How to Make Your Resume A.I. Friendly
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With your Money Briefing, I'm Charlie Turner in New York for The Wall Street Journal. If you're looking for a job, you should know that the use of artificial intelligence is a game changer in the job seeking process. And it's a good idea to learn how to make your resume more AI friendly. More on this in a moment. First, here are some money headlines. The latest measures of inflation are making it more likely that the Federal Reserve won't be raising interest rates anytime soon. The Labor Department Wednesday said the producer price index rose just one-tenth percent in February. Economists had expected a two-tenths percent rise for the PPI, a measure of the prices that businesses receive for their goods and services.
On Tuesday, Labor said the consumer price index rose two-tenths percent and just one-tenth percent, excluding food and energy. The Wall Street Journal's hurt on the street says that when it comes to the health care sector, investors might want to exercise caution. With the 2020 presidential election heating up, politicians on both sides of the aisle are circling the health care industry. The Trump administration is exploring whether to require hospitals, doctors and other health care providers to publicly disclose what they charge insurers for services, heretofore a closely guarded trade secret. Separately, the White House plans to implement a rule curtailing the use of prescription drug rebates in Medicare as soon as January.
Not to be outdone, congressional Democrats have proposed expanding Medicare to everybody, thus overhauling the Affordable Care Act.
How widespread is the use of AI in resume screening today?
Heard on the Street says that while the financial effects of each proposal are unclear, any changes to health care policy are unlikely to be investor-friendly. Still ahead, how to simplify your resume to make it more easily read by AI programs. boosting your chances that a recruiter will read it.
There are plenty of ways to dress up a resume so it'll stand out in front of a hiring manager.
Why do creative resume formats like tables and graphics fail AI systems?
But now that many companies are relying on artificial intelligence and machine learning to do an initial scan of resumes before it even gets to the hiring manager's desk, that creates a whole new set of challenges for job seekers. John Christensen is chief intelligence officer at Sparks Research and has some tips on making your resume AI friendly. So John, How much of a trend is this, the use of AI? And are more companies moving in this direction?
So not only are they moving in this direction, it looks like it's here to stay. I can confirm as far back in my personal observation, having seen versions of what's going on in applicant tracking back to about 2003, 2004. Now that it's here and HR managers and ops departments and the like are seeing how efficient it's making decisions and being able to get at quality candidates and actually giving HR folks the ability in more quality ways to work with HR managers, we're really seeing, excuse me, hiring managers, we're seeing that it's here to stay.
So I would imagine that any frills or boxes, tables or illustrations on a resume that might work in catching the eye of a human recruiter really would not work when you're dealing with a computer.
Anything that's artistic, anything that's beyond Essentially if you were to look at it, like take the most basic word processor. If the feature functionality is not in the most basic word processing, a resume will blow up in the face of what AI is actually looking for in the actual text. It's looking for text, you know, content stream, that kind of thing. So it's not going to do very well with, as you know, a table and the like, it's going to read it like a foreign language and it's essentially the algorithm is going to blow it up.
And in terms of what kind of text the computer and an AI program is looking for, what are some of the best tips for job seekers to put in their resume?
So the top thing to do in looking at a job posting first is to start looking at the job description. looking for the keywords and tags and the like just like how SEO works for websites you know if I were to search for marketing research form firm or something like that it's going to look Google's gonna look at all that you know the websites and like to have the greatest match for that well these applicant trackers are doing the same version of that so you want to make sure as a job seeker that your resume is tailored to
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