Use AI to read the CV, keep the interview human
The pitch for AI interviewers is time. A role pulls in a pile of applications, nobody has a spare week, and a bot that will talk to every applicant sounds like relief.
Candidates are not enjoying it. Charlie Maclean told RNZ about being interviewed by an AI agent. Her answers were timed.
"You're not really able to take a second to think mid-sentence, because it will just assume that you're finished and then cut you off and on to the next bit."
It was nothing like connecting with a potential employer face to face, she said, and the company then ghosted her. That is one person's experience, not a survey. But it describes what a tool built for the employer's convenience can feel like from the other chair.
The interview was never the real problem. The pile was. But this also isn’t an unusual pile. A randome sample of 29 roles one job hunter applied for on Seek recently that showed an applicant count, the middle one had about 125 applicants and the biggest had 621. 621 applicants, for one job.
applicants for one marketing role
who were a potential fit, as one recruiter told us
A bot that talks to all 127 is a very expensive way to find the 5.
Fix the pile first
On EMeetE, AI reads every CV in full against your job description and gives each candidate a score out of 100 with a plain-language reason. The relevant people come first, so your time goes on a shortlist, not a stack. It doesn't run interviews and it doesn't reject anyone. Every employer is validated by a person at EMeetE, and every hiring decision stays with one.
That leaves the interview as what it should be: a person talking to someone who already looks like a fit, with time to think and time to ask you questions back. That is half of what an interview is for.
THE SHORT VERSION
Use AI to do the reading. Keep the talking for people.
If you list a role on EMeetE, share the link anywhere you'd share a Seek or Trade Me ad: your own site, a message, LinkedIn. Whoever opens it can sign up and apply.
Sources: RNZ reporting by Mary Argue, via the NZ Herald (October 2026); recruiter figure from a conversation with a recruiter (also used in the published "AI was meant to fix job hunting" post).