4 Ways AI Sabotages Your Resume and How to Avoid Them

If you've opened Chad GPT and asked it to write your resume, you already know that it can save you hours. What a lot

of people are learning though is that a lot of AI résumés are just getting ignored. Now, there are four specific

ways that AI can sabotage a resume. I'm going to talk about all four and then I'm going to talk about how to mitigate

the risks of these sabotages. So, first, keyword stuffing. If you ask Chad GPT to make your resume more optimized, it'll

just pack in as many skills and buzzwords from the job description that it can. And this won't get you filtered

out. I mean, applicant tracking systems don't automatically reject people. That's not how they work. But to a

recruiter, a resume jammed with keywords just reads like a machine wrote it and they're going to lose interest pretty

quickly. The second risk is invention or hallucination. Now AI doesn't know you. It doesn't know you personally. So if

you enter really thin or vague work history into chat GPT, then it'll confidently fill in the gaps with skills

that you didn't claim and results that you didn't actually hit. Anything on the page has to survive the moment that a

manager asks you about it in an interview. and blindly using AI and submitting a resume can really put you

in a tough spot. The third sabotage is generic [music] output. AI drafting from a vague prompt reaches for just generic,

safe, industry standard phrasing, wording that could really describe anyone at any company working on any

project. The fourth risk or sabotage is formatting that breaks parsing. Now,

plain AI text copy and paste, that's fine on its own, but if you paste that into a resume template that has multiple

columns and graphics and text text boxes just to make it look polished. Well, that's often the exact template or

formatting that an applicant tracking system can't read. So, parts of your resume might get scrambled or dropped

before anyone sees them. [music] Now, all four of these sabotages are or risks are totally avoidable. So, let's talk

about how to use AI the right way and how to avoid these four risks. The general rule is that AI can only work

with what you give [music] it. You know, the saying is garbage in, garbage out. Well, think vague in, vague out. So,

instead of just saying write my resume, give it three specific things. One, your real experience, really detailed. The

actual job description, and clear instructions on what you want. So, here's the shape of a really strong

prompt that you can use in chat GBT, for example. I have six years of experience in customer success focused on SAS

onboarding. Here are three results I hit. Here's the job description I'm applying for. And then say, rewrite my

bullets to mirror the language in that job description. Use only the accomplishments I gave you. Keep

formatting plain. No tables, no columns. Now that prompt does four things at once. One, it grounds the AI in your

real experience. It also gives the target language that the resume or that the AI should mirror when it writes your

resume [music] and it forbids invention. It prevents any hallucination because it has enough details and it heads off

formatting mistakes before they even happen. Now, one upgrade here is instead of

asking for everything in one shot or one prompt, walk it through this process in steps. So, first, what are the top five

skills in this job description? Then, here's my resume. What are the gaps? Then, rewrite these bullets to match the

top skills using only what I gave you. You'll get sharper output because each step has a clear job that the AI can

focus on. Now, if you'd rather skip the prompt engineering entirely, Jobs Scans AI Ré

Builder handles this a little differently. It's built around a coach that interviews you one question at a

time and drafts quantified bullet points from your answers. It's a little bit different flow, but it's the same idea.

It gets your substance, its polish. I'm going to link the AI ré builder below so that you can try it out. Now,

the part that most AI ré advice skips is verifying what the AI actually gave you before you submit it. [music] And this

is where you catch all four of those risks that I talked about earlier. The keyword stuffing, the invented skills,

the generic wording, the formatting that breaks parsing in about a minute with a free scan. And I'm going to show you

what that looks like. So, if you go into job scan, paste your AI drafted resume into the résé scanner, paste the job

description text next to it, and you'll get a match report. On this match report, you'll see a match rate, you'll

see a hard skills breakdown, a soft skills breakdown, [music] and in these, you'll see every keyword from the job

description flagged as present, missing, or overused. If you drop in the URL of the job

listing from that company's website, the scanner will detect the specific applicant tracking system that company

uses and it'll give you formatting notes that are tailored to how that system actually reads résumés. And then you

just triage missing keywords that are truly in your background can become honest additions. Go back to your draft

and work them in. [music] If there are missing keywords for skills you don't have, leave them out. If a section reads

keyword heavy or robotic, rewrite it in plain language that a person would actually use. If there are formatting

flags on your job scan reports for things like tables or columns or non-standard headings, go back and fix

them. And I would recommend aiming for a match rate around 75 or higher. That's the range where your resume is genuinely

aligned with the role but not just keyword stuffed or gamed to look like it is. Now, after the scan, there's one

more pass. Read the resume out loud. If a sentence uses three adjectives where one would do, cut the other two. If a

bullet says leveraged crossf functional synergies to drive strategic outcomes, [music] rewrite it in the words that you

would actually use to describe what you did. Those AI tells, the puffy verbs, the abstract nouns, the phrases no human

actually says out loud are exactly what make a recruiter stop reading. So here's the whole loop. Draft with AI using your

real experience and the actual job description, not vague instructions. then verify it with a scan so you catch

the stuffing or the hallucinations and formatting problems and then edit [music] it so that it sounds like you.

The free scan link is in the description for Job Scan. If you want to build a resume from scratch with that code that

I talked about earlier that asks you the right questions instead of just guessing, the AI ré builder is linked in

the description, too. And our video on ATS friendly rumés is a good next watch. I'll pin that in the corner so you know

to watch that one. I hope this was helpful. Leave a comment below with your job searching experience or any

questions that you have about ré writing or optimizing a resume for an ATS. I'll see you in the next video. [music] Bye.