Posted on 08/12/2025 8:42:23 AM PDT by Salman
The job market is queasy and since you're reading this, you need to upgrade your CV. It's going to require some work to game the poorly trained AIs now doing so much of the heavy lifting. I know you don't want to, but it's best to think of this as dealing with a buggy lump of undocumented code, because frankly that's what is between you and your next job.
Why AI should write your CV
A big reason for that bias in so many AIs is they are trained on the way things are, not as diverse as we'd like them to be. So being just expensively trained statistics, your new CV needs to give them the words most commonly associated with the job you want, not merely the correct ones.
That's going to take some research and a rewrite to get it looking like those it was trained to match. You need to be adding synonyms and dependencies because the AIs lack any model of how we actually do IT, they only see correlations between words. One would hope a network engineer knows how to configure routers, but if you just say Cisco, the AI won't give it as much weight as when you say both, nor can you assume it will work out that you actually did anything to the router, database or code, so you need to explicitly say what you did.
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Pet peeve about modern journalism and writing in general. Acronyms, even common ones, should be defined at first usage. Not doing so is evidence of a sloppy writer.
That’s a useful hack.
I am looking forward to all the wonderful achievements AI will invent for my resume.
I don't think the British will ever learn proper English.
I see plainly how you thought that. All British cars are Crappy Vehicles.
I first saw it in a resume writing guide years ago.
Yes, they talk funny.................
So many articles being posted with anagrams that have all sorts of meanings.
It used to be that the first use of an anagram was spelled out right behind it.
“It used to be that the first use of an anagram was spelled out right behind it.”
Acronym. Yes. Correct usage is to spell out the first instance it’s used.
Speaking in acronyms. Young people and the military. Just say it!
Everyone knows CV stands for ... Completely Venereal.
Is that true in a technical manual, or is an appendix the preferred method?
Would you like to edit technical documentation?
It’s annoying.
“It” is an undefined pronoun reference.
Then spell it out the first time.
Not all of us are hep cats to the inside lingo, cool kitty.
Young people do that a lot, use letters just to p*** me off. dag nabit.
I’m beginning to hate texting. Everything is being turned into an acronym. What is a CV?
Curriculum vita. CV has Ben around for many years .in US refers to an academic resume
Oh, I see. You don’t like the glossary approach. I really could not figure out what you were complaining about. In a technical manual, most readers already know the acronyms. Spelling each one at first use is going to lengthen and clutter the text. Technical writing has is own needs, and isn’t always friendly to newbies.
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