Why AI Resumes Receive Negative Feedback (Part 2) - Key Word Stuffing

Why AI Resumes Receive Negative Feedback (Part 2)

Keyword Stuffing: This has been an issue for years but artificial intelligence has made the problem more automated.  Job seekers use AI to trick both the reader (recruiter / hiring manager) and the Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) by stuffing random keywords or hidden white-text "honeytraps," which modern software and human screeners easily catch and in the majority of cases, disqualify the candidate from consideration.  Let's be frank, it is unethical (cheating).

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Why AI Resumes Receive Negative Feedback (Part 1)

Why AI Resumes Receive Negative Feedback (Part 1)

For the remainder of the week, I will be publishing information about why AI-written resumes are seen as a negative my hiring manager.

Suspicious Metrics: Fabricating or over-optimizing impact numbers and keyword-stuffing that fails basic human scrutiny during interviews. Suspicious or fake resume metrics—(i.e. -perfectly round percentages like "improved efficiency by 200%" or inflated financial impact that doesn't match a candidate's seniority—are easily spotted by recruiters and AI screening tools, instantly destroying the candidate's credibility.

If actual number or percentages aren't available, describe changes, improvements in process efficiencies (e.g., reducing a daily 5-minute task to 1 minute) or the process of a sales cycle / product introduction / upgrade where your collaborative produced a positive result.

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Quote - Learning - Henry Ford

Quote - Learning - Henry Ford 

I enjoyed reading this quote. Hope all of you do as well.

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” – Henry Ford

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Questions to Ask the Recruiter During the Screening

 Questions to Ask the Recruiter During the Screening

What skills are most valuable to the hiring manager? Understanding what is the priority makes it easier for you to properly exhibit examples of compatibility. 

What does success look like in the first 90 days? (Defines the true expectations and immediate deliverables for the position.) 

What is the compensation package for this role? Ensuring that both parties are aligned saves time and energy in a process, only to eventually find out that "wish lists" are not in syn

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Screening the Recruiter

Screening the Recruiter

Be sure to take a view minutes and "screen the recruiter" who sends you an unsolicited request for a resume for a position that you are "qualified". Use Google and LinkedIn. If you cannot get any relevant information about the recruiter or agency name, do not respond. More than likely, it is for a "fake" job.

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Job Search Burnout - Stopping doing the same thing.

Job Search Burnout - Stopping doing the same thing. 

Anxiety / Stress in job searches are directly related to burnout if you are continuing down the same path with little or limited results. If you have experienced / are currently experiencing this issue, take a break, re-evaluate your strategy and tactics, make changes and launch the new strategy. You will be more productive and focused and less "burned out".

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Handling Job Burnout

Try to take action. To get started:

Evaluate your options. Discuss specific concerns with your supervisor. Maybe you can work together to change expectations or reach compromises or solutions. Try to set goals for what must get done and what can wait.

Seek support. Whether you reach out to co-workers, friends or loved ones, support and collaboration might help you cope. If you have access to an employee assistance program, take advantage of relevant services.

Try a relaxing activity. Explore programs that can help with stress such as yoga, meditation or tai chi.

Get some exercise. Regular physical activity can help you to better deal with stress. It can also take your mind off work.

Get some sleep. Sleep restores well-being and helps protect your health.

Mindfulness. Mindfulness is the act of focusing on your breath flow and being intensely aware of what you're sensing and feeling at every moment, without interpretation or judgment. In a job setting, this practice involves facing situations with openness and patience, and without judgment.

Keep an open mind as you consider the options. Try not to let a demanding or unrewarding job undermine your health.

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JOB BURNOUT

JOB BURNOUT is a special type of work-related stress — a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity.

"Burnout" isn't a medical diagnosis. Some experts think that other conditions, such as depression, are behind burnout. Researchers point out that individual factors, such as personality traits and family life, influence who experiences job burnout.

Whatever the cause, job burnout can affect your physical and mental health. More on this topic later today.

Partially sourced - Mayo Clinic

Do Companies Use AI to ID AI-generated Resumes?

Do Companies Use AI to ID AI-generated Resumes?

There are at least seven (7) software programs (likely more) that companies use to identify documents that are written by AI / ML technologies. Screening documents for machine written documents is becoming a standard operating procedure (SOP).

 

Hiring managers wants to read a resume written by a person.

The Inherent Controversy with the H1B Visa Program

The Inherent Controversy with the H1B Visa Program

Employers of workers with H1B Visas are required to pay the visa holder the "prevailing wage" for the position held, no matter the incumbent.  However, critics of the program advocate that companies widely misuse the program, compensating foreign workers less than American counterparts in similar roles, thereby lowering overall wages for American workers. 

I would like to here opinions or about experiences that any one you have read about / heard about or experienced directly about the H1B. 

Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ)

Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ)

By federal law (42 U.S. Code § 2000e-2) allows for an employer to discriminate against employees and potential employees "on the basis of his religion, sex, or national origin in those certain instances where religion, sex, or national origin is a BFOQ reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business or enterprise." For example, a bona fide occupational qualification could be made that a priest must be Catholic. Race and color, however, are never bona fide occupational qualifications. 

What the statute above does not elaborate on is that unless you are a model, actor / actress, etc., no matter good looking you may be, it is not a BFOQ for employment. In fact, many employers will automatically disqualify a candidate if a picture is on the resume.

In short, keep your picture off the resume.

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