While a freshly printed diploma is the last thing our students walk away from WT with, there’s another document in their other hand that they need to have been working on long before graduation. That is their resumé, which, as we all know, details their prior academic and work experiences, their special skills, and their professional plans.
But in the age of AI, much has changed when students submit their resumés, either by emailing or uploading them to corporate websites. Today, it is just as likely that a machine powered by artificial intelligence (AI) is reading and filtering those incoming resumés, as it is for a human to be examining them. Depending on how a company instructs its AI software to retain or kick out resumés, it is possible for job candidates to wind up in the discard pile through now fault of their own.
It’s just that their resumé didn’t wasn’t optimized for machine reading.
Fortunately, there’s a solution for this problem, and one of the most prominent of third-party providers is Quinncia, an online tool that will scan resumés before they are submitted, and offer valuable suggestions on how they can be improved. The College of Business recently inked a four-year agreement with Quinncia to provide these services for up to 2000 students each academic year.

Quinncia is available exclusively for College of Business students via the Office of Career and Professional Development, and goes above and beyond the normal resumé and interviewing services they provide students. Kat Kane, Senior Director of the OCPD, serves and liaison and helps students utilize it. “I’m really excited for Quinncia to bridge the gap for our students,” said Kane.
“Essentially, our resumés have not been up to par. We were not competitive. Our employers were pretty blunt and clear. Our students just weren’t doing a good job communicating their knowledge and expertise,” she continued. “Quinncia does amazing things. A student will upload their resumé and say what type of job you are looking for. It will then look for essential and technical skills in your resumé as it scans it.”
Quinncia will then inform the student if they are missing important skills or have other gaps. It will then advise the student to either find an internship or other such opportunity to gain those skills, or, if the student omitted declaring them in the first place, push them to reword and rewrite the relevant portion of their resumé. The goal is to make the resumé more attractive to recruiters.
The software has a complete taxonomy of KSAs, or Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities. Students are able to continuously upload resumés for up to a year, reflecting either revised resumés or different versions submitted to different prospective employers.
Quinncia does not, though, try to churn out resumés that are artsy and creative, especially because AI programs screening resumés are not able to pick up on that nuance. Thus, the tried and true “dull and boring” resumé of old is still perfectly apropos. It’s just that the correct keywords will be included.
“The key going forward is that you are talking to both the AI, but also a very skilled hiring manager. The idea is you are going to pass your resumé through the AI, that’s going to get you in the door to even be put on the desk of the hiring manager,” Kane elaborated.
And if all it takes is scanning your resumé through a tool like Quinncia to be on level footing with other candidates, this will be a great investment by the COB. Interested COB students should visit the OCPD on the first floor of the Classroom Center, or contact Kat Kane (kkane@wtamu.edu; 806.651.2345).