Michelle Perchuk, an executive career coach, warns that AI job-scam services promising to mass-distribute your resume to thousands of employers rarely work and often steal your data. Never include your Social Security number on a resume, and always rewrite any AI-generated content in your own words before sending it out.
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Finding the right job can be difficult. Making the search even harder for the average job seeker these days, the growing problem of being fooled by artificial intelligence.
AI can be used by scammers to trick you out of your money, and it could cost you a job, so you've got to be careful.
7 On Your Side has a warning about a new con job, and it starts with the offer to help with your resume. So we had to bring Nina in on this. Oh boy, AI wreaking havoc once again.
Uh, yeah, it's all over the place, right? I mean, and it's competitive out there in the job market. I think the numbers were out last Friday, and it's 4.2% unemployment. So obviously important to be seen by as many employers as possible. But, you know, push pause before doing 2 things. One, using AI to write for you and then paying for a service which promises, I'm going to get your resume to thousands of managers for a hiring fee. So we talked to an executive career coach. She warns about imposters exploiting generative AI Promising volume, like getting in front of thousands of recruiters. So here's Michelle Perchuk on how that can backfire.
A spray-and-pray approach to finding a job is not the right approach. Sending a resume to 5,000 jobs and getting zero interviews is not an equation that anyone should pay even $1 for.
You may be asked to pay for a monthly subscription or pony up a one-time fee, but before you click send, ask questions.
For example, who's going to see my resume? Which companies are you sending my resume to? What level of positions are you sending my resume to?
Inquire about guaranteed outcomes like the amount of interviews or offers, and ask for results from other job applicants.
Buying these services and not understanding how they work and who they're sending your resume to It's important to get the answers to those questions.
You know, if you're asking AI the answers to these questions, you're going to trip them up because they're not going to really be able to give you, say, a reference like, oh, talk to this person, they used us, because you're talking to a bot.
Right. There's a flip side to this. What about when you're crafting your resume?
Right.
Because there's some resumes you look at, you're like, okay.
You kind of know, right? Well, Michelle said, you know, she said something great in our interview. Use AI kind of like a girlfriend or a pal, you know what I mean? You want to use it to help, but not to do the work for you.
For you.
Yeah. And so she had some tips on how to really craft AI, but avoid including personal data, which can lead to ID theft.
Some people even put their Social Security number. When you put that information out there, these databanks of resumes can be sold to nefarious entities who may be printing credit cards or our personal information.
She recommends name, email, contact number, and your handle on LinkedIn only. And when it comes to building your resume, Michelle says never use AI to create a job description for yourself or write your resume for you.
Apparently there is an invisible watermark now on the content that AI writes.
Michelle tells her clients, use AI to help brainstorm as a supplement, not a replacement, and get into the habit of rewriting content in your own words.
Because when you're going to be at the actual interview, the hiring manager will ask you about things on your resume, and you're not going to be able to use your natural language to explain what you did. They're going to know you used AI.
