The $61.5 billion technology company alerted Fortune to its recently updated policies. Job seekers can now refine their resumes, cover letters, and applications with AI.
But there’s a catch: They’re still barred from using it during most assessments and while they’re sitting in the interview.
The company had previously reasoned that by banning the tools, hiring managers could have a better sense of applicants’ “personal interest” and their “non-AI-assisted communication skills.”
However, Anthropic may be changing its guidelines, as in reality, it’s hard to police, gets candidates using their product, and levels the playing field—since the company uses Claude to create job descriptions, improve interview questions, run candidate communications, and more, it’s only fair that candidates can access such tools too.
Anthropic has a few rules for applicants using Claude in the hiring process: they must use the tool thoughtfully, be themselves, and be transparent. Here is where they can and can’t use AI in Anthropic’s hiring process, as the company says, to “use Claude to show us more of you”:
These updated guidelines allow more flexibility after the tools were barred from the process altogether—but candidates shouldn’t get too comfortable with the current process as it could change again. Anthropic revealed it plans to regularly review and update the policy “to reflect evolving AI capabilities.”
