[RugnirViking]

great question. The alternative is not accepting 1000 applicants. Nobody said you have to keep up your job posting for two weeks, or two hours for that matter. stop once you have enough. Enough is defined by whatever number you would have filtered to. In the rare case none of the first ten applicants were appropriate, just open it again until youve got another tranche.

[jarito]

You are assuming quality applicants are evenly distributed in terms of time of application - they aren’t. If you cut off at 100, you will only get a sample of people spewing fully automated application bots which mostly aren’t what you want.

[MichaelDickens]

If that's true, then it suggests an easy fix: leave your application up for four hours, then discard all applications you get for the first two.

[Arodex]

That's just another type of randomness (who was online during the short time the posting was opened).

[Xirdus]

"Being online during the short time" heavily favors bots. In a way, AI screening tools saved us from the future of everybody buying resume-spamming-as-a-service because it became as important to use these as getting a college degree.

[RugnirViking]

right. But if you go online and look for a job, then the ones you are available at that moment will actually read your application

[sevenzero]

At least this would not force applicants to fine tune their applications to the latest LLM bullshit bingo.