I used AI to help build my resume and beat 2,000 applicants — here's how

Back in May 2025, I beat over 2000 applicants to get a 6-figure remote Data Scientist position - with no connections, ivy-league degree or FAANG on my resume. Just cold-applied with 3 years of experience at a smaller private company you've never heard of. And that role too was a remote data analyst position I also got via cold-applying. I want to provide some of the best advice I can give to job-seekers today. 1. Don't Stuff Keywords, Do Understand Requirements Usually what the employer really wants in a candidate is not going to be written in bold with the exact tech stack and projects they want to put you on. This is too much info to give to competitors and also too much for the candidate to create an ideal but vacuous profile. So they tell you a little bit (e.g. maybe "experience with bots" in an ads data scientist role). But what's really going to get their attention is a bullet point about building a specific bot-detection algorithm. Or they might mention "geospatial experience" a