Company manager tested the job posting his team couldn’t fill — his own resume was auto-rejected by their AI bot in 6 minutes
'The CV of the person who wrote the job description and brother, I was auto-rejected in six minutes!'
If you have been applying to jobs and keep getting rejected, there's a high chance it's not your fault. Ram T, Founder and Managing Director of DataSyy, took to LinkedIn on August 12, 2026, to explain why they haven't found the "perfect candidate" to fill their "Senior Associate" role. He works at a "specialist SAP Manufacturing and AI solutions" company. To figure out the issue, he "applied" to the job he wrote himself and was stunned when he did not clear it.
'Not you, it's them'
Ram T addressed job applicants in his post, assuring them that if they got instant rejections, "That's not you – that's the bot." He explained his dilemma: "I lead a team of nine. We've had a desperate need for a senior associate role since April, and HR keeps telling me the pipeline was thin, nothing passing screening." He decided to apply for the job himself to see what the issue was. In July, he used a fake email and a fake name, but used his real CV, and was still rejected within six minutes. He was obviously competent for the role, but their "bot" didn't think so. He wrote in disbelief, "The CV of the person who wrote the job description and brother, I was auto-rejected in six minutes!"
Punctuation problems
It took Ram T an entire week to understand the problem. He explained, "The filter was set to require React.js and my CV says React. That's it. That's the whole thing. A full stop." Several capable applicants had been rejected since April, all because of "punctuation." He was made to believe the "market was tough," when the real issue was how he wrote the name of the JavaScript. He concluded, "If you've been getting instant rejections from places you're clearly qualified for, it is very possibly not you."
AI at work
In the age of AI, almost every company uses it for hiring purposes. A study by Jiannan Xu, Gujie Li, and Jane Yi Jiang found that 23% to 60% of applicants who used the same LLM as the employer had a higher chance of being shortlisted compared to "human-written" resumes. A report from 2025 Talent Trends, SHRM, revealed that 66% of HR used AI to generate job descriptions. 44% used it to review or screen resumes, and 31% used AI to customize job postings to a specific group of applicants. One small error cost them months of searching for the right candidate.
Groq founder Jonathan Ross, during the 31st annual New York Sohn Investment Conference, held on May 12, 2026 said, "AI likes to use AI... Recruiters are now using LLMs to determine who to interview. So, you should build one resume with Claude or Opus 4.7 and one with ChatGPT, and you’ll have the highest probability of being selected, basically."
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