There seem to be new stories everyday which talk about the advances in A.I.
Just recenly, a billionaire mentioned that A.I. would make hundreds of millions of people jobless–you can read that article on the NY Post.
But what about using A.I. to help you find work? We’ve already covered in many different articles how companies are using A.I. to find talent–this extends to job posting sites, screening resumes using A.I. and also posting fake jobs to harvest resumes for future work.
However, those are all things that companies are doing….what about the job seeker? How can the job seeker use A.I. to craft a good resume that will land them a job?
Is it even wise for you to use A.I. to write a resume or could that lead to problems once it is reviewed by a emoployer?
All important things to consider, especially if you are applying to jobs on sites like Indeed or ZipRecrutier where you will be applying along with hundreds or thousands of other applicants.
If you’re working with a recrutier on higher end corporarte roles, my advice would be to be very mindful of using A.I. to craft a resume as it will come under more scrunity.
What Sort of People Would Benefit from an A.I. Created Resume?
The first thing to do is to consider the type of roles that you’re applying for. Some industries would benefit from using an A.I. assist when creating a resume.
A good rule of thumb to use is that the higher level the role, the more responsiblty required in the position, the less likely it is that you’ll benefit from an A.I. driven resume.
Why? Well, the main reason is that once you start intervewinig for roles in the private sector, especially those which require a lot of responsibility, the more scrunity that your resume is going to recieve.
For lower level roles: think basic adminstrative work, non-profit case managers, and medical work, there is much less scrunity on the part of the hiring manager.
Because roles in the lower tier have such high turnover, more openings, and more applicants, the hiring team does not have as much time to spend reviewing each resume.
It’s not uncommon for a clerk job in a hospital to recieve 1000 applications. Needless to say, not every resume will be reviewed–and even those resumes that are exaimined are not going to be looked at closely.
However, if the role is for a chief Marketing director at a large legal services firm–then there will be fewer applicants, and the resumes will be combed over in detail by the hiring team and the recruiters working on the role.
A quick way to decide if you should use A.I. is if you are planning on using a job board like Indeed or Craigslsist. These are mass market avenues where all sorts of roles are placed.
A executive head hunter is not going to skim through a job board, they will recruiter off of LinkedIn. So, if you’re aplying for a hospital or admin role on Indeed or Craigslist, you can certainly use A.I. as the requirements for the roles you will be looking at are much less.
Sites like Indeed, for example, even have their own resume building program. This is to help people who cannot design their own resume and are not sophisticated enough to use resume programs or Word to design their own. Many applicants who are not working in the processional or corporate workspace would benefit from this.
Non-Profits and Job Centers: Already Using A.I. For Resumes
One interesting thing to take notice of is how non-profits and government based programs are already using A.I. for resume creation.
All across the country there are free services for people who are in need of resume assistance. Those services are also available online –there are many free resume builders and templates available–but for people who are not computer literate or skilled, the better option might be to seek in person help.
The case managers and other employees who work in public assistance roles used to have to hand create resume–using word processors (back in the pre-PC days!) or use Word on a computer.
Case Managers (not social workers, there is a difference) are often tasked with finding people homes and free apartments, but they are also paid to create resumes. If you’re searching for a case manager who will create a resume –then you should focus on finding a non-profit that is funded to help with jobs and employment.
A housing case manager is paid to fill out forms and find people vouchers and government funded housing, an employment case manager is the person who would create a resume.
Now, they have templates that they can use. However, many case managers use an A.I. system to generate the resume. This enables the job case manager to help more people, and also helps the resumes not all look like they were boiler plate put together.
While all Non-Profits and Government agencies use A.I., many case managers working there might use them during a particular resume service.
Here’s a list of some of the government programs, non-profits and other public access resume sources:
https://www.chipublib.org/blogs/post/career-resources-in-chicago
Last Words on A.I. Resumes
If you are someone who is working in the corporate world, and most of your time job searching is spent on LinkedIn, then it would be a risky idea to use an A.I. generated resume.
However, if you’re using a job board like Indeed, Monster, or Craigslist to send out job applications–or if you’re applying to work as a Nurse in a large hospital–then you might want to consider an A.I. resume. The odds are that you’re dealing with huge systems and most of the talent acquisition team doesn’t read the entire resume. A.I. can create a detailed resume, include the important keywords, and pass the test.
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