Get AI help with your resume without sharing your contact details
Your experience is what the AI needs. Your phone number and home address aren’t.
The short answer
An AI can rewrite your summary, tailor bullets to a job posting or draft a cover letter without knowing your phone number, email, home address or LinkedIn. Take the contact block out before you paste, and add it back to the final version yourself (or let Hushtag do both).
Why it’s worth the 30 seconds
- A resume is an identity kit. Name, phone, email, address and work history together are exactly what scammers and phishers use.
- You’ll paste it many times. Job hunting means a new version for every posting, so the same details end up in dozens of chats.
- Chats are kept. They stay in your account history and may be used for training depending on your settings. See how to turn that off.
Step by step
- Remove the contact block: phone, email, street address, postal code, LinkedIn or portfolio links.
- Consider employer names. They’re usually fine and help the AI. If a past employer is sensitive or tiny, swap it for “a regional dental clinic”.
- Paste the job posting separately. It has no personal details, so the AI can match your experience to it.
- Ask for specifics: “Rewrite my summary in 3 lines for this posting, keep it truthful, and list any skills I should add if I have them.”
- Fact-check every line. AI loves to invent achievements. Never send a claim you can’t back up in an interview.
What it looks like
A made-up example run through Hushtag’s detector:
You paste:
What the AI sees:
The AI rewrites the summary around #PERSON_1, and Hushtag puts your real name and contact details back in the answer, so the result is ready to copy into your resume.
Cover letters and emails to recruiters
The same applies to recruiter emails you paste in for a reply: the recruiter’s name, phone and email are someone else’s details. Hushtag hides them as #PERSON_2, #PHONE_2 and so on, and restores them in the draft.