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How do founders use AI to write JDs, screen resumes, and prep interviews?

Founders treat AI like a junior recruiter: they paste in a rough role description and get a clean job description back, ask it to compare a stack of resumes against the must-have skills for the role, and have it draft interview questions and scorecards so every candidate gets judged the same way. The newer trick is agents (like ChatGPT Work) that can browse LinkedIn profiles and summarize candidates for you, not just write text; LinkedIn's Hiring Assistant and, in India, Naukri's AI REX now source and shortlist from their own databases. The rule practitioners follow: AI drafts and organizes, but a human makes every yes/no call on a candidate.

On the AI map, 29 October 2026 Hiring and HR

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