Should Job-Seekers Stop Using AI to Write Their Resumes? (yahoo.com)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/02/23/0531210/should-job-seekers-stop-using-ai-to-write-their-resumes
- Source link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/employers-job-seekers-ai-r-123748521.html
> Job seekers are turning to AI to help them land jobs more quickly in a tough labor market.... Employers say that's having an unintended consequence: Many applications are looking and sounding the same...
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> It's easy to spot when candidates over-rely on AI, some employers said. Oftentimes, executive summaries will look eerily similar to each other, odd phrases that people wouldn't normally use in conversation creep into descriptions, fancy vocabulary appears, and someone with entry-level experience uses language that indicates they are much more senior, they added. It's worse when they use auto-apply AI tools, which will find jobs, fill out applications and submit résumés on the candidate's behalf, some employers said. Those tend to misinterpret some of the application questions and fill in the wrong information in inappropriate spots. If these applications were evaluated alone, employers say they'd have a harder time identifying AI usage. But when hundreds of applications all have the same issue, they said, AI's role in it becomes obvious.
The article acknowledges that some employers could be using AI tools to screen resumes too. One job-seeker in Texas even says he'll stop submitting an AI-written résumé when the recruiter stops using AI to evaluate them. "You're saying, 'You shouldn't be doing this' when I know a good chunk of them do this!"
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Damn right. (Score:2)
> One job-seeker in Texas even says he'll stop submitting an AI-written résumé when the recruiter stops using AI to evaluate them.
You can't cry about AI usage when you're the one using it without being a massive hypocrite. If you're a massive hypocrite, why should anyone give a flying fuck what you think?
Re: Damn right. (Score:2)
Following that logic, the employer should be fine with an AI-supported application that addresses XYZ. But you're missing the point. The point is that if you ask people to do a certain job without a certain tool because you want them to be able to work without that tool, then use that tool yourself to evaluate how they performed, then you signal that you cannot work without that tool yourself and you should not expect to be taken seriously.
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I haven't seen using no AI being a requirement in the job offers talked about here.
IF that is part of the job then indeed using AI to create your resume is a pretty stupid idea.
However, if it's not a requirement then I'd say I don't understand the article... Everything starts sounding tye same? Good! Filter those out. Find the ones you are unsure whether AI was used. Follow up on those.
Responsible use of AI is like using your friend's class notes to learn. Irresponsible use is like handing in a copy of your
AI is for us only (Score:2)
You peasants shouldn't use AI. Only we are allowed to filter your applications using AI
You should never have AI write your resume for you (Score:3)
You should never have AI write your resume for you, but you sure as heck should ask it, what improvements woudl you recommend and why. You should also ask a few human beings that same question.
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I've started getting those automatic AI suggestions from google for "improving" my writing in emails. It really wants to turn my writing into bland American corporate slop.
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Looking for a job can be pretty soul destroying, especially when a lot of the rejections are done by AI. That's why people turn to AI to do the application for them.
It's one of the few times where I might actually want an AI agent working for me, along with trying to buy a house. If my AI could sift through all the crap it would make my life a bit better. Of course the problem is that the employment agencies and house sale sites will just enshittify even more in response.
Honestly if they can't be assed to write a resume. (Score:2)
... why should I assume they'll actually put any work into work?
On the other side, if the potential employer uses AI to screen the applications, why should I want to work there?
Re: Honestly if they can't be assed to write a res (Score:2)
No way. There are so many people submitting 1,000 job postings every day that practically every position gets flooded.
Maybe candidates ARE similar. (Score:2)
Or maybe the hiring methods need to change too? They never were perfect.
non AI using applicants got the job (Score:2)
The two most recent hires who's process I was involved with both clearly didn't use AI. Technician level, we didn't mind the few minor spelling errors that gave away clearly they'd written their texts themselves. Some spelling errors should have been flagged by their word processor, so at engineering level, their applications would possibly have been out. But none of these winding, tiring phrases that say little more than look how I'm pretending to have an academic background.
yes stop it (Score:2)
your a moron e
expose yourself and be honest because your hiring manager is a moron as well
network effect
JJ
Auto apply tool that works? (Score:2)
What auto apply tool for jobs actually works properly? I’ve looked at them and they all seem buggy.
Expectations for the Job ... (Score:2)
Should Job-Seekers Stop Using AI to Write Their Resumes?
If they are to be expected to use AI in their jobs ( which is invariably going to be the case ) - shouldnt Job Seekers demonstrate an aptitude for using it ?
Cant have it both ways....
I'm not sure AI made that much difference (Score:2)
I've seen a lot of resumes over the past few decades. I've *always* found many, many of them to be very formulaic, structured on top of particular templates, using very similar phrasing and what-not.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, typically the worst offenders were "applying up" - meaning they weren't really qualified for the position they applied for.
So while TFS indicates that AI is perhaps exacerbating this practice even more... it's not exactly a new thing.
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Whenever I see the words "passionate", "proactive", "results driven", "team player" etc on a CV I want to barf and if I'm vetting them they head for the bin.
An assault on reality (Score:2)
AI is crossing a sort of digital Rubicon, in that its engaging in an outright assault on objective reality.
It *seems* clever to use AI to screen resumes. Then AI gets democratized and the candidates are using it. So the AI screening gets amped up, no AI submissions. And all the while the Anthropic "agent employees" are moving in for the kill. The slop benefits the machine, not the meat.
This happened on Xitter from 2022 to 2024. It had been insanely toxic for years, but the arrival of automation was really o
Everything changes, everything stays the same (Score:2)
As ever, you want your CV to stand out. Don't use AI; it will stand out a mile from all the CVs that begin "In today’s interconnected world, ..."
meh (Score:2)
Depends heavily on the sort of job you are going for and how much you get it to do. I have seen so many resumes that were desperately in need of someone or an AI to help them rewrite it. AI is just another useful tool like a spelling or grammar checker, when used appropriately it is beneficial. Used inappropriately it might get you one step further in the process but it is generally not going to land you the job.
Weed them out. (Score:2)
hahaha. I filter candidates by detecting AI use, so yes, Job applicants should let AI write their resume so we can weed them out better.
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I see nothing positive in your behavior.
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I do. A CV / Resume allows a potential employer get a sense of a person. Their interests, education, skills, experience. The way it is worded and its length gives information about their presentation skills and literacy. If someone is so lazy and dishonest that they'll have an AI write it, then may as well assume they're like that in other things. And possibly illiterate. And possibly incapable of even speaking English. How much of the CV is even true? Who knows? If I suspected a CV was written by an AI, I'
Resumes: have they been "Solved"? (Score:2)
Unless AI goes away somehow Resumes are probably going the way of college essays as homework.
Instead there will be cold, hard databases from data brokers, there will be your portfolio and your solo-projects to show off, and most importantly of all, school friends or your dad's bro's company hiring you just because. Also, perhaps, something like Palantir will furnish anyone who wants it a social credit score, keeping track of how many times you go to church and what porn you watch.