IHR
10 February 2026
AI
Finding real talent in the age of AI applications
Application volumes are exploding and AI is accelerating the flood. Some organisations are seeing application numbers rise by over 100% year on year, with an average increase of 43%, turning every vacancy into a high-volume challenge. Roles that once attracted a few dozen candidates now regularly receive 250–2,000 applications, many of them AI-generated.
In this session, we broke down the gold standard for modern screening: how to cut