Tagged “ai”
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The Recorded Interview With No Interviewer
A one-way video interview gives you a prompt, a timer and nobody to read. What the format can assess, what it cannot, and how to prepare for it.
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Using AI as a Mock Interviewer, and Where It Misleads You
A chat model can generate your likely interview questions and make you answer them out loud. It cannot tell you whether your answer was true or good.
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If an Interviewer Asks Whether You Used AI
Someone asks, in the room, whether AI wrote your resume or cover letter. What the question is usually after, and how to answer it straight.
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Facts and Prose: Which Resume Fields AI Can Touch
Split your resume into fixed facts and editable prose. AI can help with one and should never be allowed to rewrite the other.
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When an AI Summary Promotes You
Generated resume summaries inflate seniority because nothing anchors them. How to spot the promotion and write a summary the dates below can support.
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Where AI-Drafted Resume Bullets Drift From the Truth
AI resume drafts fail in predictable directions: scope creep, ownership creep, invented specifics and borrowed vocabulary. Here is how to spot each one.
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Build a Facts File Before You Open an AI Tool
Assemble a private record of dates, titles and outcomes before any AI drafts your resume, so every generated line has something true behind it.
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The Short Answer on Letting AI Draft Your Resume
Yes for phrasing, no for remembering, and never for deciding what this employer wants. The one-page version of a longer answer.
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Which of the Three Resume Problems Do You Actually Have?
People asking whether AI should write their resume have one of three problems. A drafting tool solves one of them and makes the other two worse.
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Cover Letter Examples Teach the Half That Matters Least
An example can show you form, and form is the cheap part of a cover letter. What examples cannot contain, and how to read one without absorbing it.
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Test a Resume Prompt Before You Trust It With Your History
You cannot judge a prompt by reading it. Run it on material whose truth you already know, then score what came back that you never put in.
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The Best Resume Prompt Is Mostly Your Own Notes
A prompt you can copy from a list is missing the part that does the work. What a usable resume prompt is made of, and what only you can put in it.
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What AI Doesn't Know About the Employer You're Writing To
You check AI claims about yourself because you know the truth. Claims about the company are the blind spot — and they arrive in every generated letter.
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Don't Feed Your Resume to a Cover Letter Prompt
Paste your resume and ask for a cover letter and you get your resume in sentences. Why that happens, what to supply instead, and how to audit the overlap.
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Using AI Across a Whole Application, Not Just the Resume
One application is four or five documents making the same claims. Drafting each with AI separately produces contradictions no single review catches.
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Asking for a Resume Rewrite: Get the Unit Right
"Rewrite my resume" is the wrong unit of work. Why rewrites should be requested one line at a time, and how to diff the result for smuggled content.
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Tailoring a Resume With AI: Re-Emphasising vs Acquiring
Given your resume and a job posting, a model's instinct is to close the gap between them. Only one way of closing it is honest. How to tell them apart.
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Can ChatGPT Create a Resume When You Have Nothing to Paste?
Starting from no resume at all is the one case where AI has nothing of yours to work with — so everything it returns is invention. What to do instead.
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Driving an AI Session on Your Resume, Turn by Turn
Most AI resume advice covers what to ask. This covers the session: one task per chat, why revision four beats nothing, and when to start over.
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Can ChatGPT Write a Resume? Split the Job Into Six Parts
It can write resume prose. Writing a resume is six separate jobs, and prose is one of them. Which parts a language model can do, and which it cannot.