How much should you be using AI in your job search? Recruiters and career coaches weigh in.
Lamar Rogers uses AI for many parts of his job search, but said he doesn't let it automatically apply to jobs on his behalf.
Courtesy of Lamar Rogers HR pros shared advice on how much AI applicants should use during the job search process.
They said job hunters don't need to hide AI use in their résumé, as long as the claims they make are true.
Using AI bots to mass apply may not be strategic, and could lead recruiters to distrust applicants.
Since getting laid off from a big bank in March, Lamar Rogers has used AI to help him apply to nearly 200 jobs.
He turns to Claude to tailor his résumé, uses an AI-powered dashboard for every interview, and recently vibe-coded a résumé-review app.
Yet Rogers draws the line at letting AI apply for jobs on his behalf.
For the senior roles in banking and tech that he's pursuing, using AI to handle the entire application would be "disingenuous," Rogers, 34, said.
"I want to put a lot more thought and care into it." While employers use AI to screen applications, job seekers are using AI to whip up résumés and apply for jobs.
Yet as AI firms make it easier to identify a bot's helping hand — Anthropic recently said new Claude models would insert an "imperceptible watermark" into text that AI kicks out — the big question is how much AI is too much in the application process? Business Insider spoke with headhunters and HR pros about best practices for using AI in your job hunt: You don't need to hide AI Job coaches said that candidates don't necessarily need to hide their use of AI.
Employers are more focused on whether a candidate's claims hold up than on how polished their résumé looks.
"It's not really about whether AI helped write it," said Stephen Telford, a headhunter and career coach.
"It's about whether the claim actually holds up once I start digging." If a candidate claims they "improved sales by 30%" yet can't provide a detailed breakdown or point to evidence of how they achieved that result on their LinkedIn profile or elsewhere, Telford said he starts to lose trust.
"That tells me it's just AI-generated confidence," said Telford, who previously recruited for AWS.
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