Recruiters are using AI avatars to run interviews. Now candidates are sending avatars to attend them.

Job candidates are now sending AI avatars to attend first-round interviews, often to mask limited English skills, while recruiters increasingly use AI avatars to conduct those same interviews. With 91% of US hiring managers encountering AI-generated interview responses and Gartner projecting one in four candidate profiles will be fake by 2028, employers are retreating to mandatory in-person rounds, potentially shutting out international applicants who rely on remote access.