A real working moment: the task was not merely translation
We recently worked through a multilingual resume that needed to communicate a candidate's experience across markets. AI could translate the sentences quickly. The harder work was preserving the meaning of job titles, project accountability, scale of outcomes and technical context. We were managing how fairly the candidate could be understood, not simply replacing words. No identifying candidate details are included here.
Four ways value can disappear in translation
- A literal job title can overstate or understate the real scope
- Market-specific business terms may not map to the language used by the hiring team
- A result can lose its scale, timeframe or the candidate's personal contribution
- Fluent rewriting can accidentally introduce claims that do not exist in the source
Our operating principle: AI drafts; people remain accountable for facts
- Keep the candidate's original resume as the source of truth and clarify ambiguity with the candidate
- Minimise unnecessary personal data and work only within approved purposes and environments
- Use AI for a structured first draft, terminology consistency and cross-language gap checks
- Have a consultant review each statement against role knowledge and the actual hiring requirement
- Ask the candidate to approve the final version and ensure they can explain it naturally in interview
What AI does well—and what people must retain
AI is useful for consistent formatting, restructuring long material, comparing versions and improving readability. It cannot own the truth of an achievement, decide what genuinely represents the person or provide the candidate's consent. Speed should create more time for verification and conversation, not remove them.
Why this matters to employers
Hiring teams need evidence they can test, not merely polished prose. A resume checked for source consistency, role boundaries and outcome context produces better interview questions and reduces the risk of confusing language fluency with technical capability. Our use of AI is intended to improve the quality of decisions, not to process people as volume.
What candidates should expect from us
A resume is a compressed account of a person's working life. TAC does not add claims without the candidate's approval, fill uncertainty with invention or remove the human point of contact. Even where AI assists, a named consultant remains responsible for the conversation and final quality.