This is a weird one to admit but here goes. Spent the last few years home with kids, which was the right call, but now I'm in this fuzzy inbetween place where I'm starting to think about what comes next professionally. My background is HR and recruiting, which means I spent years evaluating other people's career gaps on paper and now I get to experience one myself. Very humbling, not going to lie.
Anyway I've been using a few different AI tools to stresstest my own resume and do mock interview prep, and it's genuinely strange how useful it's been. Not perfect, not even close. But it's like having a brutally honest mirror that doesn't get tired of your followup questions at 11pm.
What's interesting is that from an HR angle I keep noticing how the AI frames employability: what it treats as a gap versus a credential, how it weights certain language. It reflects back some real assumptions that were baked into recruiting culture for years, and it makes me wonder how much of that bias got trained into these models, or whether I'm just projecting patterns I already know.
The whole thing feels a little like watching your old industry from the outside through a very weird telescope.
Has anyone with a nontechnical background found themselves using AI in a way that accidentally became a critique of their own field?
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