Resume · Artificial intelligence The Metric Mirage: Why Overusing Numbers Is Killing Your Resume For years the advice was to quantify everything. Then ChatGPT learned the rule, and now every resume reads like a sales deck. Recruiters can spot the fakes — and the fakes are sinking real applications too. By Jacquie Liversidge Published 28 August 2025 5 min read In thirty seconds "Quantify your achievements" was great advice — until ChatGPT learned the rule, and now every AI-generated resume is stuffed with…

Artificial Intelligence · Resume Using ChatGPT to Write Your Resume A practical guide to using ChatGPT as a resume tool without falling into the patterns that get AI-generated resumes filtered out. Where it helps, where it hurts, and the prompts that produce content worth keeping. By Jacquie Liversidge Published 19 September 2024 Updated 2026 10 min read In thirty seconds ChatGPT is a useful tool for specific resume tasks — drafting professional summaries, generating capability descriptors, building career timelines, and proofreading. It's poor…

Job market · Retrospective · 2025–2026 The 2025 Australian Job Market: How It Actually Played Out A retrospective on the Australian job market — what was forecast in late 2024, what actually happened in 2025, and what the data tells job seekers about the year ahead. Written with the benefit of seeing how the year landed. By Jacquie Liversidge Originally published 11 September 2024 Updated May 2026 9 min read In thirty seconds 2025 unemployment peaked at 4.5% in September — the highest…

AI · Editing · Job applications AI-Generated Job Applications: How to Edit AI Output to Read as Human If you're going to use AI in your application, the editing matters more than the prompting. Here's what triggers recruiter rejection in 2026 — and the practical before/after editing that turns AI output into something a hiring manager won't filter on sight. By Marc Cayzer Originally published 6 June 2024 Updated May 2026 9 min read In thirty seconds The 2024 version of this post…