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How Hiring Managers can Artificial Intelligence (AI) Written Resumes:
Embellished or fabricated details: AI can sometimes "hallucinate" or invent details to fill out a resume. If a hiring manager discovers false information, it can raise questions about the candidate's honesty.
Employment Gap -
Prepare an explanation that is truthful and provides an appropriate answer. If the issue was related to family illness, be sure to mention that the issues has run its course. If it was due to a layoff, speak to what you have learned during your period of unemployment and how your new understanding of your career, position, coupled with new skilled learned via professional development, make you a prime candidate.
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Keyword stuffing: While AI-powered resume builders focus on using keywords, some AI-written resumes may unnaturally and excessively cram keywords from the job description to get past ATS, a tactic easily identified by human recruiters.
Workers Are Getting Fired Over Posts Mocking Charlie Kirk’s Death
The latest events of the past week should be a lesson learned about when and where you should voice your opinions. Employers who have fired employees because of there personal opinions are not doing so because they necessarily agree or disagree. It is done because pontificating about your opinion in a business or public domain (the internet is a public domain) can be damaging to their business, esp. if the person is client facing. Internally, it can cause dissension, cliques and lowers morale.
Whatever your opinions are on issues outside the workplace, I recommend you keep them quiet, esp. in the workplace or public domain.
I learned this lesson a long time ago. It works for me. It will for you.
KEEP YOUR BUSINESS ABOUT BUSINESS and your PERSONAL ABOUT YOURSELF. Don't overlap.
Do Companies Use AI to ID AI-generated Resumes?
This question was presented by a client this morning. The answer is that companies are starting to use AI to ID resumes written by AI / Robots / Machines and not people. This practice is in the beginning stages but common sense tells me that the hiring managers wants to read a resume written by a person.
The rest of this week will be dedicated to this topic. Stay tuned.
Handling Employment Gaps - If you were furloughed / terminated / laid-off from your last job, you want to be able to handle the tough question "Why did you do during your time away from the workforce?"
During the intermittent period, enroll in professional development courses / certification classes as a means of building up important career-related skills. Attend networking events (in-person or virtual) and include your participation in your resume and / or cover letter.
By showcasing that you were not sitting home watching talk shows, you will be demonstrating to hiring managers / recruiters your dedication to career development.
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Some of you have seen this before but here it is again. Time to re-evaluate how job seekers look for job and how companies evaluate resumes. Today method of ATS does not work. Today's protocols enable the opportunity for unfit candidates to pass the parameters for qualification, which is inefficient and a waste of time, energy and resources.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/changing-way-applicants-apply-jobs-allan-brown-0rbec/?published=t
Changing the Job Search Game!
Below is an article I published that may be of interest to you.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/changing-way-applicants-apply-jobs-allan-brown-e1utc
The FEDERAL RESERVE is convening Wednesday with the intent, to lower interest rates as a means of "lowing the cost of money" and spur new job growth. This is not the cure - it is a stopgap. The job market will not fully turnaround for several months and for this to occur, the following must be resolved:
1. Clear communication about tariffs
2. Standardization concerning the definition about "remote" v "hybrid"
3. Benefits of the new tax code take shape
4. Jumpstart LEGAL immigration
5. Companies understanding how to properly integrate AI into job duties
The faltering U.S. labor market is pushing more Americans into part-time work and other roles they don’t want, and that don’t always pay the bills.
The official unemployment rate in the U.S. remains low at 4.3%. But under the surface, there are deepening signs of struggle for people looking for stable, full-time work in a time when hiring has slowed significantly.
A separate measure of unemployment, which includes people working part-time who would prefer a full-time job and people who are so discouraged they’ve stopped looking for work, is much higher. That rate hit 8.1% in August, its highest in nearly four years.
Part-time job postings LinkedIn have risen by 50% in the past three years, confirmed by internal staff.
Source: WSJ.com
Target your Resume - Look for Keywords in the Job Description
Just do not submit your resume when interested in a job your saw posted online. Analyze each job description for keywords that show what the employer is seeking as qualification and include those keywords in your resume in the "Core Strengths" (keyword section) as well as in experience and summary where relevant.
For example, if the position is for a marketing manager, an employer might list keywords like "marketing communications," "campaign management," "A/B Testing" o in the job description. Pay particular attention to anything listed in the "Requirements" or "Qualifications" sections - this will make your analysis and tweaking of your resume easier and less time consuming.
