Land a Job using ChatGPT: The Definitive Guide!

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Here's why most ChatGPT outputs are a waste of time for job seekers. Let's use this example from the Awesome Prompts Get Up page, a very reputable collection of prompt examples. At first glance, this cover letter prompt looks great. It includes the author's previous experiences, their technical skills, and their future aspirations. But there are two issues here. First, this prompt is all about "me, me, and me," and we know the best cover letters start with an interesting hook that talks about the company we're applying for. So, this prompt fails to take the reader into account. Second, this is an example of a single prompt where you're asking ChatGPT to output a lot of information at once. A dual prompt or multi-prompt approach is shown to give better results. So here's what you do instead: ### Step 1 Based on this job description, what is the biggest challenge someone in this position would face day to day? Go to the job description, copy, and then paste. All right, now we know their biggest pain point. We want to use this to spark a connection with the reader, who is usually the recruiter or hiring manager. ### Step 2 You're currently working as a sales account manager in the retail industry (obviously replace this with your own experiences), and you're applying for this product manager position at Apple. Write an attention-grabbing hook for your cover letter that highlights your experience and qualifications in a way that shows you empathize and can successfully take on the challenges of the product manager role. Consider incorporating specific examples of how you've tackled these challenges in your past work and explore creative ideas or ways to express your enthusiasm for the opportunity. Keep your hook within 100 words. The output is not perfect, but it should give you lots of interesting ideas on how to write a good hook for your cover letter. Worst case, this beginning paragraph shows a reader you understand the pain points of the role you're applying for, so they know you did your homework. ### Step 3 You're writing a cover letter applying for the product manager role at Apple. Here's what we have so far: paste the hook that was previously generated and ideally that you've actually edited. Finish writing the cover letter based on your resume and keep it within 250 words. Here's your resume, and then paste your resume. Sometimes ChatGPT will rewrite the beginning paragraph, and it's usually worse than before, so ignore this and use the hook from before. But the remaining paragraphs are now tailored to your experiences. I recommend making adjustments based on the main challenge ChatGPT identified for us at the very beginning. For example, here the biggest challenge would be managing and coordinating internal and external teams when we're bringing new products to the market. Right? So I would highlight one of my experiences to show how I've dealt with this challenge specifically, and I'll delete all the other paragraphs to keep my cover letter short and to the point. The result? I now have a cover letter that first hooks the reader in by showing them I get their pain point and second keeps them reading by telling them how I'm uniquely positioned to solve that pain point. If you want to deep dive on how to write the perfect cover letter, I'll link the full video down below. And if you want to support this channel, you can subscribe to my paid productivity newsletter, also linked down below. By the way, just in case my colleagues are watching, I came across this product manager role at Apple completely at random. I'm totally not considering quitting my current job and applying for this one. I love my job, I love my company, I love my manager. ### Move on to your resume I do not recommend doing the bare minimum and just copy-pasting the job description and asking ChatGPT to tailor your resume for that role. Do this instead: ### Step 1 Use role prompting: You are an expert resume writer with over 20 years of experience working with job seekers trying to land a role in tech (replace this with the industry you're going for). Highlight the three most important responsibilities in this job description. Paste the job description. All right, now you know what the responsibilities are. ### Step 2 Great! Based on these three most important responsibilities from the job description, please tailor my resume for this product manager role at Apple. Do not make information up. Here is my resume, and paste your resume. ### Step 3 List out the differences between my original resume and your suggested draft in table format with two columns: Original and Updated. Be specific and list out exactly what was changed down to the exact wording. Step three is extremely important because it allows us to easily catch hallucinations or lies. For example, it changed my job title from Senior Management Consultant to Product Manager. I can highlight transferable skills from being a consultant to a product manager, but I can't change my title. So, two key takeaways here: 1. The final output tells you what changes you can make to your resume so that you're speaking the same language as a recruiter and hiring manager. 