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Using ChatGPT to write resumes and cover letters

Job hunting can feel like a job of its own, which is why some are using ChatGPT to write resumes and cover letters. Learn how AI can make the process of creating these documents easier as well as its limitations.

ChatGPT has become a popular choice for all kinds of content creation . Here’s what you need to know about using ChatGPT for your resume or cover letter.

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Should I use AI in my job search?

The process of searching for a new job is rarely easy. Not only are you constantly checking job boards to find positions that both interest you and fit your skillset, but you’re also updating your resume and cover letter with every new application and editing these documents to suit each potential employer.

Using AI like ChatGPT for your job search can help you if you’re truly stumped for how to express your thoughts. Of course, it isn’t foolproof, either. Because this technology is so new, its output won’t be entirely accurate, and is no substitution for putting in the work yourself. The AI does the best it can with the information it’s given, which means it’s up to the job seeker to be both specific and accurate when inputting prompts, and to make any necessary adjustments to achieve a specific result.

If you plan to use ChatGPT for resume writing or crafting a cover letter, make sure you have a solid understanding of how to write both documents. After all, they’re a potential employer’s first impression of you; if you’re not well-represented because you relied on AI instead of your own skills, you’re not likely to get the job. ChatGPT can be useful for helping you come up with new ways to talk about your relevant skills and experience, but your personal touch is what will really make your resume and cover letter stand out.

Tips for writing a resume and cover letter

Whether you’re editing existing documents or starting from scratch, here are some tips to make sure that your resume and cover letter can help you make a good first impression.

• Use simple, professional formatting. Use a template to ensure that you’re delivering something that makes you look your best and is easy to read.
• Less is more. A busy resume can feel overwhelming for a recruiter. Show results where you can and leave off any unnecessary details.
• Proofread. Even if you’re using ChatGPT to help you with your job search, you’ll still need to look over the results to not only make sure that the content is accurate, but that it’s grammatically correct and sounds like you.
• Insert yourself. Make sure that your resume and cover letter are representative of you and not a chatbot. Your own personality should shine through, even if you’ve used AI to help you put things together.

At the end of the day, recruiters want to learn about you and whether you’re a good fit for a job. The best way for you share that information with them is with a well-written cover letter and a resume that’s easy to read .

What are the drawbacks of using ChatGPT to write a resume or cover letter?

Leveraging AI like ChatGPT to write your resume or cover letter does have a few pitfalls:

• This AI is very new technology and is certainly not foolproof. It’s constantly being tested and adjusted due to its newness.
• It may accidentally generate inaccurate statements due to its limited knowledge of the world after 2021.
• If you’re not proofreading carefully, you may gloss over some major errors. ChatGPT may generate content that is biased or harmful and it’s on you to catch those statements and not use them in your resume or cover letter. The AI may also repeat information between sections of a generated resume.
• The AI works with the information it’s given. The quality of the output depends entirely on the quality of the input.
• If you’re not specific enough when entering your prompts, you will get vague, generalized output. Similarly, if your prompt is poorly formatted, the AI may not understand what you’re asking for.
• ChatGPT may embellish some of your accomplishments. While it may be tempting to leave these in place, it’s never a good idea to lie about what you have and have not done.

This AI is not a replacement for doing the actual work yourself, but it can be a useful tool during the process of looking for a new job. Only you can truly know what you’ve achieved through your work and life experiences, and you’re the one who is best suited to crafting any type of resume or cover letter.

Entering resume and cover letter prompts into ChatGPT

The goal of using ChatGPT to write your resume or cover letter is to lessen the stress of creating these documents. But that doesn’t mean you’re off the hook. You still must give the AI very clear instructions about what you want it to generate.

Prompts for using AI to write a resume

You can use AI to review an existing resume and provide feedback or tailor your resume to a specific posting. Make sure you ask very clear questions about what you’re looking for, as well as providing very clear guidance to the AI about what its role is. In both scenarios you’ll need to include your resume in its entirety, but if you’re looking for tailored edits, you should also include the job posting.

Prompts for these scenarios might look like:

• I am going to provide my resume and want you to act as a reviewer and provide feedback on it. How can I make it more readable? Are there any action verbs I should use? Am I using too many buzzwords?
• I will provide you with a job description for a position I am applying for. Understand the key points and requirements for this role and summarize them. Then review my resume and provide feedback on how to tailor it for this job.

These might seem overly specific but if you’re not specific enough, you won’t get the response you’re looking for.

Prompts for using AI to write a cover letter

When using ChatGPT to work on your cover letter for a specific job, you’ll need to provide:

• Your resume
• The job description of the role you’re interested in
• Information about what kind of tone you’d prefer

You can also ask the AI to review your cover letter for readability and help you get through a bout of writer’s block.

Prompts for these sorts of asks might look like:

• Write a cover letter for a [position] role at [Company] in a professional tone. Use my resume and the job description as a reference.
• I want you to review my cover letter for readability and relevance to a job post. I will share the job post as a reference. Tailor my cover letter for the job referenced in the post and adjust wording to make it more relevant.

These prompts may feel awkward to write, almost as though you’re explaining something to a small child. But the clearer and more specific you are, the more pleased you’re likely to be with the results.

While AI like ChatGPT is making some waves on the tech scene, it doesn’t totally replace human writing and editing skills, especially when it comes to resumes and cover letters. It certainly has value but comes with a few caveats. Use ChatGPT with caution, and don’t forget to keep an eye out for grammatical errors .

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Key Takeaways

• Use ChatGPT to analyze job descriptions and identify key skills and requirements.
• Let ChatGPT create an initial draft of your resume and edit it to add personal details and make it more refined.
• ChatGPT can help optimize your existing resume by identifying important qualifications and providing tips for improvement.

Putting together a stand-out resume is crucial when you want to make a stellar first impression on potential employers. However, crafting a resume that actually showcases your skills and accomplishments—without reading like a boring, cookie-cutter document—can be tricky. This is where ChatGPT comes in handy.

We used the free version of ChatGPT (GPT 3.5) for illustrations throughout this piece. While it's decent, we expect you’ll get better results using the premium version of ChatGPT (GPT 4).

Use ChatGPT to Analyze the Job Description

First, copy and paste the entire job description for the role you’re applying for directly into ChatGPT. This will give it the inside scoop on exactly what the employer seeks. Ask ChatGPT to scan through the wording and pull out the key skills, requirements, and responsibilities that it notices.

Let’s assume I was to apply for the role of digital marketing manager that I found on LinkedIn. I tried to have ChatGPT analyze the job description by prompting it: “Based on the job description below, please identify and highlight the key skills and requirements the employer seeks in bold.” ChatGPT did just as I requested—determining the most essential qualifications and competencies sought by the employer.

Next, I gave ChatGPT a hypothetical professional background for the next exercise. I laid out a few years of experience as a digital marketing manager at previous companies, key projects I led, big wins for clients, and all the usual résumé checklist items—just to set the table with a sample candidate profile. Armed with that, I told ChatGPT: "Based on my work history as a digital marketing manager below, do I meet the requirements for this position?" Putting it to the test to see how I'd stack up.

After crunching my background side-by-side with the job description details, it looks like I didn’t completely knock it out of the park. ChatGPT responded along the lines that my experience sounded pretty relevant but asked me to fill in a few gaps to get the full picture before it could make the call. It wanted more info on things like confirming if I directly managed a marketing team before, providing my current geographical location, and elaborating on my experience with remote collaboration tools and team communication.

No problem! I quickly padded it with some made-up details about the senior team I supposedly managed and the collaboration tech I'm skilled in. For good measure, I threw in Austin as my location. ChatGPT came back, acknowledging I seem qualified enough now with that extra context.

Create a Resume from Scratch with ChatGPT

Here's the fun part. I let ChatGPT take a first pass at writing my resume. I prompted it to: “craft a resume that fits the job I’m applying for based on the information I provided before.” And it definitely took a first crack at it. ChatGPT put together a chronological resume, organizing my hypothetical background into nicely formatted sections: professional summary, work experience, education, skills, and additional information.

Obviously, to protect my personal information, I didn't provide ChatGPT with any real specifics like my name, address, contact details, etc. The last thing you'd want is your data to get stored on some server to train algorithms without your permission! So, for privacy's sake, it’s best to feed it career details only. Once you like the outcome, you can edit and polish ChatGPT's draft, adding specifics like your personal details and tweaking anything that needs finesse (outside of ChatGPT, though). Use your human judgment to perfect the end result.

You Can Use ChatGPT to Strengthen Your Existing Resume

If you already have a resume you want to improve, you can use ChatGPT to help you polish and optimize it. Copy and paste your resume and the job description into ChatGPT. This will give it the information that it needs to work with. Then, tell ChatGPT to scan your resume and the job description and identify the key skills and requirements the employer seeks. You can prompt it with something like: “ChatGPT, here’s my resume: [Insert Resume] and here’s the job description [Insert Description]. Now, identify the most important qualifications, skills, and requirements the employer is seeking. Then give me some tips to tweak my resume to really highlight and optimize it for those key things they want.”

ChatGPT will dig into all that info and give you back some great pointers on little tweaks you can make, key stuff you should emphasize, or areas where you should elaborate on your experience. It can help you reshape things so your resume looks like the perfect, personalized fit for what they’ve asked for in a job listing.

ChatGPT Can Optimize Your Resume to Be ATS-friendly

Applying for jobs at big corporations can feel like tossing a message in a bottle into the sea these days. Your precious resume often has to run through an Applicant Tracking System (ATS), which is basically an automated software bouncer that decides if you get to talk to a human recruiter or not. These ATS bots scan all incoming resumes, looking for specific skills, keywords, experience levels, etc., based on what the hiring manager is looking for. It’s how big companies deal with the tsunami of applications flowing in.

The problem is that many resumes never make it past ATS because they don’t have the exact key phrases the system’s programmed to find or aren’t formatted in a way it can easily scan. All that time crafting a personal, eye-catching resume for nothing.

