Creating a professional and structured resume of your work achievements and your skills can be laborious, so some job candidates turn to artificial intelligence 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.
AI resumes use generic phrasing and lack authentically. Recruiters get hundreds of them every day and its makes them want to heave.
The reason Republic Resumes doesn’t use AI is we already work in partnership with clients – living people – who are highly motivated to get a job or promotion. AI is a robot.
In the battle against AI-powered resumes, screening tools such as Sapling AI Detector and Copyleaks are not just surface-level scanners. They delve deep into the text, identifying language patterns, flagging unnatural sentence structures, and sniffing out plagiarised content.
AI’s resumes and cover letters miss crucial and unique selling points in favour of polished, empty statements and exaggerated skills, which often contradict the applicant’s actual experience.
AI uses American terminology and spelling , lots of dashes and often repeats the same information across sections.
Recruiters don’t have time to read this crap. They want applications written by humans, who are hungry for the position.
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.
Many 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.
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 that resume with accuracy, brevity and clarity. If you need a hand, you know who to call.