A tech professional reviewing applications for an intern role has raised concerns over the growing use of AI-generated resumes among freshers. The experience, shared on Reddit, highlights how similar many applications have begun to look, making it harder to assess candidates.

The reviewer said they went through around 30 resumes, mostly from freshers and a few from candidates with up to two years of experience. What stood out was the repetition in language and structure.

"I reviewed 30 fresher resumes for one intern role. Kinda lost hope honestly," the post read.

According to the reviewer, several resumes included identical phrases such as "results-driven professional" and "leveraged cutting-edge technologies to drive business outcomes".

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"I started seeing the exact same phrases across completely different resumes," the post adds.

This pattern led the reviewer to believe that tools like ChatGPT were being widely used to draft resumes.

Lack of clarity on actual work

The main concern, the reviewer noted, was not about skill levels but about the lack of detail. Many candidates listed technologies like Python, Java, SQL, MongoDB and React, but did not explain how they had used them.

"The worst part is I couldn't figure out what anyone actually did. When everybody lists the same 12 technologies, it tells me nothing about anyone," he wrote.

The reviewer also pointed out that candidates rarely mentioned challenges faced during projects or learning.

"Nobody talks about what was hard. That would actually impress me. Because that's what real work looks like. But nope. Everyone is proficient in everything, apparently," he adds.

Out of the 30 resumes, only four or five stood out as genuinely written. These were shortlisted because they clearly explained the work done and the approach taken.

How did people react to the post?

The post sparked discussion among Reddit users, many of whom agreed that resumes are becoming increasingly uniform.

One user noted, "Your point is right, but this time it was you, a human reading all these resumes, but most of the time resumes go through ATS where a machine is reading those resumes."

Another disagreed with the post and said, "Why is someone going to write their challenges in a resume? You would write what you achieved, the scale, the impact. The challenge is something that comes out in the interaction. Not written as a bullet point."

"I'm in the same boat. the worst problem is that these folks have the same projects on their github as pre-AI, but those projects are completely written using AI.

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Before AI, everyone had an Amazon clone or Netflix clone on their GitHub, but at least they wrote it so i could judge their code and whatnot. Now even those are written by AI, I don't have anything to judge them by. All i can see is that they are lazy," said a third person on Reddit.

One person agreed and disagreed at the same time and wrote, "Ditto, I hate reading the AI generated slop all over the internet and on people's resume.

As a human, I don't need fancy words, I need simple explanation of what one is trying to say to get the context.

However, in this case, I don't blame the candidates, they think they have to pass the ATS and making their resume using AI makes it sound pretty."

"There should be two types of resumes: ATS resume, and human reviewable resume. Both having their own purposes," said another.

Another added, "I would have written my whole resume myself, but trying to keep up with ATS selection is something that made me nervous."

A third user commented, "I never thought about this from a recruiter's POV before, but I get it. I do believe that almost all applications look similar because obviously, pretty much everyone uses some kinda AI to polish their resume."