Luckily, ChatGPT can jump in to help make sure your resume makes it through screening. Just copy/paste your resume text into ChatGPT and ask it to “review my resume to determine its compatibility with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).” It’ll ping back the key skills and experience you’ll want to emphasize in your resume and any industry lingo and job requirements to work into the text so all the bots recognize you as having what they are scanning for.

Make the changes ChatGPT suggests so everything the hiring manager cares about is clear and optimized for ATS friendliness. Do a once over yourself to polish the language and convey your awesome personality.

ChatGPT is more than just a resume builder. It's also a friendly companion that can help you with various aspects of your job search, such as preparing for interviews, writing cover letters, negotiating salaries, and more. Just make sure to put your own human spin on any final output it gives you.

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According to Jobscan, over 97% of Fortune 500 companies are using ATS (applicant tracking system) software, an automated system that screens candidates for keywords. For savvy job applicants, using ChatGPT, Bard and other AI tools can help tailor your CV to what the software seeks. In a tough market, the job search has turned into a battle of the bots. Today, software and machine learning is being used by candidates and companies alike. Here’s how you can use ChatGPT to write your résumé, with three step-by-step prompts designed to give you an advantage in the world of ATS and AI.

Benefits of Writing Your Resume with ChatGPT

ChatGPT can be useful in generating text, but the text on your resume needs to fit within a format. That format, and guidance, can be found on several websites that can help - including Resume Genius , Resume Nerd , Grammarly and Career.io . These sites and others offer AI-powered platforms to help give your CV a boost. But, as with any written assignment, remember the first rule of writing: It will never be your best work until someone else (with a pulse) has read it. Placing your career in the hands of AI might be a good move, but just make sure it’s not the only move you make. Do you have a trusted advisor, coach or executive recruiter who will weigh in on what you (or your bot) have written?

Save Time with ChatGPT - writing a résumé from scratch can be time consuming. Creating takes more time than editing, so the time savings with AI can’t be denied, according to new guidance from FlexJobs.

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Quickly Tune your Résumé to the Opportunity - you can easily and quickly adjust to the specifics of a new role, with a few modifications. The key is: understanding how to work with AI. “It’s what you learn after you know it all that really counts,” according to basketball legend, John Wooden. Here’s how you can learn to bring your talents to life, with guidance from ChatGPT (and other AI platforms).

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You can turn your résumé summary in to a powerful representation of your skills and talents. A sample prompt, before you feed the bot your CV: “Based on this original summary, and the following resume, create an improved and high-impact summary for me. Include these desirable words and phrases , using data to support soft skills wherever possible, and optimize for both SEO and ATS keywords.” Remember, ChatGPT is like a blender. You have to put in the ingredients you want, to get the output you need. FlexJobs says, “AI won’t understand anything about your history that you don’t tell it.”

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Step 3: be consistent.

Have you ever seen a résumé that looks like it was written by three different people? Consistency counts. FlexJobs says that you can use AI tools to create a polished and uniform tone for your résumé. And using AI is a great way to ramp up your productivity .

Time savings, consistency, and clarity: just three of the many advantages that can be found when using ChatGPT, or other similar AI based tools, to write your résumé. And let’s face it, in this job market - where almost all employers are using some form of ATS analysis to screen candidates - having AI input on your CV might be exactly what your career needs.

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How to use ChatGPT to write your resume

Back-to-school season is here, which means applications to their next academic ventures, internships, or first jobs are top of mind for many students. Whether you're seeking to launch your career or you've been in the labor market for decades, there's one thing we can all agree on -- creating a resume that attracts the eye of recruiters is a challenge.

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Landing a job that aligns with your qualifications and expectations is hard enough. You also have to sum up all your professional experiences and strengths in one application -- and the heart of that application is your CV or resume. 

The ideal resume is a concise one-page document that highlights your academic, professional, and leadership achievements, which is just as difficult to assemble as it sounds. OpenAI's  ChatGPT  can make the resume-building process a breeze.

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You can use ChatGPT to generate ideas and bullet points for your role from scratch or to refine and optimize your current points that are not hitting the mark. Beyond key points, the AI tool can help you answer questions about putting together your resume. Here's how to get started.

Side note:  We are using ChatGPT, but you can use any AI chatbot -- there are plenty of capable AI chatbots to choose from .

1. Choose a resume template

ChatGPT will help you with the text in your resume, but you'll need to pick a template before you get started. The program you're using to write the resume -- such as Google Docs, Microsoft Word, or Canva -- will likely have a resume template already.

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A quick Google search for resume templates will also bring up hundreds of editable templates you can import into your program of choice.

2. Sign in to ChatGPT (optional)

On April 1, 2024, OpenAI stopped requiring you to log in to ChatGPT. You can now access ChatGPT simply by visiting ChatGPT's website . However, if you want to take advantage of certain perks, such as being able to revisit the chat later, analyzing PDFs , or digitizing hand-written notes , you need to sign up to access those features. 

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Signing up is easy. Go to OpenAI's ChatGPT homepage and open an account by creating an OpenAI login or using your existing Google or Microsoft account. ChatGPT is free, so the sign-up process is simple, requiring no credit cards or obscure information. 

3. Add text

If you want ChatGPT to generate text for your resume from scratch, all you have to do is ask. 

Whether you want it to generate your professional summary or an individual bullet, ask it directly. For example, I asked ChatGPT, "Can you write a short, professional resume summary about my role as a tech reporter?" Within seconds, it generated what you see in the screenshot below.

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Although ChatGPT can create content ready to be copied and pasted into a resume, you should tweak the text so it is personalized to your experiences and doesn't look like a chatbot wrote it.

Employers want to learn about what makes you unique. Without your assistance, the chatbot can only access generic content about your role. You can also use the  Custom Instructions  feature to share some details about your role and interests that ChatGPT can reference when outputting the text to give it a little more nuance. 

4. Use ChatGPT to revamp your text

Whether you fill out the template yourself before using ChatGPT's assistance or have an existing resume you want to enhance, ChatGPT is a great resource for polishing up text. 

All you have to do is copy and paste your text and ask ChatGPT to make it better. 

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For example, I asked ChatGPT, "Can you make this resume bullet sound better: 'I write stories about technology.'" Within seconds, it outputted an elaborate bullet point that incorporated a professional tone and made that simple sentence more complex, as seen in the screenshot above.

Once you get your result, you can always tell ChatGPT to tweak it further with prompts like, "Make it shorter" or "Can you include [additional details]?" 

How much does it cost for ChatGPT to write my resume?

ChatGPT is currently free to use regardless of what type of writing you use it for, which includes resume-building assistance. 

How can ChatGPT help me with my resume?

ChatGPT can generate text for different parts of your resume, including your professional summary and individual bullet points for each experience.

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The chatbot can also help enhance your current resume by optimizing your text. If you have any questions about how to format your resume and what to include, ChatGPT can give you some answers.

What should I put in my resume?

Ideally, you want a resume to highlight all your career accomplishments. This can include any educational, professional, and leadership experiences that are meaningful to you. You should also include as much detail about your unique experiences to make you stand out from other applicants.

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How To Use ChatGPT To Write a Resume: The Full ChatGPT Resume Guide

Writing a resume can be daunting, particularly for those with varying skill sets; not everyone finds it easy to translate their achievements into written words. This only gets harder when you’re writing a resume for a new career and aren’t sure how to stand out.

Fortunately, this is one area where emerging artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT are a big help. 

Is it cheating? No! Just as we use software to check spelling and grammar, AI tools serve a similar purpose, if a bit more advanced. These tools can highlight your strengths and make your resume pop. 

But the key to getting it right is using the tool in such a way that you can lean into its strengths. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll look at how you can use AI to craft an impressive ChatGPT resume that will increase your chances of landing that dream job.

We’ll cover:

• Should you use AI to write a resume?

Step 1: Determine your aims and target audience

Step 2: identify the key sections of your resume, step 3: craft nuanced prompts, step 4: refine and review outputs, step 5: engage chatgpt in dialogue, step 6: compile your chatgpt resume, step 7: tailor your chatgpt resume for each application, step 8: final amends.

• Key takeaways

Ready to explore the world of AI-assisted ChatGPT resume writing? Let’s dive in.

1. Should you use AI to write a resume?

The idea of using AI to craft a resume might sound futuristic, but it’s a practice that’s gaining traction for several good reasons. 

First of all, this new technology makes the possibility of AI-assisted resume writing possible in the first place. But “assistance” is the keyword here—despite the hype, ChatGPT is not a magic bullet that will generate a perfect resume with a single command.

Instead, you’ll need to learn how to use the tool in a way that saves time and effort while ensuring you still contribute to creating a carefully crafted document.

Here are a few benefits of using AI in resume writing:

• Customization: If you have an existing resume that’s more or less ready to go, ChatGPT can help you tailor it for different job roles. For example, by creating a prompt that includes an existing resume with text from a new job ad, ChatGPT can recommend how best to highlight your suitability for the new position.
• Writing support: Writing not your strong suit? ChatGPT can help speed up the process. While you should avoid simply using its output as is, ChatGPT is excellent for ideas generation and first drafts, allowing you to meet application deadlines without compromising on quality.
• Meeting technical requirements: Many recruiters now use applicant tracking systems (ATS) to detect keywords and phrases relevant to the role. They’ll use these to filter out resumes that don’t match. ChatGPT can help you choose the right keywords and phrases to increase your chances of making it through the ATS.
• Support and guidance: If you’re stuck on what to write, ChatGPT can also act as a guide, asking questions that will help you think differently about how to frame your achievements, skills, and experiences in relation to the job you’re applying for. But more on this later.

How not to use ChatGPT 

Although ChatGPT is a great tool, and there is a lot of hype about what it can do, it’s also good to be aware of its shortcomings. 

For instance, ChatGPT is trained using large amounts of text data. On paper, this sounds good. However, it also means the tool is inclined to use words or phrases that appear more commonly in its training data. 

As a result, ChatGPT’s output can sound generic, lacking a personal touch or creative flair. 

This might be acceptable for some use cases, but if you’re using it to write a ChatGPT resume that stands out, you’ll need to keep this in mind.

