Can employers tell if I used AI on my resume or cover letter?
Employers usually cannot reliably prove you used AI, because AI detectors are inaccurate and produce false positives. What actually gives it away is generic, one-size-fits-all writing, so the fix is not to hide the AI but to tailor the content to the job and edit it until it sounds like you.
AI-detection tools are not trustworthy enough to act on. They flag plenty of human writing as AI and miss plenty of AI writing, which is why thoughtful employers do not lean on them. The thing recruiters genuinely react to is a letter that could have been sent to any company.
So aim for specific over polished. A cover letter that names the real role, reflects the posting, and includes a detail only you would know reads as authentic whether or not a tool helped draft it. Over-formal, cliche-heavy phrasing is the actual tell, and that is an editing problem you can fix.
Used well, AI is a drafting aid, not a disguise. GotHired tailors drafts from your CV and the specific posting precisely so the output is relevant rather than generic, but the finishing pass is still yours. Read it aloud, cut anything that is not you, and add the specifics.
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