Tried using AI to write my resume and got rejected 20 times

I fed my work history into one of those AI resume builders and got zero callbacks after 3 weeks. A recruiter friend told me the language was too generic and robotic. Has anyone else noticed AI-written resumes getting ignored?

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max_brown4d ago

Wait, did you read the study about hiring managers rejecting AI resumes in 3 seconds?

beth2764d ago

Used to think AI was the way to go for everything, including resumes. But man, I sent out like 15 applications with a ChatGPT generated one and got nothing but silence. A friend in HR looked at it and said it sounded like a robot wrote a love letter to a job description. She told me hiring managers spot that generic tone in seconds. Totally changed my mind. Now I just write mine from scratch, keep it super straightforward, and actually get interviews. The AI stuff is great for ideas but not for the final product.

brianm664d ago

Oh totally @max_brown that study makes so much sense now. I had basically the same experience as you beth, spent a weekend pumping out resumes with ChatGPT thinking I was being smart and efficient. Then I sent them to a buddy who does recruiting and he just laughed. Said it reads like every other resume on his desk, same buzzwords, same sentence structures. Its crazy how fast that stuff loses its edge when everyone uses it. I still use AI to brainstorm bullet points or rewrite a sentence thats giving me trouble, but the final version has to come from your own brain with your actual words. Thats what hiring people want to see, your voice not some robots idea of what a perfect candidate sounds like.

ward.jamie4d ago

Totally disagree. If your AI resume sounds robotic, you're using it wrong. I spent time teaching ChatGPT my actual work history and voice, and got way more callbacks than when I wrote them myself.