Companies don't look at their applications
I used to work for a software / recruiting company that was working with some of the biggest tech startups but also some small < 10-person teams. Almost every company we spoke with had basically stopped looking at their applications since the launch of ChatGPT. Too many candidates using AI to create fake applications and spamming them to hundreds of different places. And their AI they used to filter on their side wasn't good enough, so they just gave up. Basically now just hire by internal referrals or using staffing agencies.
I feel like job boards aren't a great solution to the problem on either end because it just creates more areas for spam and worthless applications, and if you're putting actual effort into your applications, you're never going to get seen. The company I was working for was trying to build software where you made one profile and if you applied to one company, other companies in the network could see your profile too. So basically tons of ppl apply to big companies that aren't looking that often, but the smaller companies that actually do need to hire people can see all of the people looking for jobs as well. That model is hard because they served so many different kinds of jobs and there wasn't enough of each kind of role on the platform. But wondering if something like that model would work if it was focused on just one kind of job (like just restaurant servers or somthing).
Curious to hear people's experiences with job boards and what people think the solution actually is.