How to Make a Resume in Using AI | Complete Guide for Freshers | The Valuation School

AI-Assisted Finance Resume and Interview Preparation

The video presents a four-part system for building a finance resume and preparing for job applications and interviews. Its central principle is to use AI to organize and improve accurate information supplied by the applicant, not to invent credentials or experience.

1. Build a Clear, ATS-Readable Resume

Resumes are often screened first by applicant tracking systems (ATS), which look for terms from the job description, and then by recruiters, who may scan them quickly. A resume should be easy for both software and people to read.

Recommended practices:

• Keep the document clean and minimal, and generally limit it to one page.
• Use selectable text rather than a photograph or scanned image.
• Remove unnecessary personal details, such as a photo, father’s name, date of birth, marital status, and full street address. Include your city, professional email, phone number, and LinkedIn profile.
• Replace generic career objectives and unsupported adjectives—such as “hard-working,” “honest,” or “quick learner”—with a short, role-focused professional summary.
• Structure the summary around the target role, your strongest relevant evidence, and your finance skills and tools.
• List education from the most relevant or advanced qualification to earlier schooling. If space is limited, avoid giving school marks unnecessary prominence.
• Don’t describe yourself simply as a “fresher.” Where relevant, include genuine experience from a family business, student organization, or other responsibilities. If you have no work experience, include substantial personal or academic projects.
• Describe each project by explaining what you did, how you did it, and the result. Include company names, methods, time periods, and measurable findings where accurate.
• Present skills as ordinary text rather than visual bars or graphics, which may not be machine-readable. List tools such as Excel, Tally, or Power BI separately.
• Keep certifications and achievements relevant. Briefly explain what a certification or project involved instead of listing minor workshops or unrelated activities.
• Write experience bullets with an action verb, a specific task, and a result or number where possible.

2. Create a Fact Sheet and Use AI to Draft the Resume

Before asking AI to format a resume, prepare a detailed fact sheet.

1. Fill in the fact sheet with your target role, contact details, location and relocation preferences, education, exams, experience, projects, achievements, skills, tools, and certifications.
2. If you’re updating an existing resume, provide it and note what has changed since it was last updated.
3. Attach the resume template and fact sheet to Claude, along with the old resume if applicable.
4. Ask the AI to identify missing information and ask clarifying questions—up to five at a time—before drafting.
5. Instruct it to use only your facts, preserve the template’s formatting, remove irrelevant sections, and flag unresolved gaps rather than inventing details.
6. Review the result carefully. Read every line aloud and remove any claim you cannot confidently defend in an interview.

3. Tailor the Resume to Each Job Description

Create a distinct, truthful resume for each role rather than sending the same document everywhere.

• Provide the master resume and the specific job description (JD).
• Ask AI to extract the role title, required and preferred skills, and keywords, then compare them with your resume.
• Strengthen wording only where you have relevant evidence.
• If a requirement is missing but you have related experience, ask for a truthful way to describe that experience.
• Keep genuine gaps visible; don’t add skills or experience you don’t have.
• Ask for a practical gap-closing plan, such as a short project or course you could complete before an interview.
• If a gap can’t be closed in time, prepare an honest explanation of what you have studied or done that is adjacent to the requirement.

4. Stress-Test the Resume and Practise Interviews

Use AI as a critical reviewer and mock interviewer.

• Ask it to identify the resume’s weakest points for the target role, including gaps, weak claims, missing internships, academic concerns, and career changes.
• Request a mock interview with a mix of technical and behavioral questions, asked one at a time.
• After each answer, have the AI score it, identify what is missing, and suggest a stronger version.
• Prepare an interview sheet with a concise “Tell me about yourself” response, likely resume-based questions, role-specific topics, and a pre-interview checklist.
• Take responsibility for weaknesses rather than avoiding or overexplaining them. Acknowledge the issue, briefly explain it, and describe what has changed or what evidence demonstrates progress.
• Practise answers aloud and make sure they remain truthful and natural.

5. Research the Company Before the Interview

Use web search to prepare a company briefing. Provide the role, company, and interview location, and ask for:

• A short explanation of what the company does.
• Relevant news from the last six months.
• Information about major competitors, where available.
• Senior people who may be worth researching.
• Useful topics to note and questions to ask the interviewer.
• Sources for the information, with unknown details marked as not found rather than guessed.

Final Cautions and Interview Preparation

• Never fabricate internships, skills, results, or other resume claims.
• Don’t add every keyword from a JD if it doesn’t reflect your experience.
• Be prepared to demonstrate any listed skill—for example, by explaining a DCF model or performing an Excel task.
• Use AI to prepare, but give your own answers during the interview; don’t rely on AI live.
• Before the interview, review your mock-interview answers and company briefing, practise your introduction aloud, check for relevant sector news, and revisit the questions you plan to ask.
• Use the resume template and prompts as drafting aids, but verify every detail yourself.

Speakers and Sources Featured

• Parth Verma — the presenter, identified in the closing sign-off.
• Claude — the AI tool demonstrated for resume drafting, job-description tailoring, interview practice, and company research.
• Whisper Flow — mentioned as a speech-to-text tool for dictating answers.
• The Valuation School resume template and fact sheet — the materials used in the demonstrated resume workflow.
• ATS software and recruiters/HR professionals — discussed as audiences that screen resumes; they are not presented as speakers.