Let’s Face It: Writing Resumes Is the Worst
Writing a CV feels like trying to fit your whole life onto one page and making it sound impressive and real, too-like a highlight reel you'd actually want to watch.
At some point in that process, you might lose the plot: What did I do in 2022 that's worth mentioning? Did I volunteer? Did I upskill? Did I even remember how to spell "synergy"? The good news is that you no longer have to do this on your own. Enter Sigma Browser Resume Builder.
You're planning to change careers and you tell Sigma Agent: "Use my current CV, update it for a UX designer role, highlight skills I've got from my marketing background, and suggest three strong bullet points for my portfolio".
Then Sigma dives into job listings, pulls out common keywords, scans your document, and gives you a freshly refined version. You still press the 'Send' button, but you don't stress about it.
Because at the end of the day, your CV should be you-just the version of you that recruiters actually click.
AI Is Already Rewriting Your Career Story
Okay, ready? AI is no longer a perchance useful thing but already does get stuck in when finding a job. Take ResumAI for instance. The system is great and has been studied in academia. It was found that by feeding a user's CV and a job description into a large language model pipeline, it could generate a tailored CV in seconds, content aligned to the needs of the role.
So, we're talking about moving from manual editing and guesswork to a tool focused on what the job actually asks for.
Then check this out: a business case in which a platform developed an AI-powered resume builder and job marketplace. Their solution offered smart content suggestions, role-specific formatting and templates-all at the power of AI analysis of the user's inputs and role targets.
It just shows that AI can make resumes look better and fit exactly into what the recruiters are looking for.
So, these tools are great for more than just spelling. They make it possible to write a CV that catches the eye of the recruiter and the ATS in one fell swoop. But it doesn't get you off the hook. Your story still matters. You can have all the tech in the world, but if your CV isn't up to scratch, you're not going to stand out.
When Automation Crosses the Line
So, you decided to let AI help polish your CV. That's smart. But here's the kicker: sometimes, letting AI take over just backfires, and not in a "typo on slide 3" kind of way, but in a "your future job might depend on this" kind of way.
Take, for example, a case you've probably heard of: Amazon built an AI recruiting system that reviewed hundreds of thousands of CVs. That system was trained on ten years worth of past Amazon resumes.
At some point, it started penalising applications that included the word "women's", e.g. "women's chess club captain", and downgrading graduates of women-only colleges. Put simply, the AI picked up on bias. Amazon reportedly ditched the tool in 2018 when the discrimination became too obvious.
The moral of the story is that if you feed biased data to an AI, you get biased outputs. As a matter of fact, your CV might not even be seen, even before you hit 'send'.
One recent study showed that large-language-model-based resume screening tools favored white-associated names 85% of the time and female-associated names only 11% of the time in simulated data experiments. So, even if your application or resume is excellent, it may still be flagged since the person who's looking over it might be biased or not checked.
And it's not just about bias. If you automate too much, your application may end up generic, with no personal touch, and sound like every other candidate. If the output is seamless but flavorless, you lose the thing that actually stood out: you.
A CV is not just a list of your work history; it's a story about your skills, your identity, and your career goals. Every time AI writes stuff, you really have to ask yourself, did I write it or did someone else write it for me?
The Agent Who Gets It
Okay, now for the best bit-how to use an AI agent that actually works for you, not just generates stuff for you.
Imagine you want to apply for a senior product manager position at a technology company. The job description includes buzzwords like "cross-functional leadership", "product roadmap", "user-centric metrics" and "Go-to-Market strategy".
You then open Sigma Resume Builder in your browser sidebar and type: "Here's my current CV. Update it for that job at TechCo: highlight my leadership experience in cross-functional teams, quantify product launches from my past roles, integrate those keywords, make it ATS-friendly without losing my voice, and flag any inconsistencies".
Sigma gets to work. It scans the job posting for keywords, pulls them out, checks your CV for matching phrases and what keywords are missing, rewrites the bullets, such as "Led team of 10 engineers to deliver three product launches, generating $4M ARR", reformats the layout for readability and ATS systems, and gives you a polished version.
In a world where every recruiter and every system is scanning for keywords, format, clarity, having a tool like Sigma means you're not just keeping up, you're ahead. Because it makes you stand out.
