The ability to craft a high-impact resume is a critical skill for those looking to capture the attention of prospective employers and stand out from a field of applicants. To draw attention to your special skill sets, unique expertise, and wealth of experience, simply listing qualifications and former employers will not be enough—hiring managers and HR people are looking for relevance. Along with knowing the best days to submit your resume and the top technical skills to include, you must tailor your experience, accomplishments, and expertise to the requirements of the job you're applying for. "Relevance means the person who is applying to the job is taking the time to tailor the resume to match the requirements and the keywords of the job description," says Trish Orozco, technology recruiting manager for LaSalle Network. She says employers want candidates who can not only demonstrate the technical skills demanded by the role, but who can also articulate how their understanding of tren

One of the benefits to modern A.I. is how it can handle human language, including reading, writing, processing, and even improving written text. The science behind this is incredibly complex, and thankfully we don’t need to understand it to use it. And we can make use of it in many ways, including writing resumes. Can I use A.I. to write my resume? A.I. tools such as ChatGPT can be a big help in writing and improving your resume. But the key is to realize the shortcomings of A.I.: these tools are not humans, and they base their understanding of language on what they’ve read. They make complex word connections, which allows them to understand the text we provide; and through such word connections they can write sentences and paragraphs that sound like they were written by a human–mostly. But spend some time with such tools and it won’t take long before you start to see common themes to their wordings and phrasings. In other words, ChatGPT and other A.I. tools have their own voice, just

ATS, or applicant tracking systems, are utilized by companies to help with the management of the hiring process for a variety of roles. These platforms assist recruiters and other staff in tracking applicants’ status vis-a-vis the hiring process, often with interviewer notes, and keep all relevant candidate information in a centralized database. More advanced systems also utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning to scan resumes, which is why optimizing your resume for ATS is critical. This is especially true if you’re applying to a large company; at scale, it’s difficult for any HR department to track applicants for jobs with dozens or even hundreds of candidates. Knowing how to optimize your resume to pass the ATS scan and get in front of human eyes is important. What is an ATS? An ATS is a platform, often subscription-based, that helps companies keep track of job candidates. More advanced ATS will also scan resumes for keywords associated with the role. For example, if yo