Using AI on your resume without sounding like AI

AI tools are useful for the slow parts of a job search: matching your wording to a job description, turning a long paragraph into tight bullet points, spotting skills you forgot to mention, and drafting a first version of a cover letter you then edit.

• Invented achievements and numbers that you can't explain in an interview.
• The same buzzwords everyone else's AI uses — “spearheaded”, “leveraged”, “dynamic”, “passionate”.
• Generic sentences that could describe anyone in your field.
• Skills from the job post added to your resume even though you don't have them.

Give the AI your actual experience, not just a job title. The more real detail it has — projects, tools, results, team size — the less it needs to fill gaps with generic phrases. Ask it to rewrite and reorder, not to create.

Treat AI output as a suggestion. Read each edit and ask: is this true, could I explain it in an interview, and does it sound like me? Untick anything that fails. In AstraHire, tailoring shows each proposed change separately and leaves new claims unticked by default for exactly this reason.

After the AI pass, spend five minutes adding something only you could write — a specific result, a detail about a project, the name of a tool you actually used. That's what makes a recruiter believe the resume describes a real person.