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Wednesday, March 04, 2026

Do we need AI-optimized resumes?

The Verge: With AI-backed hiring on the rise, tips for “hacking” your resume are all over social media. As job search companies increasingly rely on artificial intelligence to sort through applications, job seekers wonder how to best position themselves with those filters in mind.

1 comment:

Maxwell Hamilton said...

All this talk about optimizing your resume really makes me question just how authentic the job world is becoming. At this point most companies don't even have a human looking at your resume in the first place, it will be a computer, and I think that lack of connection between human to human is exactly why most places at this point don't even hire from applications posted online. Because it has gotten to the point that most applications you submit might even be from an AI, it's just AI to AI now. I've become more and more of an advocate for just reaching out to people personally, and just talking to them, reach out to alumni of your college or program. More than likely they are people who have been in the exact same situation as you, and will have some sort of knowledge on a pathway that you can take to get work. They want to help people, in the same way that they most likely where helped by someone else.