The Future of Tech Resumes: AI Personalization + Structured Data
If you are an experienced engineer, you have probably revised your resume dozens of times. The familiar ritual of tweaking bullet points and selecting fonts is no longer enough. Currently, the first "reader" of your resume is often software. Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) parse a document and extract structured fields such as job titles, dates, skills and education. Recruiters then search and filter based on those fields to manage hundreds of applicants. Meanwhile, job-seekers are using AI to generate generic resumes and cover letters, so the competition for attention is fierce. This post argues that the static, one-size-fits-all resume is dying. Instead, modern hiring pipelines reward resumes that are both role-specific and machine-readable.
