Hiring Managers and AI Generated Resumes

Hiring Managers and AI Generated Resumes

In a survey of 625 hiring managers, the following results are:

80% dislike seeing AI generated resumes and cover letters

74% indicated that they can spot AI content instantly

57% are less inclined to continue forward towards hiring a candidate if they used AI for their documents

In short, it is safe to conclude that hiring managers want resumes written by people, not machines.

(Source: Guide to Using AI for Job Applications)

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Why Hiring Managers / Recruiters Dislike Resumes Written By Robots (AI) - The Verification Gap

Why Hiring Managers / Recruiters Dislike Resumes Written By Robots (AI) - The Verification Gap

Anyone can prompt ChatGPT or other AI software to claim complex technical or leadership skills, hiring managers can no longer trust resume claims. When polish becomes meaningless, recruiters fall back on trusted signals like employee referrals and hard-to-fake metrics. 

Source: Dannielle Bradley (YouTube)

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Why AI Resumes Receive Negative Feedback (Part 3) - More About The Disjointed Interview

Why AI Resumes Receive Negative Feedback (Part 3) - More About The Disjointed Interview

The AI interview is actually a one-sided meeting dominanted by a machine.  The interviews are conducted by simple text-based chatbot pre-screenings and one-way video answers to responsive, real-time conversational AI agents that guide you through structured technical or behavioral questions.  If the candidates often cannot defend the skills, functions and/ or success stories that AI added to their resume, the chatbot will recognize the failure and disqualify the candidate.  

A horrible experience and a waste of time for all concerned.

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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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.

Summarizing Older Roles

Summarizing Older Roles

How to handle past jobs on your resume (10+ years).

You should summarize / keep brief the roles on your resume older than 10- 12 years and in most cases, omit roles that are older. 

Delete roles not related to your career

Keep jobs in the resume that show your career progression

You need to identify a balance between the skills you offer (currently used as well as past skills that could use a "brush-up" without including outdated information.

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Software Technologies That ID Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Generated Content

Software Technologies That ID Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Generated Content

For those of you writing resumes, cover letter and other business documents (text file / blocks, .docx, .pdfs) using artificial intelligence, you need to be aware that there are software tools that companies use to scan documents for the level of AI-generated content that is used to "write" the document.  Generally speaking, these tools, provide a score based on the scan.  

Now, if you are a hiring manager and you need to review resumes, regardless of ATS, do you want to bring someone in whose resume / cover letter (or both) has high instances of AI content?  I think we all know the answer.

A representative list of these technologies are:

Winston AI

GPT Zero

Originality.ai

Copyleaks

ZeroGPT

TextGuard AI

Grammarly

Phrasly AI

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Resume Format and Fonts

Resume Format and Fonts

In order to be accepted by ATS systems, when you format your resume, avoid multi-column layouts, charts, tables, pictures, logos, graphs, and text boxes.  Keep it simple - single column layout, margins between .4 and 1 inch on top, bottom and sides and stick with easy to read fonts (i.e. Calibri, Arial) sized from 9pt to 12pt (I like to go 10.5).  Stay away from Book Antiqua and Times New Roman - while easy to read, you may be a victim of ageism because these fonts are older. 

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Resume Format

Resume Format

Many of you have been told that you need to submit a visually enticing resume for the jobs that you are interested in.  Helps you stand up.  Shows more personality.

Well - that is nice to present in the interview but honestly, your resume that you submit online into web interfaces must be easy to read and easy for the software (ATS) to parse.  The document needs to be clean, in reverse-chronological order (most recent job first), with your city, state and zip (yes ZIP CODE), a headline, professional summary, key word / core competency breakout and achievements, preferably in bulleted format for each job.  Only need to go back 10-15 years (age discrimination issues) and always include any education / certifications / training.

If you want a graphically designed resume, bring it to the meeting but do not submit into a web interface.

And just as important - hiring managers can spot AI-driven resumes from a mile away.  They don't like it.  There is also software programs that scan all types of documents, including resumes to determine if it was written with AI software technologies.  

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Resumes - Inconsistent with Industry Jargon.

 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Resumes - Inconsistent with Industry Jargon.

There are plenty of reasons why you should not use an AI generated resume. I have been posting this information for the last several business days and will continue to post the issues (pro and con) about AI resumes

AI-generated content can sometimes include factual errors or phrases that don't align with the terminology used in your industry, let alone your actual experiences. Therefore, you must proofread your resume to avoid confusion / making your resume read like it was AI - written, which is a big NEGATIVE in the viewpoint of hiring managers and recruiters who want to read resumes written by people, not a robot obeying an algorithm.

