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BusinessOct 6, 2026

Should companies be banned from using AI to screen job applications?

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We're twelve people. I don't have an HR department. I have me, doing hiring at 10pm after the actual work is done. When we posted for a customer support role last spring we got 180 applications, and I nearly cried. The screening tool we use is twenty-nine dollars a month and it surfaced three candidates I would never have found, including the woman we hired, who had a nontraditional background and no fancy degree. People debating this always picture Google. Most companies aren't Google. For a small business, the choice is AI screening or me skimming resumes while half asleep and picking whoever applied first. There's no thoughtful human process in that picture. A ban would just be a tax on small companies that can't afford recruiters, handed to them in the name of fairness.

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