Should You Let AI Write Your CV?

When considering your CV, it can be tempting to think that you can just use ChatGPT to do the heavy lifting for you. After all, when you enter some brief information about your career history, AI will generate content that sounds professional. However, although AI is a great tool to assist you with content, it should not be used to create a CV and these are some reasons why.

Inaccurate Content

AI doesn’t know anything about you as an individual or your professional career and skills. Therefore, when you enter some general content into platforms like ChatGPT, it will create a CV that may include inaccuracies. Although these may sound good on paper, if you are asked about these in an interview, you might cause yourself unnecessary stress.

Lack of Personality

Your CV is individual to you and therefore, it should reflect your personality. The reader is trying to get a better understanding of not only your professional experience and skills, but also your personality and what drives you. AI does not show personality and can come across as robotic. It is usually obvious when AI has been used throughout a CV and although it can be used as a tool to help, it should not be used to create an entire CV.

Inauthentic

When a recruiter looks at a CV and it has clearly been generated by AI, it can come across as unprofessional. There should be time and effort invested into a CV to ensure it reflects your personality as well as your skills and experience. Employers are becoming increasingly wise about AI generated CVs and they will be able to tell the difference between an AI CV and one where hard work and effort has been invested.

How to Use AI Effectively

AI can be a useful tool for supporting your efforts, rather than being the primary source of creating your CV content. Some ways to use AI effectively to support CV creation include refining your grammar and providing detail on structuring your CV and improving readability.

At Inspired CVs, we find that candidates prefer to outsource their CV, as it can often be difficult to sell yourself effectively. We provide professional CV writing services to candidates throughout the world. To find out more about online CV writing services, you can contact us or order your CV here.