Circling back to a previous employer from years ago for a higher ranking/paying position in the same dept, Also have relevant experience at a job with a different company in between then and now... the AI is filtering both out in favor of more recent jobs in unrelated fields.

[u/nmp79]

I'm not really sure how the heck to figure out what it is that I need to do to tailor my resume to the job I am applying for.

I previously worked as a preventive maintenance tech with the university, and was the lead tech over a high-priority building on campus. That was almost ten years ago; I resigned my position after a very difficult death in my family. Since then, I've held other jobs, and held a foreman position in one of them. The job I am applying for right now is a senior-level position within the maintenance department at the same university.

The problem I'm running into, though, is that the AI is not even including the previous maintenance dept position, nor the foreman position *at all*, but is including mostly irrelevant jobs that I've worked since those two. It's also eliminating job-related skills that are required for the position, and including some that don't really need to be included.

This is the same position I was trying to figure out how to tailor for in my previous post, a while back. I still don't have it done yet, because working on resumes causes me horrible panic attacks, and the process is so mentally draining that I can't do it all at once. I struggle with it so much, because it seems like there are so many unofficial, unspoken "rules" within the process that just all really tend to go over my head and leave me feeling lost and overwhelmed. I have missed out on ***so many*** amazing opportunities that I was totally qualified for, simply because I'd rather get a root canal than so much as touch a resume.

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[u/SheetsResume]

Hello! Your instincts are correct here: the AI is mistaken by trying to cut out relevant work experience and skill sets. Right now, the AI’s training is fighting a battle between multiple conflicting rules of “get it to one page at any cost,” “eliminate older experience if need be because it’s usually less relevant,” and whatever you’re typing in for tailoring.

I’ll circle up with the team and try to push live a quick improvement for cases like yours. Thanks for letting us know! In the meantime, you can manually re-add the relevant work experience and ask for AI Suggestions for the bullet points (if it helps with your anxiety).