It is a very tough time to be on the hunt for a brand new job. Posts are inundated with lots of of candidates, so you need to stand out. Nevertheless it’s straightforward to get disillusioned with pretend job advertisements and automatic mass-generated rejections — or worse, being ghosted.
Take a deep breath and switch to new instruments that can assist you land a job you’re keen on. Create your resume and a custom cover letter and curate your job search with the assistance of artificial intelligence.
AI instruments are being utilized in HR to streamline an in any other case arduous course of. Whereas new options are being rolled out to the market, there’s loads to love about ChatGPT. It is a catchall device for creating your paperwork, a analysis support, and a profession “counselor.” Simply know that like a whole lot of AI chatbots, it requires sensible prompts from you, which may imply some trial and error.
You may join an account to make use of a free model of ChatGPT, or pay $20 a month for extra options, like the latest information, precedence entry and picture era.
Here is methods to get employed with a bit serving to hand from AI — and for extra methods to use AI in job hunting, check out these 7 techniques we have tried and the way they work.
Inform ChatGPT about your self
Give it your elevator pitch — the rundown in your profession, expertise, ambitions and values. I am a journalist, however the identical processes apply no matter your discipline.
Immediate: “I am a [career] and have labored at [previous companies]. My prime abilities are [XYZ] and my aspirations are [1, 2, 3]. Are you able to counsel job roles, firm varieties and profession paths that greatest align with my expertise and objectives?”
Here is what I enter:
It got here again with detailed outcomes on some job roles, firm varieties and profession paths to focus on, comparable to prestigious publications, media corporations and publishing homes, assume tanks and startups.
Feed it your resume
To get much more particular, enter your resume into ChatGPT. Simply remember to take away delicate info you do not need within the AI, comparable to your contact particulars to avoid any future data breaches or pointless danger.
Immediate: “Right here is my resume. Present additional solutions.”
This time, it supplied (with out prompting) recommendation for enhancing my profession, in addition to much more detailed solutions for roles and profession paths. However I needed much more particular route.
Ask for recommendation
Given I have been a freelancer for 10 years — working as a reporter for publications and author for manufacturers — I needed to know the place ChatGPT thought I might be most profitable.
I requested: “What’s the strongest a part of my resume? Will I’ve extra success making use of for reporter or copywriter positions?”
Whereas I’ve a stable decade of company writing expertise, ChatGPT knew I might discover extra success with a reporter place, significantly cultural criticism. It made solutions on the strengths and alternatives I might have making use of for every sort of position, and it gave an general suggestion.
For much more specificity, I added: “Joan Didion is my profession inspiration.” In response, ChatGPT inserted a abstract of Didion and peppered mentions of her all through its solutions of jobs, corporations and careers, briefly explaining how they associated to her profession.
Here is a part of what it advised:
Generate a listing of prime corporations to focus on
Subsequent, I scanned by way of every thing ChatGPT had mentioned to this point, highlighting the roles or suggestions I preferred. Then, I fed it again into ChatGPT and requested it what prime corporations I ought to attain out to, including in the place I am based mostly.
Immediate: “I am most serious about roles comparable to senior journalist, function author, cultural critic, head of editorial, editorial director, content material director, and chief content material officer. What prime 30 corporations ought to I goal for a brand new job? I reside within the New York Metropolis space, however I work remotely.”
It gave me a whole lot of info, however no new concepts for corporations to focus on. I responded: “Present a secondary record of 30 corporations that are not so huge and is likely to be simpler to get a job at.”
The outcomes have been higher, with solutions cut up into classes for mid-sized and smaller publications, specialised and area of interest publications, and regional and native Publications. It additionally gave me methods on methods to apply at these publications, together with leveraging my community, showcasing my versatility, writing tailor-made pitches and emphasizing my portfolio.
A message to recruiters
I picked 10 corporations from ChatGPT’s record after which requested it to write down a message to a recruiter to introduce myself and categorical my curiosity.
Immediate: “Write a brief message to the recruiter on the following 5 corporations to introduce myself and categorical my curiosity: Narratively, Longreads, Mom Jones, Salon and The Lower.”
It got here again with a reasonably generic suggestion, so I pushed ChatGPT additional: “For the Narratively message, take away the generic intro and point out the earlier reporting I’ve accomplished on the corporatization of LGBTQ+ fertility, expatriatism and cultural fragmentation.”
I tweaked it a bit to sound extra pure and like me, which is the model I am going to inform ChatGPT to make use of for the opposite 4 messages.
After you have your polished messages, ship to the very best contact by way of LinkedIn DM or e-mail — it is likely to be value utilizing LinkedIn Premium throughout your job search.
Use this technique to immediately goal employers, personalizing your utility method and bypassing the job boards.
