I'm hiring two senior SWE roles right now, after many many months alternatively cajoling and threatening various VPs in my org. They kinda admitted at the start of the year we were due some headcount after some other engineers left last year... But I digress.
Today alone I spent three hours going through resumes generated mostly by ChatGPT to find anyone with even sufficient experience to make it to interview. I spent maybe a minute on each resume at most, checking experience, qualifications and then tech stack familiarity, and I'm getting maybe one in twenty with something than might hint at a sufficient level.
In today's job market, at least in my corner of it, if you've got the experience and qualifications you're going to stand out. If you're coming out of college soon with a few internships then best of luck.
I've been wondering how I could go about making my resume not look 'ai generated', but I'm not sure how someone would go about approaching such a problem. Best I could come up with was keeping it down to one page, and only fitting in relevant skills, keeping it 'humble' in comparison to pages among pages that something like chatGPT might generate. Unfortunately it does not seem like such a strategy works when it comes to standing out from the piles of applications using AI, a good amount of which I assume don't even have the skills listed.
Yes, and don't list skills like git, numpy, scipy, in some massively long bullet pointed list. Two pages max. Qualifications and experience, with previous role title front and center.
Hello, I'm looking for a senior SWE role may I submit a resume to you. I wrote it myself without chatGPT :) but I would be curious if I appear like some who does use chatGPT.
Today alone I spent three hours going through resumes generated mostly by ChatGPT to find anyone with even sufficient experience to make it to interview. I spent maybe a minute on each resume at most, checking experience, qualifications and then tech stack familiarity, and I'm getting maybe one in twenty with something than might hint at a sufficient level.
In today's job market, at least in my corner of it, if you've got the experience and qualifications you're going to stand out. If you're coming out of college soon with a few internships then best of luck.