Every Résumé Looks Perfect Now. Here's How to Find the Real Candidate.

You're getting more applications than ever, and they all sound great. Clean formatting. Strong metrics. Keywords that match your job description almost word for word.

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That's the problem.

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In new research from Employ, AI-polished résumés became recruiters' number one source of stress for the first time in 19 years. At the same time, most recruiters say AI has made their jobs easier, yet fewer than 1 in 5 have actually freed up their time for higher-value work.

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So we got faster. We didn't get better at telling who can actually do the job.

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This session fixes that. You'll learn how to let AI handle the admin while you focus on the part that still needs a human: figuring out what a candidate can really do.

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What you'll walk away with

• A simple way to tell AI-assisted polish from real misrepresentation, without treating every candidate like a suspect

• Layered follow-up questions that get past rehearsed answers in a 20-minute phone screen

• How to use short work samples and structured scoring so your decisions hold up

• Where AI should be saving you time, and how to make sure it actually does

• How to set candidate AI-use guidelines that protect the candidate experience

• The free Beyond the Résumé Toolkit: a Résumé Reality Check worksheet and a depth-probe question bank

 

Who it's for

Recruiters, sourcers, TA leaders, and hiring managers in any industry who screen candidates and want better hiring decisions, not just faster ones.

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Your facilitator

Rebecca Sacks is a TA leader turned consultant who has saved organizations over $1.7 million in hiring costs and helped teams cut time to fill in half across healthcare, homebuilding, and beyond. She is the founder of Authentic Talent Edge, where she helps growing businesses fix the people systems that slow their growth.