Job seekers are turning to AI for everything from career advice to cover letters, but according to experts, too many candidates are putting “blind faith” in AI tools.
According to the 2025 Market Trend Report from recruitment firm Career Group Companies, approximately 65% of candidates use AI at some point in the job application process.
Jen DeLorenzo, a career coach and founder of professional coaching business The Career Raven, says that job seekers can run into issues when they rely too heavily on AI.
She cautions that many AI tools are prone to hallucinating, or fabricating information in an effort to fulfill user requests. In DeLorenzo’s experience, when AI is asked to rewrite a resume to coordinate with a job description, “it is going to start to lie if the title doesn’t 100% align,” she says.
And even if all the information is accurate, AI-generated applications tend to share a certain uniformity, according to Jessye Kass Karlin, a fractional recruiter and former career coach.
