In June 2024, she posted a job for a chief of staff at her company, Rising Team. The listing quickly drew over 800 applications. Dulski and her team sifted through all of them. Three were outliers.

AI-powered services like LazyApply zip through the grunt work of job applications, helping one programmer apply for 5,000 jobs. But they can make mistakes, and some recruiters scorn the technology.

Job application gamified tests: In January 2021, the management consulting firm McKinsey launched Solve, in which the company uses gamification to assess applicants’ critical thinking and ...