OpenAI’s Recruiter-GPT slashes hiring times – HR layoffs follow
A Herzliya high-tech firm just cut its recruitment team from five employees to two. The reason? OpenAI’s Recruiter-GPT can scan resumes in an hour what used to take a week.
HR managers who spent hours sifting through candidates are losing ground fast. Large language models like GPT-4o now power recruitment tools like Uwi from HeroHunt.ai, automating candidate search, screening, and outreach at lightning speed. 
“By month’s end, we’re cutting the team from five to two. OpenAI’s Recruiter-GPT did in an hour what took you a week.”
— CEO, Herzliya high-tech firm
The legal sector feels it too. Real estate contract review that once took 12 hours now takes nine minutes thanks to AI. Interns’ endless overnight clause hunts? Gone. AI does it in a click, freeing lawyers for strategy and negotiation.
Routine, rule-bound jobs are vanishing first: admin staff, accountants, junior analysts, legal assistants, basic insurance agents, technical translators, recruiters, support reps.
“A municipal collections coordinator manually updating property tax spreadsheets will likely see their core role gone within a year.”
— Keren Shahar, AI lecturer and guide
On the flip side, AI is spawning new roles: ethics consultants, data verifiers, AI-video/art creators, prompt engineers, and human-machine trainers.
A 2023 Harvard Business School and Boston Consulting Group study found strategic consultants who embraced GPT-4 upped work quality by 40%. Critical use, not blind trust, is key.
“Initially, many feared it would undermine their expertise, but the most successful learned its limits. They didn’t trust it blindly, verified critical data and used it as a creative assistant for drafts and ideas while applying professional judgment.”
The message is clear: ignore AI’s creeping reach at your peril. It won’t destroy jobs overnight but is quietly reshaping work.
Try it yourself: upload your lease, job contract, or insurance policy to Claude or Gemini and spot hidden issues in minutes.
What repetitive task do you do that a machine could do tomorrow? Time to face it. Denial isn’t an option anymore.
Uwi AI recruiter (Photo: Screengrab)
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Keren Shahar is lecturer and guide in generative artificial intelligence use.
