I used AI to track my job rejections. It changed my search, and I got hired.
THE SO WHAT
Using Claude as a personal ATS and interview analyst is a micro-example of agentic workflows eating white-collar process — the job seeker built what many HR stacks still don’t deliver. For talent and sales orgs, assume candidates and prospects will increasingly run their own AI-side analytics, and upgrade your own pipeline intelligence or risk being out-instrumented by individuals.
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