To anyone who doesn’t dream of labor, the idea of a personality hire — a person who gets jobs because they’re a fun, unique human to be around — can be a bit jarring. And there’s an idea that might be even more puzzling than the existence of personality hires: that these people can teach us valuable lessons about being hired today. It would behoove us to start thinking about the job process through the eyes of a charming, pleasant, fun, distinctly human personality hire.

Let me explain.

Statistically, today’s job market is not great. But more than that, the inevitable creep of AI has made the process of applying for jobs even more of a headache than it was before. Never has the application felt more crapshooty (and crappy), when it seems like so many recruiters and employers are using AI to sift through applicants. The idea that someone’s life-changing opportunity could all depend on the way a computer responds to a prompt feels equal parts dehumanizing and maddening.

Even more demoralizing is when you realize how fickle and faulty AI can be.

A study from researchers at Columbia Business School tested three generative AI models — GPT-3,........

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