Somewhere between clicking “submit” on a job application and hearing anything back, a decision is increasingly made without a person in the room. A model reads your CV, scores it, ranks it against others, and passes a shortlist up the chain — or quietly filters you out before a recruiter ever sees your name. It is sold as the fair option: tireless, consistent, free of the gut-feel prejudice that dogs human hiring. The evidence, gathered over nearly a decade now, points the other way. Automated h...