Ally is a technical recruiter at Simplify, helping engineers land their dream roles. Drawing on a background in data, she writes about the job search and how to get past technical hiring bars.
Raw ChatGPT gives itself away within two bullets. But recruiters don't reject you for using AI; they reject the generic resume it wrote. A Simplify recruiter explains, with data from 110,000+ resumes.
A practical guide to UI/UX internship paths, portfolio case studies, current role requirements, application strategy, and design interviews.
Ten to fifteen, grouped under category labels. We counted the skills on 75,308 real resumes: the median is 15, the mean is 19.4, and one resume in ten lists 44 or more.
Past tense, for every job on the page, including your current one. We pulled 26,981 real resume bullet points from Simplify to show why the present-tense rule almost nobody follows, and the cases where it still earns its place.
