Can They Track Your Resume? (The TRUTH Revealed!) #shorts

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

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Can an employer track if you have used the same resume and cover letter for multiple job applications?

Can an employer track if you have used the same resume and cover letter for multiple job applications? Only on their website. And the reality is, why would you do that? After all, the positions aren’t the same, so your resume shouldn’t be the same. You should be tailoring your resume and customizing it for the individual position you’re submitting it for. And there’s no excuse not to.

You can use AI to help you. So you can go to ChatGPT, for example, or Genesis, or Claude, or Perplexity, or whichever site you prefer, and you can say to it, ‘I want to submit my resume for this position.’ You give it the— ‘I want to submit my resume for a job.’ That’s the way to do it. ‘This is my resume,’ and you upload a resume without your contact information or name on top of it.

‘I want to submit my resume for this position with this firm,’ and you give it the company name. You upload the job description and the company name, and you give it the website address as well. ‘I’d like you to customize my resume in order to demonstrate that I’m a strong fit for this role. Make the changes,’ and it will give you a response back that will either, depending upon the platform, rewrite your resume for you for the job or tell you the things that you’ll need to emphasize in order to make it a stronger fit for the role. You can do the same thing with a cover letter and basically ask it to write a cover letter for you— four paragraphs, no longer, 250 words, no longer.

And from there, you can edit both to make it even tighter and to put it into your voice. So the long and the short of it is, they can only track it if you are sending it to their website. And you should be tracking your resume submissions consistently so that you’re not running into this problem. But on the corporate applicant tracking systems, usually they can’t do.