Furthermore, relying on AI-generated suggestions without careful review can often lead to inaccuracies. Imprecise prompts, for example, will cause ChatGPT and similar tools to  “hallucinate” or “fill in the gaps” with plausible-sounding nonsense. 

Remember this and check the output accordingly if you’re using it to inform your work.

The key takeaway here? AI tools should complement your resume-writing skills, not replace them entirely. 

2. How to use ChatGPT to write a resume

Creating a standout resume requires careful consideration, especially during a career change or in a competitive industry like tech or IT. 

Your resume should, therefore, effectively showcase your skills and highlight why you’re suited to the job you’re applying for. 

This is where the concepts of “prompts” and “outputs” in ChatGPT come into play. The key to getting the most useful output lies in using nuanced prompts that act as guiding instructions, shaping the direction of the tool’s response. 

Initially, try crafting prompts that capture your unique experiences, and don’t worry if it requires a little trial and error! 

The main thing is not to simply accept the first output you receive but to critically review and hone the content as required.

We’ll take you through some steps you should consider following to portray yourself in the best possible light. Where relevant, we’ll include examples of good and bad prompts so you can see the difference in practice.

The biggest mistake people make when using ChatGPT is to assume the tool knows everything. This is a fair assumption, but remember, despite being called “artificial intelligence”, it’s not intelligent in the same way that we are!

As such, before diving into a ChatGPT resume writing session, ensure you have a clear idea of the job you’re applying for and the specific skills relevant to the role. 

Read the job description and see what you can learn about the company culture. You can do this by looking at their website or reading reviews on sites like Trustpilot (for customer reviews) and Glassdoor (for employee feedback). 

This knowledge will not just help you create prompts that guide ChatGPT to generate more suitable responses but will give you the insights you need to ensure that these responses are accurate.

Next, your resume should have clear sections, each highlighting different aspects of your professional background. You can, of course, ask ChatGPT to suggest some of these for you, but the common ones are:

• Contact details: Name, phone number, email address, and city.
• Personal summary: A brief overview of your career goals and what you can bring to the job.
• Skills: A list of technical and soft skills you have that are relevant to the role.
• Work experience: Details of current and previous jobs, including—where relevant— responsibilities, achievements, and measurable results as evidence of your success.
• Education: Your educational background, including degrees, courses, or online certifications you might have completed.
• Additional sections: Depending on the job and your background, you might include sections outlining your awards, publications, or volunteer projects you’ve worked on.

From here, feed your desired sections into ChatGPT and ask it to produce a resume template for the job you’re applying for. 

As we’ve learned by playing with the tool, it helps to specify that it shouldn’t populate the template with any information. This will avoid the tool “hallucinating” or using made-up facts. 

You can then use this template to develop your ChatGPT resume, section by section.

As mentioned, the key to getting the best output from ChatGPT is crafting appropriate prompts and breaking tasks down into smaller chunks. 

Resist the temptation to ask ChatGPT to write the whole resume in one go!

Be specific and provide context about your experiences, achievements, and skills. 

You can also specify instructions such as “use action-oriented language”, or “use language that would resonate with a tech industry recruiter”. You get the idea. 

The main thing is to experiment with different prompts and then choose the outputs that resonate best with you.

Perhaps you want to start with your personal summary.

Here’s an example of a sub-optimal prompt for the “personal summary” section and the corresponding output:

“Write a basic summary for my resume explaining why I’m suited to a job as UX Designer”

Initially, this first output looks pretty good. But as you read more closely, you’ll realize it’s pretty generic-sounding and doesn’t say anything special about why you are suited to the role. 

By contrast, here’s an example of a good (albeit fictional!) prompt for the “personal summary” section:

“Write a 100-word resume summary for a role as UX Designer at software design company Hyperdyne Systems. Highlight my experience as a software engineer at Weyland-Yutani Corporation, where I improved the efficiency of the company’s xenomorph detection software by 30%. Focus on transferable skills and mention that I did a UX Design certification with CareerFoundry. Please use active language.”

The second output—although imperfect—includes all the important information provided in the prompt. 

While it still needs some editing to flow better, match the role, and add some personal flair, it’s a vast improvement on the first output, which—while cosmetically well-written—is vague and repetitive. Remember: you will only get out of AI tools what you put into them. 

Continue this approach for each section. 

Learn more: How to Create a Winning UX Design Resume

Once you’ve got ChatGPT’s responses, refine them. Make sure each one matches your preferred style and the job requirements. 

Initially, you might find the tool making up information. If that happens, it means you need to provide more context and content. 

This could involve editing your initial prompt or directly editing the autogenerated output for accuracy. Make sure you’re happy that the information flows logically and that there’s nothing erroneous.

Stuck? Sometimes when writing a resume, even with the help of an AI tool, the biggest challenge lies in knowing which skills to highlight and how these can be valuable to a new employer. 

This problem is even worse if the AI tool starts making up information, which is actually quite common. One solution is to engage ChatGPT in a dialogue. 

For example, if you’re transitioning from marketing to UX design, look at the job description. 

Perhaps an essential skill is “coding”. Then you could use the following prompt: “I’m stuck writing my resume. Can you suggest the sorts of accomplishments I should be highlighting to showcase my coding skills?” 

As you can see, this partial output offers some helpful suggestions for writing your resume, all without “hallucinating”. While you don’t have to use all (or any) of the ideas that ChatGPT gives you, they can certainly spark new avenues of thinking!

The next step is to compile all the sections generated by ChatGPT into a cohesive resume.

One option is to place edited content from ChatGPT into an existing template. 

Another is to copy and paste each section into a word processor before formatting and proofreading it.

Whichever approach you choose, stick to a clean, professional layout and use a font that’s easy to read. 

Pay attention to bullet points, headings, and spacing to ensure you create an aesthetically pleasing document that is not more than two sides long.

Once you’ve got your initial draft resume, you’ll have done most of the hard work. Nicely done!

Remember, though, when applying for jobs, customization is key. For each job application, tailor your resume to the company culture and job description. 

Fortunately, ChatGPT can help here, too. 

With the right prompt, you can ask it to generate a new version of your resume that matches the requirements of that job. 

Input the new job description (or, better yet, take each section of the job description and each corresponding section of your resume) and ask the tool to combine them. 

You might not always be happy with the output, but you’ll at least have something to work from. If you’re writing a cover letter , you can use a similar approach.

(Be sure to check out our full guide on how to write a cover letter using AI , too.)

Before submitting your resume, step away from the AI tools! Proofread it thoroughly to catch any grammatical errors or typos. 

These often sneak in during the editing process. It’s also important to check that the content of your resume is factually accurate, uses the right language conventions, and so on. 

The main thing is to present a polished and professional document that will entice potential employers.

While a human pair of eyes should always be the last to look over your resume, one option is to input your document into ChatGPT and ask it to assess areas for improvement. 

Use your judgment here, though—using “leading” prompts that ask for suggestions might encourage ChatGPT to suggest changes that aren’t really necessary. 

Nevertheless, it can’t hurt to give it a shot in case it spots an obvious mistake that you missed.

Most importantly, always—always—make sure you get a friend or colleague to read over your resume before submitting it.

ChatGPT is a great tool but it won’t always detect subtle nuances or mistakes that a human being might be able to spot right away.

3. Key takeaways

There you have it! In this post, we’ve learned how you can use ChatGPT to craft a resume that catches the eye of recruiters.

Incorporating ChatGPT into your resume-writing process can be a powerful way to enhance your offering. 

But it’s still crucial to use your judgment to ensure the final product accurately represents you and your qualifications and doesn’t include “hallucinated” information.

The main takeaways from this article include:

• Use AI as a complement: ChatGPT is not a replacement for your own skills but it is valuable for offering guidance and structure.
• Use precise prompts: Specific prompts lead to more relevant outputs. Break your resume into sections and use AI to help you with one at a time.
• Engage in dialogue: Stuck? Then engage ChatGPT in a conversation about the problem. See if it can inspire you to think differently about your skills.
• Personalization matters: Tailor your resume’s language and tone to reflect the needs and industry language used by each employer you are applying to.
• The human touch is vital: While AI excels at generating content, a human set of eyes is essential for editing, refining, personalizing, and proofreading.

Ultimately, if you see working with ChatGPT as a form of collaboration, you’ll soon be on the way to creating a career-changing resume that will be a powerful tool in pursuing exciting new opportunities! 

But don’t rely on it to do everything; that’s not what it’s there for. To learn about all the ways AI can be used to get your dream job, read our guide on how to use AI for your job search .

And to learn more about leveraging AI tools in the modern working world, check out the following posts:

• The 20 Best AI Tools for Digital Marketing
• ChatGPT for UX Design: The Top 15 Prompts
• 6 AI Programming Tools You Should Know in 2024

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Even strong writers struggle to find the right words to fill a blank page. But when that blank page is a draft of your resume, you need to find a way to jumpstart the writing process — especially if your job search has a ticking clock.

When drafting your resume, it’s paramount to choose each word carefully. After all, it’s likely the first touchpoint between you and hiring managers. A well-written resume sets a strong foundation for your candidacy and might just be what persuades a company to invite you for an interview. 

Not everyone is a natural wordsmith. That’s okay. Instead of staring down the blinking text cursor pondering action verbs and compelling skills , try delegating some work to artificial intelligence (AI). That’s right: you can ask a robot to help you write your resume.

AI tools can analyze a job posting, brainstorm ways to tailor your experience to the role at hand, and keep language professional and efficient. But AI chatbots like ChatGPT are far from perfect, so copy-pasting an AI-generated resume word-for-word isn’t the best use of this tool. To create an effective ChatGPT resume, you must learn to leverage AI for its efficiency while maintaining your unique voice. 

ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool developed by OpenAI . The AI language model can understand and generate human-like conversations because it draws from a data set developed by human AI trainers and approved online content.

ChatGPT has various professional abilities, including summarizing reports, drafting emails, and breaking projects into to-do lists. Likewise, it can work as a cover letter generator, help you prepare for interview questions , and brainstorm how to represent your personal branding. 

