Highlighting your work achievements and documenting your skill set can be laborious, so some job candidates to turn to artificial intelligence (AI) tools to do the job for them.
Big mistake.
Job applications written by AI have flooded the jobs market making it almost impossible for employers to pick the right person for the job.
Some jobseekers are using online platforms to apply for hundreds, if not thousands of jobs.
After wading through a sea of AI slop, employers are delighted when they read a document clearly written by a human who is hungry for the job. It shows authenticity and nous.
Telltale signs include the use of American spelling for Australian roles, countless generic terms around performance that lacks evidence in the applicants’ work history.
Some of the telltale signs that AI has written a resume are:
- Sometimes AI adds in icons around dot points.
- Generic text and explanations of the role being applied for.
- Slabs of text which read like position descriptions.
- A lack of detail explaining what the candidate brings to the role.
- Clear signs that the CV hasn’t been proofread.
The result is a recruitment system gridlocked by volume, not value.
I read AI-generated generic summaries, buzzwords and one-size-fit-all resumes all of the time. It’s a signs that AI has lent its lazy and generic hand to the creation of utter crap.
Some major recruiters use software which kills AI-generated resumes. What a time saver!
AI resumes don’t identify achievements and the benefits they bring to the role.
I see resumes full of words like ‘leveraged’, ‘spearheaded’ and ‘drove outcomes.’
There’s no clear picture of what the person actually did.
AI loves confident language. It struggles with context.
Good resumes guide the reader. Resume slop dumps information and hopes the harried recruiter, figures it out. Good luck with that.
AI cannot assess relevance or nuance. It does not understand how hiring systems and recruiters think.
Reorder content so the most relevant experience appeared first. Tightened every bullet so it earned its place.
The job market is tight at the moment, in large part due to cost-of-living pressures thanks to interest rate rises, fuel prices, Middle East war-fuelled inflation and stalling real wages growth.
In tough times, roll out the big guns: your brain, your hunger for the job and write a resume with accuracy, brevity and clarity.