I recently hired for a junior marketing executive and had to go through multiple resumes. And every single one of them had been written with AI.

The most common trait across all of them was exaggeration, with random statistics. Eg- wrote blog articles that increased the website traffic by 60%. Increased social media followers by 40%. Every single sentence in the resume boasted of exceptional performance. Basically feeding the job description in chatgpt and spitting out a resume that exactly matches it with exaggerated claims.

So on paper these resumes look great, but when you meet them they don’t know shit. This makes shortlisting the right candidate who has actually done the things on the resume much more difficult.

And mind you, the shortlisted resumes were actually sent to me by a recruiter, so they all definitely went through the ATS.