When it comes to crafting the perfect resume to land your dream job, ChatGPT is capable of assisting with:

Choosing a resume template and guiding the overall structure

Providing industry-appropriate suggestions based on your relevant skills, work experience, and know-how

Drafting an objective or summary statement that highlights your best qualifications

Analyzing the position’s requirements and identifying your key competencies

Suggesting ways to include education , certifications, and extracurricular activities to show off your soft skills

Inserting industry-specific buzzwords and terminology to optimize your resume for applicant tracking systems

Writing concise and engaging descriptions about your previous roles to showcase accomplishments and professional growth

To write a resume using ChatGPT, you must provide the chatbot with a prompt (the instructions you tell the AI to elicit your desired response). But crafting the perfect prompt takes careful thought and consideration — it’s not as simple as asking the program to spit out a resume.

Here’s how to create a resume prompt for ChatGPT: 

1. Prepare your information

Start by compiling all of your professional information. Jot down the following details about you:

• Full contact details, including a professional email address and phone number
• Work experience, relevant skills, and a brief description of your roles and responsibilities and the key achievements in each role. Provide metrics for work achievements, if possible.
• Education information, including years of study, degree(s), certifications, and any honors or awards
• Skills relevant to the job postings’ requisites and responsibilities
• A copy or key highlights of the job posting, including the description of the role, ideal candidate, and company culture

2. Begin the prompt 

With your information handy, build out the prompt. Start by providing the chatbot with the information shared in the post for the open position. 

I need help drafting my resume. Please emphasize my most relevant education, experiences, and skills to align with the job requirements and responsibilities in the job description. Here’s a copy/summary of the posting: [Insert job posting] .

3. Insert your personal details

Next, include the personal and professional information you assembled in step one. It’s key to organize these details in a way that’s easy for the chatbot to read and understand. To avoid errors, separate your contact details, skills, education, experience, and extracurriculars into different sections. Use concise paragraphs and bulleted lists to explore each section in greater depth. 

This is the personal information I’d like to include in my resume: 

Contact information: Include your name, phone number, email address, and any other relevant professional platforms (such as a LinkedIn profile or portfolio website).

Work experience: Summarize your relevant professional experience while keeping things concise. When deciding how far back to go , we suggest leaving out jobs from more than 15 years ago and roles irrelevant to the open position. 

Education: State the year you graduated, your degree(s), the institution(s) you studied at, and any academic accomplishments. These include an impressive GPA, scholarships, and relevant certificates.

Extracurriculars and achievements: Share any work or experiences relevant to the position in and out of the professional world. Volunteering, industry awards, and special projects all qualify.

4. Provide pointers

Finally, establish additional guidelines to help you meet the hiring company’s expectations. This is also a great opportunity to ask the chatbot for additional assistance in areas of writing you struggle with. For example:

Tell me: How should I organize this resume?

Suggest 15 action verbs with use case examples to describe my accomplishments and work experiences

Provide me with a list of 10 other valuable soft skills for this role

Rewrite this section using professional language

Provide me with two options: a functional resume and a chronological resume

Create three options for a possible personal brand statement or resume summary that leverages my best skills against the job’s top requisites

Based on my resume, what are 10 transferable skills I possess that would benefit me in this position?

To help you visualize an effective prompt, here’s a sample. You may choose to edit it based on your specific job search.

I need help drafting my resume. Here’s the job description: “Junior Public Policy Analyst at Center for Public Policy. Seeking a highly motivated and intellectually curious Junior Public Policy Analyst to join a dynamic team. You’ll be working with senior analysts, researchers, and policymakers.  

Responsibilities: 

Collect and analyze data, review literature, and stay up-to-date on relevant policy developments

Develop research reports, policy briefs, and recommendations

Support senior analysts in providing workshops, consultations, and open forums

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s in political science, economics, or a related field

Proven research and analytical skills

Ability to synthesize complex information 

Strong time management, organization, and attention to detail

Can work independently and collaboratively

We are a think tank committed to conducting and shaping public policy with a high impact on national policymaking. Our team is dedicated to evidence-based analysis, ethics, and transparency.”

These are the personal details I’d like to include:

Contact information: Jane Smith, (XXX) XXX-XXXX, [email protected]. 

Work experience: I was an assistant consultant for Policy Innovation Lab from 2019 to 2022. I was promoted to Junior Consultant in 2021. I assisted in researching and drafting policy recommendations for funding non-profit organizations focused on sustainable community economic growth. I also became proficient in both qualitative and quantitative data analysis methods.

Education: I earned a BA in Economics from the University of Washington, where I studied from 2015 to 2019. I graduated summa cum laude. I also have a minor in Spanish. 

Skills: I have excellent time management skills , am highly organized, and possess strong attention to detail . I enjoy working alone and contributing in a team environment. I’ve developed my active listening skills , am a strong writer, and feel passionate about research.

Certifications and training: I received a Certificate in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School in 2020.  

Achievements: I consulted on two policy briefs for an acting senator, both of which were successfully drafted into law.

Please provide me with engaging action verbs to describe my accomplishments. Help me brainstorm the best soft skills for a junior public policy analyst and leverage my skills and experience to fit the requirements in the job description. 

While ChatGPT can help you write or improve your existing resume, the technology is best used as a tool to complement your work. It’s not a replacement for a career coach , resume builder , or professional resume writer. That said, if you use it correctly, the chatbot can get you close to a final product.

Once you finish writing out the prompt, follow these six tips to optimize ChatGPT’s response:

Provide all relevant information: You can think of ChatGPT as an assistant who needs to be onboarded. The more information you provide, the more likely it is to build a resume that’s accurate and truthful about your potential. Take stock of your most valuable work experiences, skills, education, and certifications, and lay them out clearly in your prompt. 

Have a conversation: AI chatbots like ChatGPT were developed to have back-and-forth conversations in plain language. To get the best results, collaborate with the chatbot and request multiple interactions of its answers when necessary. Ask for clarification, provide feedback, and play around with the requisites you provided to refine and improve the resume in real time. Note that, at the time of writing,  ChatGPT has a limit of 50 questions within a 4-hour time frame.

Use AI as a starting point: ChatGPT’s suggestions are just that: suggestions. The results can’t replace your knowledge about your experience and capabilities — you're the expert on what you have to offer. Use its answers as inspiration and modify them to reflect your unique worth. To add another layer of humanness to your AI-generated resume, consider working with a career coach to identify the unique strengths and experience you would bring to the role. Together, you and your coach can refine the draft into the best possible version of your resume.

Double-check everything: ChatGPT wasn’t designed as a resume builder. It pulls from the information you provide and the content it’s trained on, which means it isn’t all-knowing. Ensure all industry-relevant skills, experiences, and know-how are represented accurately so no incorrect claims slip through the cracks.

Proofread the writing: ChatGPT can make grammar errors, produce awkward phrasing, or miss critical stylistic details for different types of resumes . These simple errors can cost you a job interview . They show a lack of professionalism and attention to detail, which potential employers may associate with your performance. Always proofread for mistakes and adapt the language to sound natural. 

Ask ChatGPT what it needs: If a prompt isn’t working as you’d hoped and you’re not sure why, you can always ask. Inquiring, “What additional information does ChatGPT need to help me build my resume?” allows the chatbot to highlight the essential resume elements you might be missing. 

Artificial intelligence is a new and exciting advancement. Now that chatbots are widely available for anyone to use, you can leverage this technology to speed up the job application process and stand out to recruiters. 

Remember that you likely won’t get a perfect ChatGPT resume on your first try, but don’t give up. Gathering the most accurate information, writing a prompt that’s clear and specific, and refining the results to your needs will put you one step closer to a winning application. 

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Artificial intelligence is no longer just an “idea” or “what if?”; it’s now part of our everyday lives. Adjusting to a new normal in technology can feel scary, but it doesn’t have to be. It can actually be exciting and helpful!

You’re probably wondering how this technology can help you if you’re looking for a new job. 

Well, you can use AI to carry out a successful job application process. 

The best way to speed up getting hired is to create a resume with ChatGPT and an AI resume builder .

It may seem challenging to use AI, but if you have the right information before getting started, you can write your resume in minutes .

The good news is you’re in the right place. In this article, we’ll be going over the following ChatGPT resume writing topics:

• What ChatGPT is and what it’s capable of
• Benefits of using ChatGPT to write your resume
• Best ChatGPT prompts to use (instructions)
• Steps to use the AI tool to build your resume

We’ll also explain how you can take advantage of our AI-powered resume builder . By combining ChatGPT and our AI tool, you can create a resume perfectly tailored to your position .

What Is ChatGPT, and What Can It Do? 

While you’ve probably heard about ChatGPT on the news or social media by now, you may not know what the OpenAI tool does. 

Which is totally fine! We’ll break it down for you . 

In a nutshell, ChatGPT is an AI tool that’s changing the way you tackle everyday tasks and challenges, including writing an organized resume. Here’s what it can do specifically to help you add the right qualifications to your application :

• Understand and generate text : ChatGPT can comprehend your questions and respond in a conversational tone.
• Provide research assistance : ChatGPT can help you gather information, summarize it, and provide insights. 
• Be versatile : ChatGPT’s wide range of capabilities ensures it can assist you across various tasks, such as suggesting how to highlight your professional strengths.
• Learning from Interaction : The more you use ChatGPT, the better it tailors its responses to meet your needs.

As you see, when it comes to your job search, incorporating ChatGPT-powered tools for resume writing can be a game-changer. It can free up your time, give you a new perspective, and help you create a more efficient and streamlined application process. 

Benefits of ChatGPT for Resumes

Think of ChatGPT as your new job search partner. Taking advantage of ChatGPT as a resume writer offers several advantages that can significantly enhance the quality of your application. 

• Personalized content creation : ChatGPT can quickly generate sections of your resume, such as work experience and skills.
• Efficient research : AI tools can research the company and position, ensuring your resume aligns with the employer’s expectations and highlights the most relevant qualifications.
• ATS Optimization : ChatGPT can help ensure that your resume contains the right keywords to pass through Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) which will increase your chances of getting noticed by recruiters.
• Less time working on your resume : You can avoid writer’s block and create resume sections in no time. 
• Grammar and style check : ChatGPT can proofread your resume for grammatical errors and inconsistencies, guaranteeing a professional appearance.

