Accidental Anonymity: Why AI-Generated Resumes Hide the Human Behind the Work
After years of reviewing job applications, I've noticed a troubling trend of LLM-generated resumes and portfolios that strip away personal identity. These polished, impersonal documents reveal nothing about a candidate's character, struggles, or unique journey. True connection requires bravery and imperfection, not hiding behind a machine to appear flawless.
Putting your art, writing, expression out to be judged by others is an act of bravery as much as talent, and a lot of people lack braver-y.
- pixl97
Things like this are easy to say when you're the employer, you get to select whatever portion of resumes you want with impunity. As the employee that needs a job to keep on living people tend to do anything they can to get their foot in the door. Hence, this is why resume inflation/copying known good resumes was a thing long before LLMs.
Now, if you're a smaller business, you'll very likely notice these effects and the number of resumes is rather small. But in larger businesses they may get thousands, tens of thousands of resumes, and the vast majority of them are culled by automatic processes and people that have no understanding of the real requirements of these jobs and said 'generic' resume might just allow you to get past said filter better than randomly stating who you are.
- sachaa
The irony is that AI makes it easier than ever to show what you can do, but people are using it to hide who they are.
- stronglikedan
> The perfected, generated, prompted resume is generic and impersonal. It tells me nothing about this person, other than that they use particular tools.
Considering many companies are adding AI-proficiency to their hiring metrics, maybe these folks are onto something. It won't be long before AI is doing the resume shuffling and interviewing, so these candidates will be more an more relatable to the interviewer.
> People capable of liking some paintings or prints or whatever can rarely do so without knowing something about the artist.
Rarely? Almost everyone I know that has art hanging in their homes, that they bought because the liked it, couldn't tell me thing one about the artist behind any of it.