Nikhar Arora - YourStory

As featured in YourStory

In a recent Nikhar Arora YourStory op-ed, the Arya by Mentoria co-founder argues that the old career advice of "apply to more jobs" no longer works, because a generic application sent to fifty roles performs worse against a recruiter's keyword search than a tailored one sent to five. He also pushes back on the popular claim that ATS systems auto-reject 75% of resumes, tracing it to a defunct 2012 marketing stat with no real research behind it, and points instead to the more mundane problem: recruiters running literal keyword searches across hundreds of applications, where strong candidates get missed simply for not matching the exact phrase a recruiter typed.

The piece's sharpest turn is about what happens next: as recruiters increasingly use AI to screen and rank applicants too, an AI-written application meeting an AI-driven filter risks making the whole system noisier, not better, unless the tools on both sides are built to optimise for fit rather than volume.

Read the full Nikhar Arora YourStory piece here: YourStory.