There’s plenty of advice about how to make your CV stand out when it’s reviewed by hiring managers, but what about the AI that pre-screens job applications these days?
Can anything be done in face of such advanced technologies?:
The time of spending hundreds of man-hours filtering through thousands of CVs and online job-board profiles for new employees is coming to an end. For example, ideally, a company, specializing in AI recruiting services, claims on their blog and estimates their AI candidate sourcing algorithm can “reduce time to hire from 34 days to 9 days”. This is a 73.53% increase in candidate sourcing and on boarding efficiency utilizing a non-biased process that removes stereotypes from sourcing and finds candidates that are technically appropriate for the position.
Assuming these AI systems work the same way as other AI systems in the wild, they are equivalent to subtracting points for “bad” keywords, adding points for “good” keywords and then summing up the result. Of course to qualify for “AI” it must be all hidden in a black box.
The good news is that no AI can tell the difference between experience you claim to have and experience that just happens to be mentioned in your resumé. This leaves a lot of space for creative AI enrichment of the resumé. To remain competitive in the AI age, I have created a little tool to insert invisible positive keywords to my CV, so that the pre-screening AI would like it. Try it for yourself on your PDF file:
If you can run this through the screening and see the score, let me know which phrases are the best. I’d like to improve the invisible text with some real-life feedback, so let me know how it worked for you.
FAQ
- Does this upload my file to your server?
- No. I don’t collect any data about the tool’s usage or files processed.
- How can I check the text was inserted?
- Open the enriched PDF, Ctrl-A Ctrl-C copy the contents, paste it to a text editor and see if the extra text is there. Another way is to search for the extra text in the opened PDF file.
- Does this guarantee a job?
- This version does not. The next version, powered by AI, surely will.