Should you use AI to build your resume? 64% of hiring professionals approve

Neatly wrapping your entire professional, leadership, and extracurricular experience into one package can be nerve-wracking — especially since the resume is a key component for getting a job. Luckily, artificial intelligence (AI) can make the task more manageable, and it turns out that most hiring managers aren’t opposed to it. 

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Adobe surveyed over 500 hiring professionals and 500 job seekers in the United States to learn about the resume process. Unsurprisingly, many of the applicants surveyed have already leveraged AI in their resumes, with 28% of respondents admitting to having used AI to help write them.

This AI use case has been met with limited opposition from hiring professionals, with 64% approving of job seekers using AI for their resumes. 

Before you use AI to write your resume, it is worth noting that 13% of hiring professionals said they would automatically disqualify a resume written with AI. However, for better or for worse, there is no reliable AI checker on the market right now, so as long as you double-check for plagiarism, a hiring professional shouldn’t be able to tell. 

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Hiring professionals shared that other red flags they see on resumes include spelling or grammatical errors, lack of relevant experience or skills, too many job changes in a short period, significant unexplained gaps in employment history, and using overly casual language. 

AI can easily help users avoid these red flags. For example, a user can upload their resume into ChatGPT and ask, “Can you proofread for spelling and grammar, eliminate any overly casual language, and add skills that will make it stronger?” Then, ChatGPT will output a version tweaked with all of these components. 

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Good practices that job seekers should keep in mind include limiting their resume to one page, favored by 55% of hiring professionals; utilizing a PDF format, preferred by three out of four hiring professionals; and emphasizing unique skills, recommended by 29.68% of hiring professionals. 

For step-by-step instructions on how to use ChatGPT, or any other AI chatbot, to build your resume, ZDNET created an easy-to-follow how-to guide that you can use to get started.