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[quote=Anonymous]OP:  Please take a moment to think about your ideal job candidate and consider how that person might deal with your job application process.

The ideal candidate is likely highly competent, experienced, currently employeed, and capable enough to work anywhere.  Unless your company's name is Amazon or Google, he doesn't need your job and isn't going to put forth significant effort to apply.  He doesn't want to work for a company that uses AI resume screening, and isn't going to spend the time to do "homework" assignments for a job.  Contrast this with a desperate candidate who needs a job badly, and is likely to go to any amount of effort to apply.

Given this, you should absolutely throw away resumes with AI-bait or AI-generated content.  I do this (we have actual humans who read resumes).  But don't turn your candidate search into an exercise in following dirctions.  A confident, well-qualified candidate won't spend hours on a cover letter because candidates like that don't need to do it.  You can and should throw away applications with other companies' names in the cover letter (that is just sloppy), but a low-effort application is fine.  Unless you are hiring typesetters or proofreaders, one or two small errors should not invalidate the applicant.

Lots of people apply to jobs where they meet some, but not all, of the stated qualifications.  This is normal and expected, since the perfect candidate rarely exists.  If your qualifications really are firm, then you need to state this in the job listing.

If you really want to turn this into an exercise in following directions, then expect that your process will result in selecting the least desirable candidates.

None of this really has to do with the sex of the applicants, although your job listing may attract more men because of the type of position.[/quote]

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