Dropped $200 on an AI resume service and it butchered my experience

I was lazy and paid $200 for an AI tool that promised to rewrite my resume for better job matches. It turned my three years as a line cook into "culinary operations manager" which sounds fake and got zero callbacks. Then it listed "expert in high pressure multitasking" which is true but also sounds like every other generic resume out there. After a month of nothing I went back to a plain text version I wrote myself and got two interviews in a week. Has anyone else tried those expensive AI writing tools and just ended up redoing everything manually?

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alice_kim26d ago

Oh come ON, "culinary operations manager" sounds perfectly fine to me. You're totally missing the point of what those AI tools are trying to do. They're supposed to jazz up your boring job titles so recruiters actually LOOK at your resume instead of tossing it. I used one of those services and it turned my "cashier" role into "customer transaction specialist" and I got like five interviews in two weeks. The whole reason you paid $200 is because writing a plain text version yourself makes you sound like every other line cook out there. You probably just didn't adjust the settings right or something.

kim19126d ago

I mean sure @alice_kim, if it worked for you that's cool and all, but is it really that deep? It's just a job title at the end of the day, not like you're curing cancer or something. Feels like people get way too caught up in this whole resume game sometimes.