I recently sat down to help a friend fix a résumé that hadn’t received a response from recruiters for eight months. She was running marketing at a mid-size software company, and she used Claude and ChatGPT almost every day for tasks like writing the first drafts for campaign briefs, cleaning up messy spreadsheet exports, and turning three competitor websites into a one-page positioning summary —all before lunchtime. It was kind of a steady loop, but recently things felt stuck. She’d even built a couple of Claude workflows, which her team used every day. But would you believe that none of all that appeared anywhere on her résumé?
So, we added 4 lines describing what she actually did with those tools and what the results were. Guess what? She had two first-round interviews within a month.
This only shows that this year, adding artificial intelligence tools on a résumé is as important to almost any tech or marketing role as “being fluent in Microsoft Office” used to be.
Why AI skills are worth the space
The demand isn’t subtle. PwC’s 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer Report, which read through more than a billion job ads, found that roles asking for AI skills carry a wage premium that’s climbed every year, reaching 62% in its most recent edition.
Microsoft and LinkedIn’s Work Trend Index put a sharper point on it as early as two years ago: 66% of leaders said they wouldn’t hire someone for a role without AI skills, and 71% said they’d take a less experienced candidate who has them over a more experienced one who doesn’t.
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