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Are you actively learning AI skills for your job search or your career right now?
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Are you actively learning AI skills for your job search or your career right now?

Came across a CBS News piece this week that said 8 in 10 hiring managers now consider AI skills a priority when evaluating candidates, and that most employers would hire someone with AI skills over someone with additional years of experience. That's a pretty significant shift.

What I find interesting is that a lot of people are just learning by doing, opening up ChatGPT or Claude and figuring it out rather than taking any formal course. Which honestly tracks with how most people learn anything useful.

On the job search side I'm curious about something slightly different though. Are you adding AI skills to your resume? Are you finding it helps? And for people using AI to write or tailor their applications, do you feel like it's working or are you noticing it makes everything blend together?

What people are actually doing and what's working?

Article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-hiring-courses-where-to-learn/

u/Huntr_Support — 2 days ago
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Common resume mistakes I see way too often in our Support Chat

I work in support at Huntr (hi! 👋)

And between that and the free job search calls Sam provides, I look at a lot of resumes. Some patterns come up constantly, and I figured it was worth putting them in one place.

1. The biggest one: treating your resume like a LinkedIn dump

Your LinkedIn has everything you've ever done. Your resume shouldn't. I see resumes running three to four pages because people can't bring themselves to cut the summer internship from 2008. Two pages is the ceiling for almost everyone. If a line doesn't help you get this specific job, it doesn't belong on this resume.

2. Sending the same resume everywhere

This is the most common one. The summary could describe anyone. The skills list is from a template. Nothing in it reflects the actual job posting. From the data we've analyzed at Huntr, tailored resumes convert at roughly twice the rate of generic ones. Even updating your top third to reflect the language of the job description makes a real difference.

3. Listing tasks instead of outcomes

"Responsible for managing calendars" tells a recruiter what you were paid to do. "Ran calendars for three VPs, cut scheduling conflicts by 40%" tells them what happened because you were there. Every bullet should lead with a verb and land on a result. If you don't have exact numbers, estimate honestly. "About 12 clients a week" beats "managed clients" every time.

4. Buzzword soup

"Results-driven self-starter with a passion for synergy." Nobody talks like this. Cut it. If you have to describe yourself as a strong communicator, show it instead. "Wrote and sent a weekly update to 400 customers for two years" is infinitely better.

5. Oversharing

Marital status, why you left your last job, hobbies that have nothing to do with the role — none of it belongs on a resume. It takes up space that could hold something that actually helps you.

One thing worth remembering going into this: there's no ATS score auto-rejecting your resume because of fonts or formatting. The filtering is still done by a person. So focus on making it easy for a human to read quickly, not on gaming something that doesn't work the way people think it does.

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u/Huntr_Support — 3 days ago
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Weekend Round-Up: May 9–16 🗓️

284 interviews. 54 offers. One week.

Every Friday we pull the numbers from what Huntr users logged that week — and this one's a good snapshot of where people are at.

The 1-in-5 interview-to-offer rate is pretty consistent with what we've been seeing. The job market is slow, but people are moving.

What did you log this week? Doesn't have to be a win — where are you at in the process?

u/Huntr_Support — 7 days ago
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RTO, how are we feeling about it?

I've been seeing a lot of chatter about this lately, on Reddit and just generally.

A year ago people were saying they'd quit before going back full time. Now the conversation feels different. The job market got tight and I think a lot of people are just quietly complying because it feels like the safer move right now.

I'm based in Canada and the conversation feels a bit different here than what I read coming out of the US, but I'm curious what it actually looks like on the ground for people wherever you are.

Are you dealing with an RTO situation at work right now? Did it change anything for you?

And if you're job searching, where does flexibility land on your list of priorities?

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u/Huntr_Support — 8 days ago
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It's almost time for the 2026 Q1 Job Search Trends Report!

The full report drops next week, what do you want to know? Ask a specific question about job search trends, and we'll pull some numbers for you.

u/Huntr_Support — 9 days ago
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Cloudflare just had their best revenue quarter ever and laid off 1,100 people the same day.

Cloudflare cut 20% of their workforce last Thursday, their first mass layoff in 16 years. The same day they reported their highest revenue quarter on record. The reason given was pretty straightforward AI tools have changed how much the team can get done, and they no longer need the same headcount to do it.

What's striking is how consistent this story is getting. Meta, Block, Oracle, and now Cloudflare. These are profitable, growing businesses making a deliberate decision that fewer people plus better AI tools equals the new operating model.

Cloudflare's CEO actually said internally their AI usage jumped over 600% in three months and described the shift as going from a manual to an electric screwdriver. He also said he expects to have more employees in 2027 than at any point this year.

For anyone job searching in tech right now, this feels relevant.

What are you all making of this trend? Does it change how you're thinking about the kinds of roles or companies you're targeting?

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u/Huntr_Support — 10 days ago
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Happy Sunday. This is your weekly open thread for anything job search related.

Advice, job search/resume questions, questions about the Huntr platform, something you learned this week, a win you want to share, or just something you've been curious about and haven't had a chance to ask yet.

u/Huntr_Support — 12 days ago
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It's Friday which means it's time to close out the week.

Drop yours in the comments: what did you actually get done this week in your job search? Could be big, could be small. Sent your first application in months, rewrote a bullet point you've been avoiding, had a call that went better than expected. All of it counts.

And if you want to share what you're going into next week focused on, even better!

u/Huntr_Support — 14 days ago
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I was a few rounds deep into an interview process, feeling pretty good about where things were headed, and then found out the recruiter I had been working with was let go by the same company I was interviewing with.

I genuinely did not know what to do. Do you follow up? With who? Is there even still a process? Does my application just exist in a void now?

I eventually tracked down someone on LinkedIn, got a reply but then ghosted.

Your turn! Share your experiences below.

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u/Huntr_Support — 14 days ago
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This happened to me exactly 4 times after my first lay off in 2021.

I think there's something uniquely cruel about that, at least a rejection gives you something to work with. Has this happened to you? How do you move on from it?

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u/Huntr_Support — 16 days ago
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I came across a posting yesterday for an entry level coordinator role. It required 3-5 years of experience, a degree, and proficiency in four different tools, and you needed a car to be considered. The salary was $38k.

There's something really broken about a market that calls something entry level and then lists requirements that would qualify someone for a senior role, not to mention the need for transportation (I live in a incredibly car centric city).

What's the most ridiculous one you've seen?

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u/Huntr_Support — 17 days ago
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I run support and knowledge content solo so AI tools are just part of the day at this point.

I had read something a while back by Boris Cherny (the person who built Claude Code at Anthropic) he thinks the title "software engineer" will disappear, replaced by "builder," and that everyone essentially becomes a product manager who codes. He mentioned it's going to be painful for a lot of people.

Anthropic also published labor market research recently that's actually pretty measured. They found AI is nowhere near its theoretical capability in practice, and there's no clear unemployment spike yet for the most exposed workers. Though hiring of younger workers has quietly slowed in those fields, which is worth paying attention to-but we are also seeing there is a lot of new grad hiring in others.

Has using AI at work changed how you're thinking about your role at all? Or does it still feel kind of abstract day to day?

Articles I've dug into for reference:

https://www.anthropic.com/research/labor-market-impacts

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/new-grads-are-finding-jobs-faster-despite-a-competitive-job-market-says-report.html

u/Huntr_Support — 21 days ago