Wasted $200 on that AI resume builder that promises job matches

I signed up for that AI resume tool that claims to optimize your resume for each job posting. Paid $200 for a year subscription and used it for three weeks. It kept spitting out generic bullet points that sounded nothing like how I actually work. My friend got an interview after rewriting hers by hand in an hour. Has anyone else had better luck with a specific tool or are they all pretty much the same?

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xena_fox396d ago

Honestly the thing nobody mentions is that these tools are basically just word generators, they can't know what specific projects you actually killed it at. I spent $150 on one and it was pushing "synergized cross-functional deliverables" for a cashier job, like come on. The real trick is just using the free version of something to steal the keywords from the job listing and then rewriting them in your own voice, that's all the paid stuff does anyway but worse. My roommate matched every keyword perfect from her old tool and still got ghosted because the AI couldn't sell her actual personality or drive.

anthonymurray6d ago

That's exactly what happened to my buddy Mark last year. He paid for one of those premium services and it wrote him a resume that made him sound like a corporate robot from a bad training video. He sent it out to like 20 places and got nothing but silence for three weeks. Then he just took the free version and rewrote everything himself, keeping it simple and honest about his actual work. He got three callbacks in the first week after that. @xena_fox39 you're spot on about the keywords thing, but the real difference was him talking like a person instead of a brochure. These tools just can't capture the stuff that makes you stand out in an interview.