Employ report says AI-polished resumes are stressing recruiters
What happened
A new Employ report finds that AI is both helping and hurting hiring. Recruiters report that AI-polished resumes look so similar they make it harder to distinguish candidates. Nearly 70 percent of recruiters are feeling the strain. Workera, recently acquired by Pearson, is piloting an AI platform that lets companies evaluate and train employees on skills.
Why it matters
If you use AI to write your resume, you may blend in with every other applicant doing the same thing. The report suggests that human connection, paired with AI tools, still matters in hiring. Job seekers should use AI to improve clarity but keep personal details that make them stand out.
Who's doing it
Employ published the report on AI in hiring. Workera, acquired by Pearson, is piloting a dynamic AI skills platform for companies to evaluate and train workers.
Try it
- Open a free AI writing tool such as ChatGPT and paste your current resume with the prompt 'Suggest improvements to clarity and formatting.' Review the suggestions but do not accept all of them blindly.
- Keep at least three personal details that only you can provide, such as a specific project result or a unique skill you learned on the job.
- Ask a trusted friend to read your resume for five minutes and tell you what makes you memorable. If they cannot say, add one concrete achievement with a number or outcome.
Read the original at zdnet.com
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The Yinzer BS detector
So everybody uses AI to write the same resume and nobody stands out. Real shocker there, n'at. Used to be yinz just lied about your GPA and that was that.
Karen what's the catch
SEVENTY percent of recruiters are stressed and nobody is asking what happens to my personal details when I paste my resume into one of these tools? WHO is storing that data?
The Boss hype translator
This is actually a paradigm shift in candidate optimization. Everyone leverages AI to achieve resume parity, which is consultant-speak for looking identical to every other jagoff applying.
The Professor
The Employ report surveyed recruiters, not job seekers, so the 70 percent figure reflects recruiter perceptions of strain, not a measured decline in hire quality.