Lesson 140 · 3 min
AI in hiring: your rights and tips
Many employers use software to sort CVs and screen interviews, so write clearly for both the machine and the person, and ask how decisions are made.
Companies with many applicants often use software to scan CVs for skills and job titles, rank candidates, or score recorded video answers. A human usually decides at the end, but not always early on.
Help the machine read you. Use a simple layout, clear headings, plain job titles, and the real skills listed in the job ad, as long as you truly have them. Fancy designs and text inside images can be skipped.
You can ask whether AI is used in the process, what data is kept, and whether a person reviews rejections. Data protection rules in Vietnam and many other countries give you rights over your personal data. For legal questions, ask a lawyer or the labour authority.
Using AI to polish your CV is fine. Inventing experience is not, and it tends to come out in the interview.
Do it now
Check your CV against a job ad
- 1. Copy a job ad you are interested in.
- 2. Remove your phone, address and ID details from your CV.
- 3. Paste both into a chatbot with the prompt below, then edit the CV yourself.
Here is a job ad: [PASTE AD]. Here is my CV with personal details removed: [PASTE CV]. List the skills from the ad that my CV shows clearly, the ones it shows weakly, and any it does not show. Do not invent experience. Suggest clearer wording only for what I really did.
Quick check
Keep going
Next →Elections and AI misinformationWords from this lesson
- Bias
- When an AI treats some people or ideas unfairly because of skewed patterns in the data it learned from.
- Classifier
- A model that sorts things into groups, such as spam or not spam, or which plant is in a photo.
- Human in the loop
- Designing a process so a person reviews or approves the AI's work before it has real consequences.