Harvard Warns AI-Written Resumes Sound Generic: 7 Prompts to Fix Yours
thisguyknowsai · x · 2026-09-21
A prompt collection addressing the problem that AI-generated resumes "sound generic." Citing Harvard's career services resume guide, the author shares 7 prompts whose core idea is to have AI interview the applicant question-by-question to surface forgotten achievements, rather than writing the resume outright.
- Prompt 1, "The achievement digger": Paste your last job title and what you did, then tell the AI not to write anything yet. It interviews you one question at a time to find results you forgot to mention, asking about problems you fixed, things you made faster, and anything your boss thanked you for, using only answers you actually give.
- Prompt 7, "The interview check": Have the AI read the final resume like a tough interviewer, writing the hardest follow-up question for every bullet and flagging any line you'd struggle to back up with a real story. The author notes this is the step most people skip: if you can't talk about a line for 60 seconds, it doesn't belong on the page.
The author's point: AI can polish a sentence all day, but it can't hand you a result you never got. Your results are already sitting in your old jobs; these prompts just make you dig them out.
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