Is ChatGPT creating your resume?

If you’re asking ChatGPT to “write me a resume” or "here is my resume attached and revise it for a senior product manager role”. and you got an interview with it. you are in 1%

Today’s newsletter is for the other 99% who tried this method and haven’t gotten a call back.

without any context, you’re essentially asking a stranger who’s never met you to convince an employer why you’re the perfect hire.

with this kind of prompting you get a document full of generic corporate speak that says absolutely nothing about you.

When you feed AI minimal information, it fills the gaps with what it knows best: patterns. And those patterns are built from millions of resumes it’s been trained on. So your “unique” resume ends up sounding like this:

• “Results-driven professional with proven track record...”
• “Excellent communication skills and team player...”
• “Passionate about driving organizational success...”

Hiring managers see hundreds of these. They’ve developed pattern blindness to this language. Your resume becomes wallpaper.

Why Context Is Everything

AI isn’t psychic. It doesn’t know:

• That you rebuilt the entire customer onboarding process and reduced churn by 34%
• That you taught yourself Python to automate reporting that saved your team 15 hours weekly
• That you managed a product launch during a company restructuring with zero budget increase
• The specific technologies, methodologies, and frameworks you’ve mastered
• How you actually communicate, solve problems, or lead teams

~you get where I am going with this~

Without the details, AI invents plausible-sounding but ultimately meaningless filler.

The Right Way to Use AI for Your Resume

Think of AI as an exceptionally skilled writer and editor, but one that needs your raw material to work with.

Feed it your career assets:

• Performance reviews and feedback
• Project descriptions and outcomes with metrics
• Awards, recognitions, and specific achievements
• Your actual job descriptions and responsibilities
• Problems you solved and how you solved them
• Technologies and tools you’ve used extensively
• Your authentic communication style from emails or reports

Then give it clear instructions like:

• “Here are five projects I led. Transform these into achievement-focused bullet points that quantify impact.”
• “I’m applying for a senior product role at a healthtech startup. Reframe my experience to emphasize relevant skills.”
• “Make this sound more confident and senior-level while keeping my voice.”

The Difference This Makes

A context-rich prompt produces a resume that:

• Uses specific, verifiable achievements instead of vague claims
• Speaks in your actual voice and experience level
• Aligns precisely with roles you’re targeting
• Tells a coherent story about your career progression
• Stands out because it contains real substance

Meanwhile, the generic “write me a resume” approach produces something that could describe thousands of other candidates. It might look professional, but it’s optimized for nothing except looking like a resume.

Your Resume Is a Sales Document

Would you let a salesperson pitch your most important product without giving them any information about it? That’s exactly what you’re doing when you ask AI to write your resume from scratch.

Your career deserves better than AI’s best guess. Give it the data, and you’ll get back something worth shortlisting.

AI can be a powerful ally in your job search, but only if you treat it like the tool it is -one that amplifies your input, not one that generates your story from thin air.

Stop asking AI to create. Start asking it to elevate what you’ve already built.

I promise the unique you will shine.

That’s all for today

-Nazuk

P.s.

Bonus: I wrote about how how you can build a light-weight RAG system without engineering that went mildly viral. Read here if you missed.

PLUS

Pair that with my Newly launched interview dashboard that has AI prompts to help you practice with AI on your own time in a meaningful way with YOUR career stories.

I promise within 3 weeks you will be ready for your first interview if you put in the effort.

Here is another one of the essay you might find useful while preparing your career stories unique storytelling ways