I Used AI to Improve My Resume—Here's What Happened in One Week
For three months, I sent out applications and heard almost nothing back. Not rejections — silence. The kind of silence that makes you question whether your emails are even reaching real people, or whether your resume is landing in some automated void and getting filtered out before a human ever sees it. I'm a mid-level software developer with four years of experience, a reasonable portfolio, and what I thought was a solid resume. I'd updated it earlier in the year, cleaned up the formatting, made sure all my dates were right. I applied to roles I was genuinely qualified for. The response rate was somewhere around 3%, which, if you've ever done a job search, you know is not great. Something wasn't working, and I couldn't tell if it was my skills, my resume, my target companies, or some combination of all three. So I decided to isolate one variable: the resume itself. For one week, I would use AI to rebuild it from the ground up — rewriting, optimizing, restructurin...