Integrating AI-facilitated interviews to enhance CV writing

Faculty face challenges integrating professional development, such as curriculum vitae (CV) preparation, into curricula. For instance, adequate time and personnel may not be available for training and feedback. Faculty designed an artificial intelligence (AI)-facilitated activity to engage more students to update their CV and reflect on their community introductory pharmacy practice experience (CIPPE).

Second-year students in the Personal and Professional Development (PPD) course participated in an AI-facilitated interview with prompts designed to ask about key components of their CIPPE experience. The initial prompt asked interview questions with follow-up, and the final prompt drafted bullet points for the CIPPE section of their CV.

One hundred sixty-nine out of 200 students (84.5%) had a section with the CIPPE on their CV, and 123/169 (72.8%) had bullets points and/or a description of their experience included. These numbers are higher than the 2023 course with 157 out of 226 students (69.5%) listing the CIPPE on their CV (p < 0.001) and 79 out of 157 (50.3%) providing a description (p < 0.001). Of the 123 students in the 2024 course with bullet points and/or a description of their CIPPE, 49/123 (39.8%) matched the content generated by the AI interview.

This AI-facilitated approach provided students with the opportunity to build their self-awareness and led to more students providing detailed updates on their CVs. This innovation builds on previous literature that emphasizes leveraging AI in professional development but has not described this specific approach.