However, be careful as there are some drawbacks. You should always use it with an AI resume editor designed to create job applications. 

While tools like ChatGPT or Gemini AI significantly aid resume creation, a fully automated process might not look natural or use the best industry-specific keywords . 

Here are tips to have a balanced approach :

• Use ChatGPT to generate a strong base for your resume, including various sections tailored to your career.
• Personalize the AI-generated content with our builder to match your industry and qualifications.

The Best ChatGPT Prompts for Resume and Job Advice

The answers you get from ChatGPT are only as good as the prompts (instructions) you give. 

You’ll need good prompts to write resumes and to help you throughout the hiring process.  A “good prompt” is one that is clear and detailed.

Keep in mind that ChatGPT isn’t just for crafting resumes; it’s a versatile tool that can assist you in the different and important parts of your job search. 

Here are some effective ways to use ChatGPT prompts for comprehensive job search assistance:

• Analyzing job descriptions : To ensure your application aligns with a job’s requirements, ask ChatGPT, “How does my resume match this job description?” This can help identify gaps or areas for improvement.
• Online profile optimization : Enhance your LinkedIn with ChatGPT by asking, “How can I improve my LinkedIn profile for [INDUSTRY]?” ChatGPT can suggest changes to make your profile more attractive to recruiters.
• Interview preparation : Generate AI interview questions before meeting with an employer to practice. For example, “Generate mock interview questions for a [JOB TITLE] position.” 

Below, you can review an example of how a ChatGPT prompt and response will look .

Prompt : Based on this job description, how can I showcase my project management skills more effectively on my resume?

Answer :  Analyze the job description for keywords and phrases related to project management, such as ‘team leadership,’ ‘project delivery,’ and ‘budget management.’ Then, tailor your resume to include a ‘Project Management Highlights’ section. Here, detail specific projects relevant to the job description. For instance, you might write, ‘Directed a cross-functional team of 12 in the successful launch of a new software platform, completing the project 3 weeks ahead of schedule and under budget by 20%. This demonstrates your direct alignment with the job’s requirements and showcases your ability to lead, manage budgets, and deliver projects efficiently.

How to Use ChatGPT to Write a Resume: Step-by-Step

Around 54% of Americans believe that AI can improve writing content , according to Forbes . However, if you ignore certain steps, your resume will lose a lot of quality. 

Follow the steps below to speed up the resume writing process and ensure a good result from the AI tools you use .

1. Tailor your resume to job responsibilities

Start by using ChatGPT to align your resume with the job you’re eyeing. You should focus on the job description and ask ChatGPT to highlight your achievements with data based on the position’s responsibilities, along with any commonalities found between your career history and the company’s overall needs.

This is also a great opportunity to let ChatGPT know what your short-term or long-term goals are. 

Doing this lets you make your resume speak directly to what employers are looking for while keeping your goals in mind as well.

2. Craft a compelling professional summary

Your professional summary is your resume’s quick introduction, and it should resonate with your personal mission and goals. To draft a stand-out resume, you can create a professional summary with AI by asking ChatGPT. 

Experiment with generating multiple versions to find the perfect summary that encapsulates your professional narrative. Remember, a resume summary shouldn’t be longer than several sentences.

3. Generate a customized cover letter

With the job description and your tailored resume in hand, use ChatGPT to draft a cover letter that complements your application. 

Cover letters are still a useful tool in 2024 ; they help you stand out and give you an opportunity to build a meaningful connection with the hiring manager. You guessed it,  AI can help you write yours .   Make sure your AI cover letter highlights why you’re the ideal candidate, what makes you unique, what problems you solve, and why you’re motivated to join the team.

4. Edit where necessary and finalize

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You have the final say, and your resume needs to be a direct reflection of who you are and what you offer.

Examine all the suggestions and text generated on ChatGPT and select the most impactful content for your resume. Then, combine the AI-generated content with your personal touch , ensuring it mirrors your unique experiences and career path.

Also, use our AI resume builder to help you make any necessary adjustments to the layout and formatting to ensure your resume is professional and polished.

How to Use ChatGPT to Update Your Resume

ChatGPT can be a great assistant for those looking to breathe new life into an existing resume . 

By acting as an AI resume analyzer, ChatGPT can review your resume and offer suggestions for ways to improve it . Here’s how to utilize it:

• Upload your resume to ChatGPT
• Ask ChatGPT to identify areas that need more clarity 
• Ask for suggestions to make your resume more appealing to potential employers
• Proofread for accuracy
• Apply changes

How to Use ChatGPT With Our AI Resume Builder

To help guarantee that your resume is optimized to the fullest, add your ChatGPT-generated text with our AI Resume Builder . 

This will provide more specific suggestions and customizations that fit the job opening. 

Here’s how to make the most of these tools together :

• Generate AI-driven content : Start by using ChatGPT to draft sections of your resume, such as the professional summary, work experience, and skills.
• Insert text into our builder : Take the AI-generated text from ChatGPT and input it into our AI Resume Builder. 
• Receive tailored suggestions : Get suggestions specifically designed to tailor your resume to your target position or sector.
• Customize and optimize : Use the builder’s features to customize your resume, adjusting colors, fonts, and layouts.

By following these steps, you’ll save time and effort , receive expert guidance, and create an impressive application.

Key Takeaways

If you use AI correctly, you can make landing a new job a breeze , especially if you’re not sure where to begin. 

However, to use artificial technology correctly, it’s important to remember the tips we’ve mentioned in this article , such as:

• Use clear and detailed prompts to get better results
• Have ChatGPT analyze job descriptions 
• Take advantage of AI to prepare your cover letter
• Generate interview questions to prepare for when you meet the hiring manager
• Customize AI-generated content with our builder 

It’s time to put what you’ve learned into action. Pair ChatGPT with our editor and resume templates to ensure you’re 100% ready to land your dream job.

Good luck as you embark on your job search!

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How to Use ChatGPT To Write a Resume - With Prompts & Examples

Writing a resume using ChatGPT is very easy. You could simply go ahead and write “write a resume for my {job title}” and ChatGPT will return an output. Copy and paste the text output from ChatGPT and that’s it.

But, will that resume be good enough to actually help you in your job search? Most likely, that resume won’t help at all.

That’s why we wrote this blog to help you use ChatGPT in your resume building process like a pro and create a resume that helps you stand out from the crowd.

• Can ChatGPT Write a Resume

Yes, ChatGPT can write a resume. By feeding it specific prompts and information about your experience, skills, and education, ChatGPT can generate comprehensive, tailored content for your resume. Doing so will help you get the right level of customization that can make your resume stand out.

• How to Use ChatGPT to Write Your Resume

To effectively use ChatGPT to craft your resume, specify distinct sections you want to include. This ensures a structured resume highlighting all necessary aspects of your career. Start by:

• Contact Information: Start by telling ChatGPT to list your name, phone number, email, and LinkedIn profile. Ensure accuracy so potential employers can easily reach you.
• Professional Summary: Share your career objectives and key achievements with ChatGPT. It can create a compelling summary that showcases your value proposition to employers.
• Work Experience: Provide ChatGPT with details of your previous jobs, including the company names, your titles, and the dates of your employment. Then, describe your responsibilities and accomplishments in each role for ChatGPT to generate a concise work history.
• Education: Inform ChatGPT about your educational background, including the degrees you've obtained, the institutions you attended, and your graduation dates. Include notable academic achievements or extracurricular activities.
• Skills: Specify the skills you wish to highlight and tailor them to the job you're applying for. ChatGPT can help phrase these skills effectively, making them appealing to recruiters.
• Certifications and Awards: If applicable, mention any certifications, licenses, or awards you've received. ChatGPT can format these achievements to add credibility to your resume.
• Personal Projects or Volunteer Work: Share details of any relevant projects or volunteer work demonstrating your skills and commitment. This information can be particularly persuasive, offering a fuller picture of who you are beyond professional experience.
• How to Use ChatGPT to Write Your Resume Even Faster

To use ChatGPT to write your resume even faster, skip providing all of the information manually, use the GPT-4 model and upload your PDF resume and ask to write, expand, improve or customize your resume.

• Should You Use ChatGPT to Write Your Resume

Yes, using ChatGPT to write your resume is a common practice today. It streamlines the resume-building process, ensuring your resume is professional. Additionally, ChatGPT's ability to customize resumes for each job can significantly enhance your resume's impact on potential employers.

• How to Upload Resume to ChatGPT

Unless you are on a ChatGPT Plus or a ChatGPT Team plan, you won’t be able to upload your resume to ChatGPT. If you have access to the paid plans, simply “click” on the attach icon at the bottom left on the chat and “upload” your resume PDF.

If you don’t have access to paid plans, you can either:

• Find free tools with GPT API access to improve your resume. VisualCV as a free AI resume builder that you can try!
• Copy and paste your resume’s content through ChatGPT’s UI to upload it
• How to Ask ChatGPT for Any Other Resume Help

To seek resume help from ChatGPT, input your questions into the chat. Whether you need advice on optimal formatting, choosing better words, or tailoring your resume to a specific industry, ChatGPT can offer insights based on trends and best practices.

Writing Prompt: How can I make my resume stronger and more interesting to potential employers hiring for {job title}?

• How to Improve Resume With ChatGPT

You can do the following using ChatGPT to improve your resume:

• Get content recommendations: ChatGPT suggests stronger action verbs and clearer descriptions, such as "Boosted sales by 20% through innovative marketing strategies."
• Get formatting assistance: ChatGPT provides layout guidance for visual appeal and readability, recommending bullet points for clarity.
• Optimize your resume’s keywords: ChatGPT tailors your resume with relevant keywords for specific job applications, increasing visibility to ATS.
• Customize for each job: ChatGPT aligns your skills and experiences with job requirements, enhancing relevance and competitiveness.
• General proofreading and grammar check: ChatGPT ensures a polished resume free of grammatical errors or typos, maintaining a professional image.

