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Your CV is not fit for the 21st century – time to get it up to scratch {dealing with AI}
The Register (UK) ^ | 11 Aug 2025 | Dominic Connor

Posted on 08/12/2025 8:42:23 AM PDT by Salman

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Instead of having to dumb it down for some HR drone, you need to dumb it down to the HR drone's automated replacement.
1 posted on 08/12/2025 8:42:23 AM PDT by Salman
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CV?................


2 posted on 08/12/2025 8:43:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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fancy word for ‘resume’


3 posted on 08/12/2025 8:45:00 AM PDT by wny (s)
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To: Salman

In a way this is nothing new. Long before HR reps had AI it was still advisable to write resumes with key words (search tags) to be picked up by HR reps doing word filters.


4 posted on 08/12/2025 8:45:46 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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“fancy word for ‘resume’”

So true it’s so silly. Having seen some examples of legal briefs and opinions written using AI., it’s really something dumb to use for writing a resume that you can do yourself. All you need is a model to fit the parts into.


5 posted on 08/12/2025 8:47:45 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: Salman

AI is NOT artificial intelligence (yet).

It is still just software.

Sophisticated software, that is an adaptable language association modeling program, but the adaptive part is still just a part of the code. If you need to spoon feed it the associations, apparently it’s still “learning”


6 posted on 08/12/2025 8:49:00 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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It’s good for the first draft that you can tweak. I would even suggest running it through several models, maybe using ChatGPT first, then taking it and running it through Claude.


7 posted on 08/12/2025 8:50:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Recently I was given a batch of 10 resumes to review and decide which ones to interview. Nothing unusual there. Two of the resumes appeared to me to be written by AI. I immediately put them in the reject list.

Why did I reject them? Because I’m not going to interview or hire the AI. So what do I care what it has to say?


8 posted on 08/12/2025 8:51:02 AM PDT by irv (#NoSecretRulers )
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To: Red Badger

Curriculum Vitae


9 posted on 08/12/2025 8:51:07 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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What we call a ‘Resume’.............


10 posted on 08/12/2025 8:54:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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If uploading documents, you can hide the AI text within it, either as hidden text or as white text in tiny font size.

The search bot locates the resume by finding the hidden keywords, but the hiring authority only sees the intended text.

11 posted on 08/12/2025 9:01:47 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Recruiters generally don’t know how to recruit.
Interviewers generally don’t know how to interview.
Managers generally don’t know how to manage.

This is the state of the workplace today.

Having AI write your resume so that AI can assess your resume is just more indication that the humans in the equation will have no idea what’s going on. This is why so much of the world is going to crap.


12 posted on 08/12/2025 9:01:56 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The list of things I no longer care about is long. And it's getting longer.)
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To: Salman

Curriculum vitae


13 posted on 08/12/2025 9:03:59 AM PDT by peggybac (“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” - Ayn Rand)
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My problem with AI is it’s like using one of the early GPS units that could easily cause me to end up in a farm field.


14 posted on 08/12/2025 9:07:11 AM PDT by libstripper
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Good point. Also if you’re looking for a decent writer, AI keeps you from knowing the person’s skills.


15 posted on 08/12/2025 9:10:33 AM PDT by libstripper
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but the hiring authority only sees the intended text.
= = =

But if the hiring authority uses some bot to read it???

Will that see it??


16 posted on 08/12/2025 9:10:36 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: libstripper

ended up in a farm field recently with GPS latest tech.

Do not rely on AI


17 posted on 08/12/2025 9:12:00 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Scrambler Bob

Possibly, but if they download the PDF for example, the hidden text or white text won’t show.


18 posted on 08/12/2025 9:16:06 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: libstripper

That’s why it’s good to have strategies to check and validate the output, running it through several different models is one approach.


19 posted on 08/12/2025 9:18:58 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: wny

I thought CV was some sort of foreign car.


20 posted on 08/12/2025 9:19:22 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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