The Wall Street Journal featured research from Revelio Labs and Stanford University examining how workers are rewriting their career histories as AI skills become increasingly important to employers.
The research, co-authored by Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom and Revelio Labs researchers Lisa Simon and Caelan Wilkie-Rogers, examines retrospective changes workers make to previous jobs, including the growing addition of AI-related language to past experience.
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Job seekers are giving their work histories an AI update
In “Job Seekers Are Racing to AI-Proof Their Résumés,” Wall Street Journal reporter Te-Ping Chen explores how job seekers are responding as employers add more AI-related terms to job descriptions.
Some workers are building new AI skills and earning certifications, while others are revising how they describe previous experience. Bloom told The Wall Street Journal that some changes may reflect legitimate corrections or updates, while the prevalence of the edits suggests others may be overstating their past exposure to AI.
The research uses Revelio Labs workforce data to examine how professional profiles change over time, providing a view into how workers adjust the way they present their experience as employer demand shifts.
Read the full Wall Street Journal article for more on how AI is changing résumés and the job search.
Read the full article: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/job-seekers-are-racing-to-ai-proof-their-resumes-f310f43c