AI Algorithms Could Undermine Your Security Job Hunt

Over the last 30 days, you’ve sent out over 100 job applications, tailoring your resume and cover letter for each, regardless of whether the job matched your experience level. Yet, the response has consistently been the same: crickets.

There are many reasons you might not be receiving responses from the companies you’re applying to. Increasingly, however, artificial intelligence (AI) is likely playing a key role in what you are experiencing. AI is being used by both security job seekers and the companies that hire them. Often with unsatisfactory results for all parties.

Key areas where AI has the potential to affect your job search:

• Job seekers are increasingly using AI to craft resumes tailored for specific roles, ensuring all relevant keywords from the job description, those likely to be scanned by a company’s applicant tracking system, are included. However, recruiters are on top of this trend and can quickly detect when a resume or cover letter has been generated by AI. Once recruiters identify such content, they tend to disregard the application.
• Candidates using AI systems to generate resumes do so far more quickly than a human can. This means job openings that used to receive 100 resumes can now be deluged by more than 1,000 in an extremely abbreviated time. When this occurs…

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