🤖 How to use ChatGPT for Job Searching and Recruitment

Welcome to this week’s edition! 👋

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, I’m sure I don’t need to introduce ChatGPT and its myriad of uses that have been cropping up in the web in the last few weeks. We’re approaching the moment when it will become paywalled (rumors are pricing it at 42$/month, although a free version seems will co-exist).

Given our topic of interest, I thought it would be useful to share a specific use for Job Searching (applications, resume building) as well as Linkedin profile optimization.

Teal (a sweet little platform for job-seekers) just published a short guide, but if you want the TLDR on the candidate side;

Cover Letters - ChatGPT can help you craft personalized cover letters based on the specific job posting and company information

Linkedin - You can use it for the Headline section, or the achievements, with prompts like "Write three resume achievements for Senior Marketing Manager and include success metrics with brand awareness.”

All of these will be just guide-rails but especially if you’re starting from scratch, can be useful to use the right structure, vary language.

For example, you can use it for action words brainstorming:

Or to understand Interview Tecniques:

For younger job seekers, the tool can also help to explore jobs and look for opportunities by skill-set, company, or interests:

On the recruiter side, there’s some interesting experiments on how to Design a recruitment process:

"You’re a Senior recruitment manager with a background in creating processes for organizations. You have helped organizations excel in hiring and created research-driven recruitment processes for the last 20 years. From junior engineers to senior executives. Your task is to create a recruitment process for the companies I present here. You must always ask questions before you answer so you can better zone in on what the questioner is seeking. Is that understood?"

Or focus on Job Descriptions:

1. Job analysis and position description: Determine the specific skills and qualifications needed for the software engineer roles, and create detailed job descriptions that accurately reflect the responsibilities and requirements of the positions.”So I simply asked it to elaborate on that.

“What questions can I ask the manager to capture the details of the job analysis?”

You can also have ChatGPT elaborate on things it mentioned previously, and it remembers what it once said; here, I ask it to go back and talk about time-to-fill, and it remembers that it previously talked about that.

You could also input data (!) from your ATS and ask it to analyze the data against the metrics it defined earlier - are you likely to hit your goals or not? What could be improved? Etc. etc.

A lot of tools are being developed on top of ChatGPT, but one to mention for this specific task is Trovinto - that makes this whole process even quicker by asking you a few details and automatically building an Interview Guide for each specific role, which you can the send to the candidate and get also automatically scored/ranked:

These are just some examples - but there’s tons of more opportunities like

• Facilitating Meetings

• Building Workshops

• Motivational Coaching

• Cold Outreach (both for Candidates and Recruiters)

Now as you can see - we’re at a turning point where information and technological asymmetry is being leveled - whether you are a recruiter or a job seeker. You can get access to such powerful data and intelligence whoever you are, and this is something that I think is unprecedented.

On one hand, this will mean that there could be more cheating (in assessments, and so on) but also that we will all be raising expectations from a basic and more ‘universal’ level of communication.

AI is famous for being a tool that helps ‘normalization’, i.e. averaging things out (remember Gaussian Distribution from school?) so in my view, we will need to:

Extreme Prompt Personalization - The more data you feed it, the more personalized it can be. Being able to use very surgical prompts is going to be one of the key skills of the future.

AI-Checking - There are some plagiarism-checking tools out there right now, some good some less. As it happens when new technology comes around, the initial period is about experimentation and speculation: this is when you can exploit most of its benefits because a) not everyone is using it just yet b) there is no regulation or counter-technology. For example, I’m sure that soon, ATS and other systems will include for checks on automation. Which will reduce the benefit, and again raise the bar on standards and expectations.

TLDR;

Use and experiment with ChatGPT until it’s free. It won’t be forever.

Think of how you can maximize your specific needs so it can be more custom in its output.

Reflect on how this could be a game-changer for your business, career or some specific aspects of these.

What’s it like to live in a world where everyone has super powers?

Please let me know in the comments if you have any other examples of how you’ve been using it / any other thoughts!