Essex recruitment expert says "rapid increase" in AI generated CVs will decrease chances of finding a job
Teresa Wilson from Brook Street says people are "relying on AI"
A recruitment expert from Canvey Island says that she is seeing a "rapid increase" in the use of AI generated CVs.
She has warned that heavy use of AI can decrease the chances of getting a job, and says that it should only be a tool to assist.
Teresa Wilson says that AI CVs are "too professional" and "too polished", and often lack the human element.
She said:
"We've seen a rapid increase lately in applications that have been made by AI, and we know that some individuals out there are using AI for up to 500 applications in a year and not getting anywhere.
"The challenge that you have when you use an AI generated CV is it doesn't show who you are. Employers are looking for the impact that you've had in the work that you've done previously.
"We would have gone to friends and family to help us sell ourselves. We now go to AI and it's coming through so corporate.
"You can only use it as a prompt. Make sure that you are putting those human elements to the top because it's you that the employer is looking to see.
"Your skills, your values, your behaviours will show through in that CV. But of course you can ask that AI tool to help you demonstrate your superpowers."
She said that AI should be used as a guide or structure.
"You need to make sure you scrutinise what the AI is coming back with, and put it in your language, add the elements in that you know.
"So AI is not going to know the great work that you've done on a day-to-day basis. So you need to pull that out. You need to showcase what your superpowers are across that.
"When you are seeing those CVs that come across all of the speak is very corporate, it's too polished, it's too professional. It sounds like a marketing document."