Everyone’s résumé now sounds the same. Here’s how to sound like yours.

67% of job seekers now use AI to tighten language, tailor their CV or summarise their skills. None of that is cheating; most of it is sensible. But when everyone does it against the same job ad, every application comes back sounding like the ad. Employers report that applications have become genuinely difficult to tell apart. Michael Page Talent Trends 2026

Which means the advantage has moved. It is no longer in the polish. It is in the specifics a language model cannot invent for you.

• Real numbers. Covers per service. Team size. Stock value. Shifts per week. Not "high volume" — the number.
• The thing that went wrong. A supplier failed, someone called in sick on a Saturday night, the system went down. What you did next is the most revealing sentence in a résumé.
• The unglamorous specific. Which POS system. Which award you rostered under. Which certification, and when it expires.
• Where you actually started. Career changers routinely delete the most interesting part of their history.

• Before: "Passionate hospitality professional with proven experience delivering exceptional customer outcomes in fast-paced environments."
• After: "Ran Friday and Saturday service for a 90-seat venue. Four staff on floor, up to 260 covers a night. Rostered under the Restaurant Industry Award."
• Before: "Spearheaded operational improvements resulting in enhanced efficiency."
• After: "Changed the prep order so the salad station opened 20 minutes earlier. Cut Saturday wait times by about a third."

Let it fix the grammar and tighten the sentences. Then go back through and add the numbers, the specific system names and the one thing that went wrong. That is the version a person remembers.