🛠️ Career Strategy

A/B Test Your Resume

I constantly hear career coaches saying things like “you always need to put a summary on your resume” or “you absolutely must list out your skills.”

I despise this. Because, in this economy, there are no silver bullets.

What might work for you might not work for your friend Bob. Every combination of specific person and specific job opening is unique — therefore, the only real solution to optimize your job search is to collect data.

My suggestion is to treat your resume like marketing collateral and A/B test. Plan to apply to 90 jobs (even ones you’re not in love with) simply to collect data. For each batch of 15, vary one thing about your resume, whether the length, inclusion of a summary, style of writing bullets, etc.

Take meticulous notes of which resume versions go to which applications. Over time, based on what (or whether) you hear back, you can determine which version is performing best. Keep iterating from there.

🤖 AI Tactic

Simulate any human mind with AI 🧠 

That headline is a bit of a lie… my bad. This approach only really works on people who have a significant online presence (e.g. social media, blog, podcast, public speaking, etc).

But with AI Deep Research, you can basically simulate a useful caricature of a human mind. Here’s an example prompt to run with Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Research for the board members of a company:

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⚡️ Execution Insight

Atomic Tasks

You may have read James Clear’s book Atomic Habits. While it’ll help with your personal productivity, I’ve become obsessed with the idea of “Atomic Tasks” to improve your work life.

In the AI class I teach, I often hear students complaining about how their prompts are falling short, that AI tools are not capable of solving complex, multi-step processes.

The underlying problem is almost always that the process documentation is not detailed enough.

Try using Atomic Tasks, where each step in a process:

1. Can be completed in a 30 minute sitting

2. Without a handoff to another person

3. Is a single, self-contained idea

For example, if you can review a contract and email feedback to the counterparty in 30 min, you actually have 3 tasks:

1. Review contract

2. Draft & send feedback

3. Wait on response

Documenting process with this level of granularity will help you train new employees faster, outsource more effectively, and delegate to AI with greater success, because it forces you to lay bare all of the extra context and instructions that are normally trapped in people’s heads.

🧠 Curiosity Corner

You know what celebrity deepfakes are for… learning math & physics?!

People are using tools like Yapper to create celebrity deepfakes. Normally, deepfake creators have lewd or malicious purposes in mind, but these videos are purely educational.

Check out this video starring AI-generated Sydney Sweeney and Drake teaching about vectors.

💼 Job Board

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That’s it for this week.

-Rahul from The DesAI Digest

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