Yeah I&#x27;m not suggesting that the candidates are entirely innocent.  But I think the companies share a bigger portion of the blame.  If they didn&#x27;t want to get a million responses they could do things to limit their responses to people who actually <i>want</i> the job like say not allowing people to apply online, or making people apply in person, or requiring a cover letter of a certain length, or whatever.<p>But what has happened is that the companies set up these online systems to ostensibly make their own lives easier.  Candidates have responded to the environment that they live in and started resume spamming.  Companies respond by using overly-precise keyword matching to filter out candidates, despite the unsuitability.<p>It&#x27;s not as though job seekers started printing resumes by the thousands and sticking them to the door of every business in their town and the companies had to adapt to this by making online systems to reduce the crushing influx of paper.