An example ChatGPT prompt to improve your resume: “Improve my resume by focusing on readability, stronger action verbs, quantifying my achievements, and elevating my skills and experiences.”

How to Improve your Resume using ChatGPT - Content Enhancement

• Utilize stronger action verbs and clearer descriptions.
• Highlight accomplishments such as "Boosted sales by 20% through innovative marketing strategies."
• Ensure key skills and experiences are effectively highlighted.

ChatGPT Resume Writing Prompt for Content Enhancement

"Describe a significant achievement in my previous role using dynamic language and quantifiable results."

How to Improve your Resume using ChatGPT - Formatting Assistance

• Provide layout guidance for visual appeal and readability.
• Recommend bullet points for clarity and consistency.
• Ensure the overall design is visually appealing and easy to follow.

ChatGPT Resume Writing Prompt for Formatting Assistance

"Revise my resume layout to make it more visually appealing and reader-friendly, using bullet points to emphasize key points."

How to Improve your Resume using ChatGPT - Keyword Optimization

• Tailor your resume with relevant keywords for specific job applications.
• Increase visibility to Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) by optimizing keywords.
• Align the language in your resume with the requirements of the job description.

ChatGPT Resume Writing Prompt for Keyword Optimization

"Incorporate industry-specific keywords into my resume to enhance its searchability and relevance to potential employers."

How to Improve your Resume using ChatGPT - Tailoring for Specific Jobs

• Align your skills and experiences with the requirements of each job application.
• Customize your resume to showcase your qualifications for each specific position.
• Highlight relevant achievements and experiences that match the job description.

ChatGPT Resume Writing Prompt for Tailoring for Specific Jobs

"Tailor my resume to match the qualifications and requirements listed in the job description, emphasizing your relevant skills and experiences."

How to Improve your Resume using ChatGPT - Proofreading and Grammar Checking

• Ensure your resume is free of grammatical errors and typos.
• Maintain a professional image by presenting a polished and error-free document.
• Double-check for consistency in formatting and language usage.

ChatGPT Resume Writing Prompt for Proofreading and Grammar Checking

"Review my resume for any grammatical errors or typos, ensuring a polished and professional presentation to potential employers."

How to Improve Your Resume Summary with ChatGPT

To enhance your resume summary with ChatGPT, provide a concise overview of your professional experience and skills. This AI tool can refine your initial draft, making the language more dynamic and aligning it with industry keywords.

The process involves iterative refinement, where you can tweak ChatGPT's suggestions to better match your unique career trajectory and aspirations. This collaborative effort results in a powerful summary that captures the attention of recruiters and sets the tone for your entire resume.

ChatGPT Prompt : Add in industry keywords to allow my resume to stand out and better fit the job description.

How to Improve Your Resume Work Experience with ChatGPT

Provide detailed information about your roles and achievements to enhance the work experience section of your resume with ChatGPT. Through its understanding of resume optimization, ChatGPT can suggest more impactful ways to describe your contributions, using strong action verbs and quantifying results where possible. This process highlights your abilities and demonstrates your value to prospective employers concisely and powerfully.

Additionally, ChatGPT can assist in identifying and filling gaps in your work experience narrative, ensuring a coherent and compelling story.

ChatGPT Prompt : Enhance my work experience section by making it more impactful and quantifying my results. Also, fill in gaps to create a more compelling narrative.

How to Use ChatGPT to Tailor Resume to Job Description

Tailoring your resume to a specific job description using ChatGPT is highly efficient and effective. By inputting the job's key responsibilities and required skills, ChatGPT can help emphasize relevant experiences and skills. This personalized approach ensures your resume resonates with the specific needs of employers, significantly boosting the chances of your resume being seen.

ChatGPT Prompt : Tailor my resume to this specific job description, emphasizing my relevant experiences and skills: [copy and paste the job description]

How to Improve Your Resume Skills Section with ChatGPT

Revamping your resume's skills section with ChatGPT is straightforward. Input a list of your skills, and ChatGPT can help you refine them, making the language more engaging and relevant to potential employers. By focusing on the skills that align closely with the job requirements, ChatGPT can ensure your resume makes a powerful statement about your capabilities.

ChatGPT Prompt : Rewrite my resume to include soft and technical skills that highlight my fit for this position. Make the language more engaging and relevant to the job description.

Convert Job Description to Resume with ChatGPT

Converting a job description to a resume section with ChatGPT involves extracting the core competencies and duties. ChatGPT can analyze the job description, identifying the skills and experiences most relevant to the position.

ChatGPT Prompt : Convert this job description into a resume, identifying relevant skills and experiences.

• ChatGPT Resume Rewrite - How Effective Is It?

ChatGPT's resume rewrite can significantly improve your resume's effectiveness. Tailoring language and emphasizing key achievements aligns your profile with employer expectations. This personalized approach makes your resume more compelling, enhancing your visibility in the crowded job market.

ChatGPT Prompt : Rewrite my resume to make it more effective and emphasize my key achievements.

• 13 Additional ChatGPT Resume Prompts to Write Your Resume

1. ChatGPT Prompt to Review Resume and Provide Feedback as a Recruiter

"Please review my current resume with the expertise of a seasoned resume editor and recruiter. Your task is to identify and correct any grammatical, spelling, or syntax errors, and address formatting issues to enhance clarity and effectiveness. Ensure the resume is optimized for ATS software. Additionally, evaluate the content for its ability to effectively communicate my background and skills in a compelling manner. Provide feedback on the overall structure and organization of the resume, suggesting improvements where necessary. Your edit should encompass all relevant aspects including formatting, layout, and content, adhering strictly to best practices and industry standards for resume writing."

2. ChatGPT Prompt to Analyze a Job Ad and Suggest Keywords to Add to a Resume

"Could you please help me identify key keywords and skills from this job description? I'm looking to tailor my resume/application to match the requirements and highlight relevant experience."

3. ChatGPT Prompt to Review Resume Based on a Job Ad and Also Write a Custom Cover Letter

Step 1: "Please provide recommendations on enhancing my resume to better align with the requirements of the [insert job title] position."

Step 2: "Revise the [specific section title] section of my resume based on your previous suggestions. Here is my current Resume/CV: [insert resume]."

Step 3: "Write a three-paragraph cover letter for the [job position], focusing on my expertise in [your experience]. Highlight how these skills are beneficial to a [adjective] [type of company], considering details from my resume provided below. Please also review the company's website [company URL] and the job description [job description link]."

4. ChatGPT Prompt Custom Resume and Cover Letter Based on "About Us" and Job Ad

"Generate a customized resume tailored to the specific job position at [company name] by first providing the 'About Us' page of the company (URL: [company URL]), followed by the job advertisement for which I am applying (URL: [job ad URL]). Once the resume is generated, proceed to create a personalized cover letter specifically designed for [company name] based on the generated resume."

5. ChatGPT Prompt - Tailored Resume Development: Showcasing Skills and Achievements in [Industry]

"Please help me craft a polished and impactful resume tailored for my career in [industry]. I aim to emphasize my skills, experience, and achievements effectively. Sections should include contact details, a compelling summary or objective statement, professional experience, key skills, education, notable achievements, and any other pertinent information. The goal is to create a resume that stands out to potential employers in the industry, showcasing my qualifications and strengths."

6. ChatGPT Prompt for ATS Optimized Resume Work Experience

"Craft ATS-Optimized Work Experience Points Based on This Job Advertisement: [job ad]"

7. ChatGPT Prompt to Score a Resume Based on a Job Description

"Please evaluate this resume for its suitability to the [Job Title] position at [Company Name]. Assess the resume against the following criteria and provide a score out of 10 for each: relevance of experience in [key skills or responsibilities], alignment of skills with job requirements, appropriateness of educational background and certifications, presence of notable achievements, reflection of keywords from the job description, clarity and organization of format, and any additional factors pertinent to the job description. Please offer detailed feedback where applicable."

8. ChatGPT Prompt to Score a Resume Summary Based on a Job Description

"Assess this resume summary for its alignment with the [Job Title] position at [Company Name]. Evaluate the summary based on the following criteria and provide a score out of 10 for each: clarity and conciseness in conveying relevant skills and experience, demonstration of understanding of key responsibilities and requirements of the role, inclusion of impactful achievements, reflection of keywords from the job description, professionalism in tone and presentation, and any additional aspects crucial for the job. Please provide detailed feedback where necessary."

9. ChatGPT Prompt to Provide Resume Work Experience Suggestions Based on a Job Description

"Review my work experience and suggest additions based on the job advertisement for the [Job Title] position at [Company Name]. Evaluate the current work experience for alignment with the job requirements and suggest specific additions or enhancements to better match the following criteria: relevance of past roles and responsibilities to the job, skills and competencies demonstrated, achievements and contributions highlighted, industry knowledge and expertise showcased, and any additional elements specified in the job description. Please provide detailed suggestions for improvement."

10. ChatGPT Prompt to Write/Update Your Work Experience Based on a Job Description

"Update my work experience section to align with the [Job Title] position at [Company Name]. Review the current work experience and revise it to better match the job requirements, emphasizing the following aspects: relevance of past roles and responsibilities to the job, specific skills and competencies demonstrated, key achievements and contributions highlighted, industry knowledge and expertise showcased, and any additional elements specified in the job description. Please provide detailed recommendations on how to enhance the work experience section to better fit the requirements of the role."

11. ChatGPT Prompt to Write Resume Skills Based on Job Ad and Best Match for Your Job Title

"Update my resume skills section to align with the [Job Title] position at [Company Name]. Evaluate my current skills and revise them to better match the job requirements, emphasizing the following aspects: key skills and competencies sought in the job ad, specific technical proficiencies and soft skills required, industry-specific knowledge or certifications desired, and any additional skills crucial for success in the role. Please provide detailed recommendations on how to enhance the skills section to better fit the requirements of the job title."

12. ChatGPT Prompt to Write Resume Skills Based on Your Job Title - Technical Skills

"Based on the job title I paste here, return the top 20 technical skills. Return one skill per line. Keep them technical. Don't add soft skills."

