A professional resume is key to getting good jobs and enhancing employment prospects. When you send your resume to a company, every detail reflects your professionalism and attention to detail.
How you add the details, the type of details you add, etc., all matter a lot regarding resume writing.
In this post, we will examine how you can use AI-enabled software and online tools to create excellent resumes. Let’s get into it.
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Use AI-based grammar checkers to ensure zero grammar and spelling errors in the resume.
As we said just now, the attention to detail you exhibit in your resume is the same attention to detail that your potential employers can expect from you as a team member. That is why it is important to outdo yourself in this regard and ensure that there are no loose ends in any of the text and content you put in the resume.
The first thing you should do once you have the first version of your resume ready is check it for spelling and grammar errors. Everyone makes them and you should expect to find quite a few of them. For roles such as those in a Dutch Bros career, where communication skills are important, submitting an error-free resume is vital.
The reason that you should specifically use an AI-based tool for this purpose is that they are more accurate. Since they use AI, they are intelligent enough to understand the purpose and the context of the text they are checking. Due to that, there are fewer false alarms.
When it comes to AI grammar checkers, we personally like to use Grammarly because it is accurate and also preserves the formatting of the documents that you upload to it. For example, you could upload a very intricately formatted resume to the tool, edit it all you want, and then download it with the formatting intact.
Use AI-based paraphrasing tools to adjust the wording and flow of the content in the resume.
This is another way AI can act as your assistant in resume writing. If you are writing the content yourself in all the parts such as the bio and the experiences, etc., you have to make sure that it is written in a nice and impressive flow.
Since the recruiter reads all of these parts, you should use them to make a good impression.
Using an AI paraphrasing tool to rephrase and improve those parts can be very effective. Here is an example to show you what we mean.
A paraphrasing tool can fix various types of issues in the content, such as:
- Repetition
- Improper wording
- Clunky sentences
And the like.
To show you what we mean, here is a look into how a paraphrasing tool can make resume text better in quality. We’re using paraphrasing.io for this example:
Use AI-based summarizing tools to adjust the length of the text in your resume
Apart from readability and grammar perfection, another important factor to remember about the text and content in your resume is brevity. You have to keep the text short. Resumes aren’t supposed to be very long, and you have to make the pieces of text easily understandable.
If you write some text in your resume that you later find to be overly lengthy, you can use an AI-based summarizing tool to shrink the word count. An AI summarizer would be able to understand the meaning of the text and cut out all the unnecessary bits so that the main meaning is conveyed.
Here is an example to show you exactly what we mean. In the image below, we’re using an AI-based summarizing tool to shrink some text. The name of this tool is summarizer.org.
Some tips and precautions when using AI tools
Using AI tools for writing tasks can be a great way to boost your productivity and efficiency. However, there are some precautions that you have to keep in mind so that you get the most out of them and avoid any potential downsides.
- The first thing that you should remember about AI writing tools is that while they’re smart, they are not perfect. They can occasionally make mistakes in the output, and this is something that even the tool websites themselves mention on the web pages. Keeping that in mind, you should always check the output that the tools provide. Especially when you’re using the output on something as important as a resume, you need to be careful about checking and proofreading.
- Another precaution that you should take when using AI writing tools is picking a worthwhile one. There are many tools on the Internet, and a lot of them make a lot of claims. But only a handful are actually worth anything. Our personal practice is to look for tools that have a large user base and that have been reviewed by reliable sources. That way, you don’t have to worry about the results being low-quality and/or your data being used somewhere without your consent.
Final Thoughts
And with that, we’re going to wrap this post up.
The good thing about AI nowadays is that it is very easy to use. To use AI for your resume, for example, you just have to go to the Internet, pick a tool, enter your content, and that’s it.
There are many different things that you can do with the help of AI to improve your resume. We have described some of the stuff in the post above. The next time you’re applying for a job, try out those tips and improve your chances of getting a callback.
