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Hiring for white-collar jobs has been especially weak, part of what economists call a \u201clow-hire, low-fire<\/a>\u201d\u00a0job market in which businesses are largely holding onto their workers while hiring\u00a0remains sluggish<\/a>, making it difficult for younger workers to land permanent work.<\/p>\n Technology is also shaking up the hiring process. Automated systems enable job seekers to easily apply to more jobs, but those same systems also makes it even tougher to get noticed. According to data from hiring platform Greenhouse, the average recruiter has 3.5 times more job applications to sift through than they did a few years earlier.<\/p>\n But artificial intelligence has offered job seekers new ways to stand out, such as improving r\u00e9sum\u00e9s or helping with interview prep. Here\u2019s advice from experts on how to use technology to your benefit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n An updated r\u00e9sum\u00e9 is one of the basic tenets of a job search. AI is a great tool for revamping CVs and cover letters, but experts warn that everyone else has also already realized this.<\/p>\n AI \u201cabsolutely does risk reducing your job application materials to the same style as every other applicant\u2019s,\u201d said Daniel Zhao, chief economist at online job and recruitment site Glassdoor. \u201cAs a hiring manager, this is something I have seen myself in application materials that have clearly been customized using AI. For job seekers, that makes it hard for your application to stand out from your peers.\u201d<\/p>\n Instead, take it a step further by using AI to \u201cpersonalize your approach\u201d to the companies you\u2019re most interested in, recommends Daniel Chait, CEO of recruitment firm Greenhouse. You could, for example, get AI to read all of a company\u2019s reports for the past year or analyze its job openings to \u201chelp you improve your cover letter or the wording of your r\u00e9sum\u00e9 in very specific ways,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nProperly using AI to build your r\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/h2>\n