13. ChatGPT Prompt to Improve the Impact of Work Experience

"Rewrite my work experience to make it more impactful in front of a recruiter. Highlight my best achievemnts and reorder the work experience bullet points in the order of impact. Most impactful at the top"

• Can ChatGPT Review Your Resume?

Yes, ChatGPT can review your resume. It offers constructive feedback to refine and optimize your resume's content, structure, and language. ChatGPT can help enhance the clarity and impact of your resume, making it more attractive.

ChatGPT Prompt : Review my resume and offer constructive feedback that will make my resume more impactful in front of potential employers.

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ChatGPT Resume: How to Use ChatGPT for a Resume w/ Prompts

How to Use ChatGPT to Write a Resume

• ChatGPT Resume Prompts

Should You Use ChatGPT to Write Your Resume?

• ChatGPT Resume Writing Tips

ChatGPT Resume FAQs

Times are a changing. And the way you can build a resume (and at record speed, we might add) is changing, too, with the help of ChatGPT.

ChatGPT has quickly become a household name, but if you’ve been living in the Dinosaur Age, here are the basics: It’s an advanced AI that can understand and generate human-like text based on your prompts, meaning you can get it to do things for you!

We assume you don’t love writing resumes, which is why you’re curious about a ChatGPT resume. Stay tuned—we’ve got your roadmap for how to use ChatGPT to write a resume.

Let’s be real: Resume writing can be tedious. Worse yet, every resume you send out should be tailored to the job, so it’s not a one-and-done kind of thing.

With the aid of ChatGPT and a top-notch resume template , you can cut back on the hassle without resorting to sending cookie-cutter resumes to every employer. This strategy can save you time and energy and inspire you when you need help with how to emphasize your skills the right way.

Not sure how to get started? We’ve got you.

Come to the ChatGPT table prepared

If there’s one key to creating a ChatGPT resume, it’s to be extra specific with your requests. (Coincidentally, that’s also the key to a good resume .)

Without a precise prompt, ChatGPT will still give you a response, but it often won’t be what you’re looking for. It might be vague, overly wordy, or too generic.

However, if you feed the AI the correct ingredients, the final dish is bound to turn out much better.

Here are some of the things ChatGPT needs to know to help you with your resume:

• Job title and description: For most jobs, ChatGPT already has a rough idea of what you do, but it helps to narrow it down in a paragraph or two.
• Your achievements and daily tasks: From winning employee of the month to spearheading a successful merger, tell ChatGPT your career highlights.
• Skills and certifications: Give ChatGPT a list of your skills, including hard skills like software or tool proficiency.
• Educational background: This can be useful but isn’t always necessary, as you may not be mentioning school outside of a separate little section in your resume template .
• Keywords from the job description: Read the job description carefully and ask ChatGPT to incorporate some of the keywords—this often means the required skills or duties.

Using ChatGPT for resume job description bullet points

The job description bullet points are what you want to emphasize about your past or current roles. It’s not so much what you do every day, such as “marketing strategy,” but it’s more about what you’re most proud of and how you impacted the companies where you worked.

But how do you go from point A to point B and then C? It’s simple: Just ask ChatGPT to help.

• Pick an achievement or responsibility: Do this separately for each point—ChatGPT tends to do better if you don’t ask it to do too many things at once. Example: “Managed a team.”
• Prompt ChatGPT to enhance or elaborate: Be specific. Ask ChatGPT to include relevant keywords from the job description and which aspects of the role you want to emphasize.

You might get something like:

Managed a team of sales associates, leading to an increase in sales.

You don’t have to stop here—you can, and should, tweak this by yourself, but it often helps to ask follow-up questions.

• Ask for more details: Mention a technology or a skill that you used to achieve this.

To that, ChatGPT may come back with:

Managed a team of sales associates, using Lean Six Sigma to optimize workloads for efficiency, leading to an increase in sales.

But that’s still not enough.

• Focus on impact: Ask ChatGPT to quantify the results. Make sure to tweak the results so that they’re fully relevant to your job.

The final bullet point should now look something like this:

Managed a team of 10 sales associates, using Lean Six Sigma techniques to optimize workloads for efficiency, effectively increasing upselling by 19%.

You could also cut back on the back-and-forth with ChatGPT and use our quick resume builder , which uses AI to suggest bullet points suited to your role.

Our tool will also give you some handy resume tips to make it even better. After these tweaks, recruiters will be fighting over you, and that’s an enviable position to be in!

Writing a summary or career objective with ChatGPT

A career objective is useful if your experience is limited, but as a veteran, you’ll want to brag a little in an impactful summary . Using AI can help you with both.

To make a personalized resume summary or objective, let ChatGPT know a little more about you. Spill the beans about your experience, skills, the company you’re applying to, and the job description to let the AI decide what’s important (or you can tell it yourself).

Next, specify whether this is for a resume objective or a summary. For an objective, ask ChatGPT to focus on your career aspirations. For a summary, focus on—you guessed it—your top achievements.

It’s a good idea to ask ChatGPT to revise things one by one, such as restricting the length of the summary, including skills from the job listing , or making the language more natural.

A ChatGPT resume objective

Here’s what a well-crafted prompt with a few follow-ups can get you in the way of a career objective:

Ready to leverage my expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and Angular at Intel, I aim to progress into a senior engineering role with a focus on mastering web and user interface development. Eager to excel in fast-paced environments and contribute to innovative solutions, I’m ready to learn from Intel’s top engineers to deepen my knowledge of client processors and accelerate my growth.

A ChatGPT resume summary

Now, a summary. Don’t forget to guide ChatGPT toward focusing on your past achievements and how they can translate to real-world gains for your next employer.

Your friendly neighborhood AI may come up with something like this:

With 15 years of diverse experience in personal training, including gym and football coaching, I’m ready to meet the demands of a rigorous fitness environment. At Planet Fitness, I aim to leverage my experience, including spearheading a gym loyalty program that boosted customer retention by 19%, to lead the Personal Training Department toward new heights of success and client satisfaction.

You’ll often have to tweak this yourself before pasting it right at the top of your chosen resume outline .

Polishing your ChatGPT Resume

So, you’ve fed ChatGPT your life story, and you’re now officially a ChatGPT resume writer.

Is your finger now hovering over the “Send” button in your email client of choice? It might be tempting, but don’t do it yet!

First, run through our checklist of resume tips to consider right before takeoff.

• Just like you wouldn’t want to read purely AI-generated content, neither do recruiters. Check whether your resume has a unique voice and writing style that aligns with your own.
• For some jobs, adding hobbies/interests , certifications, or a link to your portfolio can be a great idea. Consider expanding your resume to include those for a bit of pizzazz.
• Check your resume for active voice, the use of helpful metrics, filler words, and more, saving you both time and stress.
• Don’t let a silly typo be the reason you get a “No.”
• Picking the right resume template can make the difference between getting shortlisted and getting ghosted. Make sure your resume is clean, easy to follow, and limited to a single page to maximize your chances of success.

Finally, writing a resume is necessary, but it’s a good idea to also include a personalized cover letter. This shows the employer you care, and if you write a good cover letter , it’ll emphasize not only your skills but also how much you fit that particular company’s culture.

ChatGPT Resume Prompts for Best Results

ChatGPT is a mighty helpful tool, but it’s not without fault. For instance, it can veer off-topic or use a LOT of words to say very little. Neither have any place in your resume, but don’t worry—we’ll show you how to make the most of your everyday AI companion.

Let’s go over everything you need to know to prompt ChatGPT into making you an amazing resume.

ChatGPT prompts for job achievement bullet points

Here’s the first prompt that opens the door to efficient dialogue with ChatGPT:

I’m a software engineer with seven years of experience and skills in back-end development. I want you to write me a work experience bullet point that relates to one of my tasks in a previous role, which was building an intelligent search functionality.

And here’s what ChatGPT comes back with:

Why this ChatGPT prompt works

• Notice how the prompt is specific from the get-go? That’s the way to get useful responses from ChatGPT. Make sure to include your job title and the skill or achievement you want to focus on.

This next prompt can help you get even more specific:

Enhance this bullet point with a mention of a technology that helped me achieve this. The job description emphasizes Python, Django, and C++, but you should only use what’s relevant to my achievement.

ChatGPT generates the following:

• Work experience bullet points work best when they tell the full story, combining your achievements with your resume skills .

While the mention of technologies is crucial, ChatGPT did its usual thing and went a little off-base. This prompt will help you bring it back on track to achieve the perfect bullet point:

Tweak this bullet point to focus on impact, including quantifiable metrics. Limit it to a single sentence that explains what I did, how I did it, and the impact that my work has had. Use active voice throughout and do not use first person.

And boom. ChatGPT gets back on the train track:

• It cuts out the unnecessary fluff from the previous iterations and shines a light on your achievements.

ChatGPT prompts for a resume summary or objective

The key to getting the perfect resume objective or summary out of ChatGPT is to provide it with plenty of guidance from the get-go:

I’m a physical therapist with three years of experience, and I am applying to Massage Envy as a massage therapist. Craft me a targeted career objective that mentions the company name and emphasizes my skill in mobility therapy.

ChatGPT complies with our request:

• With this prompt, ChatGPT accurately pinpointed the skills the employer cares about , and that’s without extra guidance!

This next prompt is what you should use if you’re a seasoned pro in need of an engaging summary:

Craft me a targeted career summary for a software engineer specializing in AI technologies, highlighting innovation and problem-solving skills. I’m applying to work at Nvidia and have in-depth knowledge of CUDA cores and GPU architecture.

Not bad, ChatGPT, not bad:

• You don’t have to write the resume summary yourself, but if you imagine it in your head and let ChatGPT make it come to life, it’ll turn out a lot better than if you just let the AI wing it.

If you’re generally happy with the outcome and just want ChatGPT to make it sound better, try this prompt:

Improve the summary to make it less wordy. Get rid of inconsequential terms and focus on my experience using active voice. Include a key achievement (writing a GPU programming framework). Maximum two sentences for the whole summary.

ChatGPT seems to love wordiness, but with a little push, it’ll get in line:

• Remember that once you’re done chit-chatting with ChatGPT, there will always be room for improvement. Give your resume a once-over and tweak the summary as needed!

