A Different AI Writer, a Different Shortlist
TL;DR for operators An AI recruitment screener can change which applicants advance even when their CVs and job descriptions remain unchanged. The model used to write each cover letter can influence the evaluator’s scores and candidate rankings. In a controlled study by Pagan and colleagues,1 the most adverse pooled writer pairing produced 7.3 additional percentage points of simulated shortlist displacement, equivalent to approximately 1.8 of 25 initially higher-ranked candidates. This was displacement beyond a same-writer baseline, not an observed hiring-error rate. ...