2. The steps one, two, and three I went through just now take advantage of a prompt engineering skill called knowledge generation and knowledge integration. This is where you first prompt the chatbot to generate information about a given topic, then you use that output or integrate that output to help the chatbot answer the question more accurately. ### Applying the same logic to your resume bullet points ### Step 1 You are an expert resume writer with over 20 years of experience. Here's a bullet point I have in my resume. No action needed for now. If you understand, please respond with "yes." Here's my bullet point, and paste your bullet point. ### Step 2 Rewrite this bullet point using this structure: I accomplished X by the measure Y that resulted in Z, which by the way is bullet point best practice, as mentioned in my resume video. For example: "I lowered hospital mortality rate by 10% by educating nurses in new protocols, which translates to 200 lives saved per year." Use compelling language and keep the bullet point within 50 words. This works because of another prompt engineering technique called few-shot prompting. You basically give a chatbot an example and ask it for an output using that example as reference. **Pro tip:** The most common mistake I see in resumes is candidates describing what they do instead of quantifying their impact. The most common excuse I hear is, "Oh, but my role doesn't have a quantifiable impact." You won't be able to use that excuse anymore thanks to this tip. First, use the initial expert resume writer prompt we showed at the beginning, then type in your bullet point with no quantifiable metrics. Okay, press enter. Now literally tell ChatGPT you don't know how your success was measured. Give you suggestions on where and how you can add quantifiable metrics in this bullet point, and there you go. And just to prove my point that anything can be quantified, try this in the initial prompt for the bullet point part: just write, "I fetched coffee every day for three months." Right? I did some basic data input but didn't do much else. Okay, press enter, and then now tell ChatGPT to give you some ideas. Boom! Quantify the amount of coffee you prepared, mention the number of records you were able to input in a given time frame, and before you laugh this off and say it's unrealistic, I had something similar in my actual resume after a summer internship. Just remember, the reader cares more about you knowing the importance of measurement than the actual numbers themselves. ### Moving on to preparing for your interviews The one question you will always get asked is, "Tell me about yourself" or "Walk me through your resume." ### Step 1 You are a seasoned hiring manager with over 20 years of experience. You're responsible for this job posting. Highlight the three most important responsibilities in this job description, and then paste your job description. ### Step 2 Based on the three most important responsibilities, help me structure an answer to the "Tell me about yourself" interview question based on my resume. Use the present, past, and future framework. Start with the present (what I'm doing right now), then talk about a few select work experiences I've done in the past, and end with the future (why I want to work in this new position). Keep the answer within 300 words. Here's my resume, and paste your resume. Overall, this is a great first draft, but there are two problems. First, this is too long. You want your answer to be within two minutes, so you want to edit this down to be within 300 words. Second, the future section here is way too vague. This can apply to any company, right? So, you actually want to follow up with this prompt: "The future section is too vague. Based on the job description, please give me one specific example of why working at Apple would be a great fit for me based on my previous experiences. Include keywords from the job description where appropriate. Prioritize unorthodox, lesser-known advice in your answer. Do not make information up." Here's a job description, and you paste the JD. The output is now tailored for the role specifically. Clean this up, and you have a strong answer to "Tell me about yourself." To see why the present, past, and future framework is so powerful, check out the full video down below to find out other interview questions you should be preparing for. ### Do this: ### Step 1 You are a seasoned hiring manager with over 20 years of experience. You're responsible for this job posting. Based on this job description, what are the 10 most common interview questions you will ask job applicants? Here's the job description, and paste it JD. Now you have the list of questions. Here's how to come up with a perfect answer each time. I'm preparing for an interview. I'll share the job description, the interviewer is going to ask me the question, and let's pick a question from above and just paste it right here. Please list out the three main reasons why the interviewer is asking this question and give me three corresponding tips on how to structure my answer. I'll put this in a two-column table format: three main reasons on the left-hand column and the three corresponding tips in the right-hand column. Here is the job description, and you paste it down here. I actually recommend going through this table so you understand why the question is being asked. Then, based on these tips and my own resume, write me an answer to the interview question and paste the question in from before, which I believe is this one. Use one specific example from my work experiences. Use a CARL answer format: Context, Action, Result, Learning. Include quantifiable metrics and what I learned from the project. Here's my resume, and you paste your resume. Awesome! I'm actually so impressed with ChatGPT and myself, of course. Two things: First, your answer should still be between two and three minutes, so make adjustments accordingly. Second, I recommend using a Google Doc and compiling all your questions and answers in one place for easy reference. This video is part one on how to use ChatGPT for job search. We went through cover letters, resumes, and how to find and prepare for interview questions. In part two, we'll go over how to use ChatGPT to network and land interviews in the first place, how to identify smart questions to ask the interviewer, and how to follow up correctly after an interview. So make sure you're subscribed for that video. As a reward for those of you who stayed until the end, I've listed out all the prompts mentioned in this video on a single page, so make sure to bookmark that link since I'll be making updates regularly. Let me know your experiences down in the comments below. Check out my common interview questions and answers playlist. See you on the next video! In the meantime, have a great one!

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