Looking for a job is not always easy, especially when you aspire to an important position in a large company, which will probably lose your CV in a huge sea full of reports from other candidates. This is what Rosa, the fictional name of the protagonist of a story originally told by El Periódico de España, feared.
Knowing the mechanisms of certain companies to select candidates, Rosa chose to try to “hack” them. This was largely helped by artificial intelligence. And be careful, she did not falsify her CV, but she added certain elements with which she was sure to pass the sophisticated filters of the companies.
“I sent more than twenty applications and none contacted me”
Our protagonist is 34 years old and works in an important technology company in our country, which is not mentioned in the original source. After an ERE that would likely affect many other colleagues, Rosa had to find a life.
During his job search, he found that he was being offered poor salaries, that the objectives did not suit him or that the person responsible for conducting the interview was not up to the task. It’s that He couldn’t even be contacted for an interview and it didn’t take him long to find out why.. The reason was none other than the companies’ internal candidate sourcing systems.
This is not common in all companies, but it is common in those that are large or receive dozens of resumes every day. They are called ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems) and are essentially software that filters candidates to ensure that only those who a priori match the company pass the screen. Those who meet the requested templates become visible to HR managers and they are already evaluating who to interview. Rosa felt her resume wasn’t even that good.
The SEO CV exists
‘Classic’ ChatGPT may be enough
If the term “SEO” seems Chinese to you, in short, it is a series of practices carried out on web pages to be able to position themselves well in search engines like Google. In many cases it involves using certain keywords, placed in a certain order and with practically hundreds of elements to take into account.
Well, for enterprise ATS, there is something similar that Rosa didn’t know existed. These are often filtered by words, skills or experiences. And it’s not that Rosa’s CV didn’t contain them, but maybe it wasn’t as complete as necessary.
There is a website accessible to everyone that analyzes the completeness or incompleteness of CVs.
So, he first resorted to a website capable of analyzing CVs and which you can access yourself. This is CV.io, although you should keep in mind that it only analyzes documents in English.
As explained on this site, only 2% of “summaries” (what they call CVs in English) can pass the first selection in companies’ detection systems. What your tool does is offer advice on improving the document so that it can pass the filters. There is no need to deceive, as we said at the beginning, but it is simply about improving the CV with true information, but in a different way from how it was expressed.
With what tool can we improve them? Well, by hand, of course, but today it’s not even necessary to have tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini or Microsoft Copilot. The free version of these chatbots works perfectly, being accessible from iPhone, Mac and any other device with Internet access.
However, for better precision The use of more advanced AI tools is recommended. With ChatGPT we can find GPTs dedicated to CV improvement, although they require a subscription to ChatGPT Plus for $20 per month, which Rosa pays according to what she had to say to the Periódico de España. Thanks to this, he has already passed four job interviews, so it seems that the technique is working.
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