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How to write a résumé with AI, without making anything up
Tell the AI your experience, ask it to organize it and adapt each résumé to the job. Never let the tool invent a job, a course or a result.
bairogonzalez.com team, drawing on Bairo's story · Published
Artificial intelligence helps a lot with writing a résumé, especially for those who don't know where to start, have been out of the job market for years or think they "have nothing to put on it." It turns what you tell it into clear sentences, organizes the order, suggests words recruiters look for and adapts the text to each job. What it must never do is invent: a course you didn't take, a position you didn't hold, a number you didn't reach. An inflated résumé gets found out in the interview, and sometimes after you've been hired.
The best résumé made with AI is the one in which every line is true and said in the best possible way.
Why AI is not a chatbot
Many people ask "write a salesperson's résumé" and get a generic template. AI really delivers when it listens to your story, asks questions and finds value in experiences you didn't even consider.
In Bairo's view, AI is an extension of you. He often says that "artificial intelligence is an extension of the human, not the problem." On a résumé, it doesn't create who you are; it helps you see yourself and present yourself.
Step by step today
- Tell it everything, unfiltered. Speak or write your career story as in a conversation, including informal work, odd jobs, volunteering and caring for family:
I'm going to tell my professional story the way I remember it.
Then I want you to ask me questions to discover
skills and results I didn't mention. Don't write the
résumé yet. My story: [tell it].
- Answer the questions. They often reveal valuable things: "did you train the newcomers?", "did you handle the cash register?", "did you resolve complaints?".
- Ask for the structure:
Based on what we've discussed, put together a one-page résumé
with: a 3-line summary, experience showing what I did and what
improved, education, courses and skills. Use only information
I gave you. If something is missing, leave a marked space.
- Adapt it for each job. Paste the job ad and ask:
This is the job: [paste]. Adjust my résumé to highlight what
fits it, without inventing anything. Also list what the job asks for
that I don't have, so I know what to study.
- Write the cover message. Ask for a short letter or message for LinkedIn or email, in your tone.
- Practice the interview. Ask the AI to play the recruiter, one question at a time, and then assess your answers.
- Review line by line. Read it as if you were the recruiter: can you explain every sentence with a real example? If not, delete it.
- Take care of the format. A PDF file, the file named with your name, a simple font, no photo unless the job asks for one.
- Don't hide gaps; explain them. A period caring for someone, unemployment, moving countries: ask the AI for an honest, short way to explain it.
How Bairo did it
If Bairo Leandro Gonzalez Martinez wrote his own résumé, it would have many lines that ended in a fall: a salon that didn't work out as well as he'd have liked, an AI idea that came too early, partners who pushed him out of a business, a company that went under with many people depending on him. He doesn't hide those lines. For him, every no was the ground of the next yes.
And it would have an unlikely line: six months at home, in front of the computer, without knowing how to code, learning to build with the tools of his own time. Out of those months came the foundation of the platform and the artificial intelligence of CEASA Bank, a financial platform for agribusiness. A skill learned late is still a skill, and it deserves to be on paper.
Precautions
A résumé is a personal document: don't send your CPF, full address, documents or photos to the tool; don't accept any information the AI added that you didn't say; be wary of jobs and "recruiters" who ask for payment or bank details; seek professional help if the question is about labor rights; and know that automated screening systems can be biased against age, gender or origin, so it's also worth delivering your résumé in person or through a referral.