‘I was reading last week about a guy who had 10 remote jobs – and he was earning more than $1.5m a year’

The gaming of online recruitment is being spurred on by AI – but one Irish tech firm is battling the fakes

Declan Murphy. Photo: Frank McGrath

John Burns

Fake CVs are now a thing, according to Declan Murphy. Cheats are using AI bots to clone the skills of other people, and then firing off hundreds, even thousands, of applications for remote-working jobs.

Surely, though, an unqualified person will never get through a company’s recruitment system? They’ll be found out at the interview stage, won’t they?