ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) platforms simplify complex processes with just a few targeted and well-worded prompts. As a very advanced chatbot from the AI research lab OpenAI, ChatGPT has proven highly useful in people’s daily activities and school or work requirements, such as searching for a job or creating a resumé.
If you’re not up to hiring professional resume writers, you might want to try your job search with the GPT. Here’s how you can take advantage of the platform’s features.
Research About a Company
While job seekers can do this through Google or other search engines, the usual process entails typing search engine-optimized keywords to get the specific results related to the job they want. Search engine results pages (SERPs) list down sites that contain general postings of job openings, and the job seeker has to enter those sites to check details.
ChatGPT does not have access to job postings on company domains, but its nature of scouring millions of texts from websites across the globe allows it to curate sites where you can find the job openings you’re looking for. If you make your prompts specific enough to make ChatGPT understand your preferences, it can give you sites that fit your search goal.
It can also take your search a notch higher by showing institutions where workers in the same profession or field attend training or networking events, letting you know where you can potentially establish a connection for job opportunities.
When researching a company in preparation for an interview, ChatGPT shows supplemental information about the company that you might not find on the company’s website. This helps give you more insight into the organization you plan to join.
- ChatGPT tells you where or how to find the job openings, not what the openings are.
- ChatGPT curates related information about the subject of your research (i.e., the company), even if you did not specifically request it.
Create a Resume and Cover Letter
Now that you’ve found a promising opportunity to apply to, you don’t have to leave GPT. It can help you write a winning resumé and cover letter. By feeding as much information about your current and past work experience, you can guide the chatbot to package a letter and resumé that’s pretty much on a par with the best resume writing services.
ChatGPT has “lived up” to the expectations in terms of language, flow, and format. However, seasoned recruiters noticed that purely GPT-generated resumés and cover letters lack the anecdotal information and human-related experiences that back up the skills and capabilities presented on paper. You can fill this gap by further tweaking your prompts or doing follow-up prompts to improve on generated texts. You may also add the details of your experiences after the first output and ask ChatGPT to incorporate them into the next version.
- ChatGPT can provide a template for the best way to present your credentials according to your target company or industry.
- ChatGPT can improve on its output multiple times with your added context and anecdotal information.
- ChatGPT can also create compelling titles or headings for your documents.
Prepare for a Job Interview
According to Indeed.com, this is one of the most popular job search assistance features of GPT. You can get the chatbot to prepare you for a job interview by generating sample questions a recruiter might ask. You may also ask how a particular question can be best answered.
However, without proper input from you, the tool can churn out very general pieces of information since it’s simply collecting and packaging what’s available online or what its training source uploaded to the program. You will likely get nothing much out of it during your first attempts. But ChatGPT’s iterative nature allows it to improve over several similar sessions.
The key is to keep on feeding the same questions, instructions, and prompts, but with slight variations in sentence construction and with additional context. If you request sample interview questions, provide the company name, job title, and whether the role is a managerial one. You may also add the specific industry or location if the company or interviewer is in another country. This gives ChatGPT a hint of the level of questions that might be thrown your way.
- ChatGPT is best used as a generator of possible questions that a recruiter will ask, but it’s not always a successful mock interview partner.
- With iteration, enough input, and more specific prompts from you, ChatGPT can access the best sample questions or answers applicable to your job interview.
OpenAI continues to develop and improve features within ChatGPT. Its latest rollout, the GPT-4o image generation, pulled 1 million users to its site within only an hour. There’s no doubt that ChatGPT will soon build on its knowledge base and capabilities for quality job search, resumé writing, and perhaps career planning—with your help.
