AI Wrote His CV And Left Out Everything That Made Him Worth Hiring

Malik was good with people. Not in a charming, say the right things kind of way. In a quieter way. The kind where people felt heard after talking to him. They called him directly when something was wrong because they trusted that he would actually do something about it.

He had spent six years building that kind of trust with the people he worked with. And for eight months, the job market had not seemed to care at all. He still experiences the same frustrations every job seeker faces.

How It Started

When Malik joined his last company, they handed him a list of clients that nobody else wanted to take on.

Three managers had tried to hold that group together in eighteen months, and all three had lost people along the way. The clients were not angry. They were just done. Done with explaining themselves. Done with starting over. Done with feeling like they were an inconvenience.

Malik spent the first few weeks just calling people. No agenda. No targets. Just checking in and listening. Slowly, things settled. By the end of his first year, not a single client had left, and the group had grown by 40% in value.

He had not chased new business. He had just made people feel like staying.

So Why Was Nobody Calling Him Back

I asked him that question when he sat down in my office.

He thought about it for a moment and then slid his CV across the table.

I read it and understood immediately. Someone could immediately tell the CV was AI. It was too generic and robotic to be written by a human.

The whole story I just told you was nowhere in it. Not the inherited accounts. Not the 40%. Not the letter or the drive or the two-hour conversation. None of it.

What was there instead was a line about being “responsible for managing client accounts and ensuring satisfaction across all touchpoints.” As someone who has written CVs forever, I was asking myself the same thing: What does that even mean??

I looked up at him. “Did you write this yourself?”

“I used AI,” he said. “I just gave it my job title and what I did day to day, and it came back with that. I thought it sounded right.” He actually looked impressed with himself; he thought his document was as professional as it could be.

“It sounds like everyone who has ever had your job title,” I said. “It does not sound like you at all.”

He looked at the CV for a long moment, shocked that his CV was the reason people were not calling.

“So what do we do?” he said.  I told him to forget the CV existed and just talk to me. And so we started anew, the stories he told me, the achievements and the wins he had under his belt. His CV finally sounded as impressive as him.

We wrote all of it down in plain language. No borrowed phrases and no corporate buzzwords. Just honest and specific and completely his.

Just three weeks later, he sent me a text, saying he had finally gotten an offer, something that was much higher than his previous job, with benefits and commissions.

Bottomline,

Here is the Simple Truth that most recruiters shy away from.

AI will write you a CV that looks finished. What it will not do is ask you about the client who almost left or the time you made your manager proud. Those real stories are the stories that keep the recruiters on your CV longer.

Your real stories are in there somewhere. The moments that actually show who you are when things get difficult. Those are what we look for.

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