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What Are the Criteria that AI Review Tools Examine

What Are the Criteria that AI Review Tools Examine

These AI tools evaluate resumes and "suggest" missing industry buzzwords and skill requirements, as listed in targeted job listings.  In addition, the tools will identify content where KPIs and other numerical / qualitative data is need to improve presentation and successes.

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Is your Resume Flawed - Reliance on Job Titles

 Is your Resume Flawed - Reliance on Job Titles

While job titles are important (I could and will write about this in coming posts), the hiring manager will likely understand the functions you perform. In short, she / he knows what sales people do, what IT project managers do, what servers do. What they want to see are your successes / accomplishments:

1. Grew account base from 10 to 30.

2. Planned and managed a $250K software migration

3. Check average per person was 20% hiring than other staff.

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Get the point?

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Resumes - Inconsistent with Industry Jargon.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Resumes - Inconsistent with Industry Jargon.

There are plenty of reasons why you should not use an AI generated resume. I have been posting this information for the last several business days and will continue to post the issues (pro and con) about AI resumes

AI-generated content can sometimes include factual errors or phrases that don't align with the terminology used in your industry, let alone your actual experiences. Therefore, you must proofread your resume to avoid confusion / making your resume read like it was AI - written, which is a big NEGATIVE in the viewpoint of hiring managers and recruiters who want to read resumes written by people, not a robot obeying an algorithm.

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Submitting AI-generated Resume Will Usually Result in Rejection

Submitting AI-generated Resume Will Usually Result in Rejection

Here is a good reason not to submit an AI written resume:

Immediate Rejection: AI tools rely on predictable language patterns, they produce generic "word salad", which will be void of your successes, your writing theme, perhaps including false claims of prowess as related to your skills.  The document will have unnatural, sometimes weird layout and format - easy for the "eyeball" and technologies designed to ID AI-generated documents.

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Another Reason Not to Use AI-Generated Resumes

Another Reason Not to Use AI-Generated Resumes

Resumes that are written with artificial intelligence (AI) software technologies will scan the job description of choice, then will do by whatever means possible to use each keyword (if all the correct language can be appropriately identified), usually in excess.  The result is content that does not read well, taken out of context and lacks any similarities of how a person would write use the written word in a normal environment, making the text clunky and unnatural.  

The sentences / phrases usually overuse the same prompts, the key words are overused and the resume will look like a job description, lacking accomplishments, not to mention requirements to pass most applicant tracking systems (ATS).

RESULT - Hiring managers can ID the origin of the documents, resulting in disqualification.

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Tailor Your Resume:

 Tailor Your Resume:

If you are relying on AI to generate your resume, remember you will need to adapt your resume to the job posting by tweaking your bullet points and skills to directly match the keywords and responsibilities listed in the job description to get past ATS scanners.

This is a fundamental that AI cannot do for you. And this is one of many reasons why you do not want to rely to write your resume (besides the fact that hiring managers can spot an AI generated resume from a mile away and often disqualify the candidate).

TikTok - Words Not to use when Writing Resumes

 TikTok - Words Not to use when Writing Resumes

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Bad Advice - Number of Years on Your Resume

  Bad Advice - Number of Years on Your Resume

Your old college pal told you that you need to have all of your career experience on your resume because employers want more experienced people for the positions they are looking to full.

SORRY - BAD ADVICE!!!

Why in the world would you say that Allan?  That makes all the sense in the world.

Well, age discrimination is real and it has nothing with your ability to do the job.  The primary issue is the hiring manager's willingness to pay you your worth. The goal of your resume is to get you in the door.  If you are 53 years old and have 30 years of sales experience, you need to remember that you are competing against younger sales professionals who, at the end of the day, demand lower compensation. Think of it like this, when was the last time you read a job posting that mentioned as a requirement - "25+ years of experience is required"?  You have not read this because this posting does not exist.

In this "what have you done for me lately world" that we live in, it is only necessary to go back 10-12 years tops for mid-level work.  Include achievements to demonstrate success.  Once you get in the interview, you can speak to culture fit and salary requirements to show that you are a good match.

Target your Resume - Look for Keywords in the Job Description

  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.