Can ChatGPT help you land your next dream job?
Remember when “you’ve got mail” felt like cutting-edgꦕe technology?
Now, a little thin𓃲g called ChatGPT is poised tওo change the way we work.
If you’re not familiar, a brief primer:
It’s free, or $20 a month for premium, and uses mac꧃hine learning to understand natural language processing.
That makes it possible for t𝄹he ch🌜atbot to compose humanlike prose.
Lest you think i🐎t’s a ꦗtemporary craze, Cliff Jurkiewicz, vice president of global strategy at, a global HR tech company based in Philadelphia, emphasized that in 2023, we’ll see businesses look to the ability of generative AI to perform tasks better and faster, and with increasing levels of precision.
“Its adoption will be unlike anything we’ve seen before and it’s already started to prove this,” he said. “ChatGPT is a real-world example of generative AI, and itꦬ gained one million users in just five days in December 2022.”
In comparison, it🌼 took Netflix more than 3 years to reach one million sꦇubscribers.
When Jurkiewicz first logged into ChatGPT, he asked it to write him a song, a job description and a screenplay, but, “it really needed to be prꦚompted and fed examples to learn my style,” he recalled.
That’s why Jurkiewicz recommends that people using ChatGღPT share ꧑10 writing examples with the program and prompt it to “analyze my tone” so that it becomes more personal.
In the field♐ of human resources, ChatGPT “can change the future of job recruiting by using it to ꧑reach out to candidates, write job descriptions and generate interview questions,” said Mitch Chailland, president of in New Orleans.
Job seekers, meanwhile, can 🔯use the tool to help prepare for interviews, enhance résumés, match cover letters to job descriptions and 😼improveprofiles, among other things.
Ahead, what to expect from ChatGPT ꦇin the job aꦆpplication landscape, from HR pros.
Buff up your job application
Yep, experts say it’s kosher: Jurkiewicz equates using ChatGPT when job hunting to using an autocorrect spelling and grammar to𝔉ol.
Generative AI can𒊎 also help candidates identify skills, competencies and even important keywords that are often missed by job candidates.
“These tools, if used responsibly, can act as a powerful agent, helping the candidate represent themselves in ways they 🌞may have not thought possible,” said Ju🍌rkiewicz.
Chailland also thinks using ChatGPT on a job application is OK, but cautioned that you’ll still want to make sure𓃲 your writing is personable, makes sense and highlights your personality.
“To best utilize ChatGPT, have it proofread your work, or help optimize for a particular keyword rather than asking it 🍌to draft your cover l𒉰etter or response to an application question,” he said.
Consider it your assistant in a job search
ChatGPT can help with overcoming writer’s block, researching alternative job titles, uncovering similar jobs in a new industry, creating a list of target companies and making prospective i💛nterview questions. But, how you go about landing that dream job hasn’t changed.
“You still need to do your homework to get ahead,” said Morris Isaacson i🎐n Montebello, NY, executive vice president of sales at HR platform .
But, “for motivated job hunters, ChatGPT can be a vaꦐluable information tool that makes the process easier. They can ask ChatGPT to research the role and identify key talking points for an interview, or request an analysis of keywords. They could even ask ChaജtGPT to assess their résumé and suggest improvements.”
Whatever ChatGPT gives you, proceed cautiously.
“Remember, AI-generated information is sourced from a data set that is f💟ar from perfect or even complete. Don’t assume it to be 100% accurate,” said Isaacson.
Use it to draft work emails
Bots to the rescue, again.
“ChatGPT can be utilized to take the routine and repetitive elements out of🎃 drafting templated or scripted emails and cover letters,” said Isaacson. “However, it’s always important to vie🌌w the output of ChatGPT as a ‘first pass’ that will require a person to review before sending.”
Not all email communication can, or should, beꦅ handled by ChatGPT.
“Many business emails are o𝔉f a specific nature and require information not discoverable via ChatGPT’s data set,” he said. “And with some subjects, sensitivity and a human touch is a must.”
Chailland also advised proceeding with caution.
“If you input any confi🎐dential employer information, the AI can learn from that and could create legal issues,” he said♊.
Never use ChatGPT for this one thing
Firing employees via AI is a no-no.
So if you have the dreaded task of giving so🌠meone on your team the ax, stick to your own lower-tech, albeit human, devices.
“Not only would this not be best practice (for many reasons including liability and erroneous responses), this scenario r෴epresents a general misunderstanding of what ಌAI is intended to do,” said Isaacson. “The employee who is being let go is a person who deserves the respect of being communicated with by another person, not a text message or AI bot.”