Introduction
The AI revolution in the job market has brought along with it a special kind of catch 22. Even as companies set the quality of work at AI standards they want to make it feel uniquely human. While AI can make work easier on one side, it puts pressure on the humans to make it feel less AI and more human. This dilemma is present in the recruiter scene as well. While AI resumes help job seekers create a polished and professional resume in minutes, recruiters end up valuing resumes with AI level resumes that don’t sound robotic. That leads us to an important and popular question – how to make my resume feel human? Maybe not depend on the AI resume builders at all? The answer is simple : strike the balance between robotic and human. Make use of AI resume builders but bring your own human touch into it.
In this blog, we shall discuss the importance of human elements in a resume and how to make an AI resume sound less mechanical.
How AI Resumes Work
AI resumes are fully crafted using artificial intelligence tools and platforms. Platforms like GoResume can make accurate analysis of a candidate’s job profile and job descriptions to make a resume that stands out and has value. It also makes the process of resume building faster and easier, and eliminates the need for multiple revisions and proofreading. Moreover, AI resume builders can also make your resume appealing to ATS softwares since a vast majority of recruiters use these tools to filter candidates. But it will be unrealistic to expect too much emotional depth from machines. AI tools can also make resumes sound generic and lifeless, which fails to create an emotional impact on recruiters.
Why Human Touch Matters
This is why human supervision is important in resume making. Recruiters want to employ people – not machines. They need proof that a skilled and enthusiastic human is looking for the job, not a robot. Mechanical resumes, no matter how polished and crisp they are, fail to appeal to potential employers due to this reason. Achievements and skillset falls short, if they are presented without context and vigour. While resumes are not emotional documents, there are certain elements where emotional cues matter and artificial intelligence may not be able to pick that.
How To Make AI Resumes Sound Human
How can we make a resume created by artificial intelligence sound more human and not lifeless? Here are a few strategies you can try:
- Personalization
Customize your resume, tailoring it to your unique career journey rather than the generic candidate profile AI believes will rank most. Let AI create the resume, but take liberty to make necessary changes that resonate emotional depth and tell the exclusive aspects of your career profile.
- Customization
Instead of sending the same resume to every job application, take the time to customise the resume to match each job description. Include the keywords of certain job descriptions in the resume.
- Storytelling
Highlight your achievements in the form of stories; in other words, bring context into your key success stories.
- Conversational tone
Avoid stiff language in your resume and words that sound too dead and mechanical.
- Keyword optimization
Avoid an over-optimization of keywords and stick to the most crucial, industry-specific keywords. Make sure that the keywords match the job description.
- Readability
Pay attention to the readability score. Read your resume a few times and try to think like a person who is reading it for the first time. See how a recruiter can feel reading your resume. Then make necessary changes to make it feel more natural.
Conclusion
AI resumes help job applicants create optimized resumes in a matter of seconds. But resumes that sound too mechanical and stiff can be off-putting to recruiters. Candidates can introduce their own human touch into resumes by taking care of a few things in a resume. A human-like resume improves the probability of a candidate to land their desired job. Personalization, context, authenticity and storytelling are few things a candidate can do to make their resume sound more human and natural.