ChatGPT prompts to perfect your resume

To make your resume better than ever, consider using this prompt:

Rewrite this job achievement to highlight the impact on team efficiency: ‘Responsible for leading a team to implement a new project management software.’ Include quantifiable metrics and the name of the software, Asana.

• Adding the mention of quantifiable metrics is how you make your work experience points go from “nice” to “amazing,” showing recruiters what you’re capable of.

If you’re at a loss when it comes to filling out your skills section , let ChatGPT be your inspiration:

I’m a digital marketer. The job description asks for experience in social media, marketing campaigns, and relevant SEO tools. Write me a bullet point list of 10 relevant skills, including software and marketing techniques. Two to three words per skill.

ChatGPT delivers. Just make sure whatever skills you add from ChatGPT are truly skills you’re versed in:

• You can ask ChatGPT for even more skills, but stop at around 10 in your resume to keep it clutter-free.

No work experience? No problem!

Write me a career objective for a college student applying to work at Best Buy. I’m good with computers and know how to use MS Office. Emphasize that I’m eager to learn and grow within the company. Keep it concise at a maximum of two sentences, and use active voice.

This is how ChatGPT can help elevate your resume:

• If you’re not happy with the quality of the outputs, ask ChatGPT to reword, use shorter words, or stay on topic.

It’s clear that ChatGPT resume writing has its merits, but should you trust the AI to handle your resume? There’s almost no reason not to, but be mindful of a few things.

There’s no beating around the bush—ChatGPT turns resume writing from a chore to a quick stepping stone toward landing a job. Some employers, particularly those in the AI or tech space, may embrace that you’ve used ChatGPT to speed up the process. Other employers, however, might not see it in the same light.

Aside from the above, the perks of using ChatGPT for your resume include:

• It’s a lot quicker
• It helps if you lack inspiration
• It’s fairly accurate about most jobs
• It has a large knowledge base, including thousands of roles

Nothing is perfect, especially not ChatGPT. The downside is that once you’ve seen enough of its writing, it’s glaringly obvious and easy to spot. It’s not as easy as feeding it the job description and pressing “Generate.”

Here are some reasons why you should be wary:

• ChatGPT can have its preconceived ideas, and it tends to go on and on
• It sounds like AI and will never truly replicate your voice
• Some employers will be adamant that you have written your own resume free of AI
• ChatGPT still makes errors

Our 3 Best ChatGPT Resume Writing Tips

Having followed our guide, you’re now quite the ChatGPT prompt engineer! These final three tips will make sure your resume stands out from the crowd and gets you that job.

• ChatGPT for resumes is more of a baseline than the finished product. Once you’re done working with it, go over everything, revise it to make it sound more natural, and then analyze it all with a resume checker . This gives you a top-notch resume with far less work than writing it from scratch.
• ChatGPT will come up with relevant skills and achievements based on your job, but remember to only include metrics and accomplishments that you can back up with experience. Interviewers may ask you to elaborate on any and all parts of your resume.
• Provide ChatGPT with as much information upfront as you can, including your skills, achievements, current and past roles, education, and the job description. A detailed prompt will give you a useful response, while a short and vague question produces subpar replies.

For a bite-sized guide to using ChatGPT to write a resume, check out our quick FAQs.

Tackle each part of your resume separately, tailoring your prompts to match the task. Give ChatGPT a lot of context as to what you do and the job you’re applying for, then ask it to write a job experience bullet point, a career summary/objective, or even a skills list.

If you’re not happy with the response, rephrase your question or ask it to fix something, such as the wording or the length of the response.

It’s often easier to use an AI-based resume checker instead of ChatGPT for this. However, you can either paste each section one by one into ChatGPT and ask it for detailed feedback or give it specific prompts, such as, “Improve this job bullet point to focus on ROI.”

Copy and paste the job description into ChatGPT to give it a good idea of what you’re looking for. Next, share some details about your background and ask it for help with specific parts of your resume. Asking it to write the whole resume at once usually produces very lackluster responses.

Use detailed prompts that direct the AI toward what you want it to do. Simply saying, “Write me a resume for a caregiver,” won’t give you a high-quality resume.

Instead, use a specific prompt, such as, “Write me a personalized career summary for a caregiver with 15 years of experience. Mention my expertise in ADLs and how this can contribute to the role at Sunset Valley Homes.”

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How to Use ChatGPT to Write a Resume: Simple, Fast, Effective

3 key takeaways

• How to use ChatGPT to write your resume
• Using ChatGPT to update your existing resume
• A faster way to write your resume with ChatGPT technology using the AI Resume Builder

Everyone on the internet seems to be talking about artificial intelligence (AI) lately—and especially a tool called ChatGPT.

But what's ChatGPT exactly? And how do you access it? Here's everything you need to know about how the platform works, and how you can leverage it to write a resume or CV.

What is ChatGPT and how does it work?

You may be more familiar with artificial intelligence than you think.

If you've ever used AI-enabled assistants like Siri and Alexa, where you can ask questions and get an immediate response in return, you've experienced firsthand how artificial intelligence can integrate with your day-to-day life to provide real-time answers.

Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer—ChatGPT for short—is a powerful new artificial intelligence tool developed by OpenAI, one of the world’s most ambitious AI labs, that uses natural language processing (NLP) technology to help people communicate with computers more naturally and intuitively. The latest model as of July 2024 is ChatGPT-4o.

Can I use ChatGPT to write a resume?

Now that you’ve gained some insight into ChatGPT let’s talk about using AI tools like ChatGPT to write your resume. So … can you?

Yes, of course, you can. And you should. (But only if you follow the process below!)

Creating a resume requires a lot of effort; AI tools like ChatGPT make this easier by…

• Saving time: Quickly generate the content of your resume based on the prompts and information you provide.
• Customizing your resume : Match the details to the job you're applying for.
• Identifying strengths : Suggest skills or experiences that you may have overlooked but are relevant to the job.
• Increasing your chances of success : Create a well-written, accurate, and amazing resume that showcases your skills and experience in the best light.

So, let's get started by going over how you can start using ChatGPT to not only write your resume, but also to update, enhance, and review your resume to help you hit your career goals.

How to use ChatGPT to write a resume

So you've decided to try out artificial intelligence to help speed up your process. When it comes to AI and ChatGPT, the use cases are seemingly endless, but here are four ways to start to leverage ChatGPT for your resume.

1. Use ChatGPT to write resume bullets and tailor your resume to a job description

You've heard it's important to tailor your resume to the job description to show that you're a qualified candidate for the role—but how can you ensure your bullet points reflect that? In addition to using Teal's ChatGPT-integrated Resume Builder, try leveraging ChatGPT for this part of the process:

• Log into Teal and go to "Matching Mode" in your Resume Builder, then select one of the jobs from your Job Application Tracker to focus on.
• Go to the "Job Description" tab and scroll to the "Responsibilities" section.
• Copy the responsibilities and paste them into ChatGPT. Enter this prompt: "Write resume achievements with metrics based on these job responsibilities."
• Watch the magic happen!
• Copy the output from ChatGPT and, one at a time, paste them into your Teal Resume Builder as bullets.
• Make sure to carefully proofread and edit the bullet point achievement, tweaking it as needed using the Bullet Assistant tool. Remember: AI tools are intelligent, but they're not foolproof. You want to ensure you actually have the experience that AI says you do, and you want to double-check for spelling, grammar, punctuation, and clarity.
• Turn on and off the bullets that make sense for the job you're applying to.

Use Teal's new AI functionality to create tailored bullets

Alternatively, you can skip these steps and just use Teal's AI functionality to create custom resume bullets.

Not only will these assets be created quickly and easily to speed up your resume workflow, but they’ll also be crafted using your previous work experience and the job description of the target role, to make your bullet points increasingly relevant.

Try it yourself for free.

2. Use ChatGPT to write a professional summary

Professional summaries are another hot topic. Some recruiters and hiring managers say they're helpful as they speak to a candidate's career in aggregate and highlight their key accomplishments. Others argue it's a waste of space and job seekers should dive right into their skills and achievements.

We're fans of the professional summary, especially if you have multiple years of work experience or are pivoting to a new career or industry.

Here's how to use ChatGPT to write a professional summary for your resume:

• Once you've tailored your resume in the Teal resume creator , copy the text.
• For the ChatGPT prompt, say: "Write a professional summary using my resume."
• Press "Shift" + "Enter."
• Paste your resume into ChatGPT.
• When you get your result, click "try again" to generate two more versions.
• Pull your favorite phrases from each option and create a cohesive, reflective, customized, and eye-catching resume summary.
• Paste the final summary into the tailored resume you plan to use.

Write your resume summary with AI

Again, you can use Teal's AI functionality to handle this for you and create professional summaries in seconds. And with the combo of Teal's Resume Builder and Job Application Tracker , it's easy to save all your job search assets in one place. This eliminates the need to keep multiple documents and go back and forth between ChatGPT, job descriptions, and your resume. 

3. Use ChatGPT to write a cover letter

And now, the most controversial topic: cover letters.

Spend five minutes on LinkedIn or TikTok and you'll see heated debates over the value and importance of cover letters, whether recruiters and hiring managers even read them, and whether they're an outdated part of the job search in 2023.

But still, many jobs you apply for may request a customized cover letter that speaks specifically to the company and position.

Much like tailored resumes, cover letters should highlight what you’ve accomplished relevant to the role while persuading those hiring that you’re the best fit for the job. It might sound complicated, but it doesn’t have to be— ChatGPT can help you write your cover letter seamlessly.

How to do it:

• Once you've used "Matching Mode" to create a resume tailored to a particular role in your Teal Job Application Tracker, go ahead and copy the text from that resume and paste it into ChatGPT.
• Head back to your Job Application Tracker and go to the job description for this role. Copy and paste the requirements and responsibilities into ChatGPT alongside your resume.
• For the prompt, write, "Write a cover letter using my resume and a job description."
• Edit your new cover letter in Google Docs as needed before saving and sending it.

Cover letters are another area where the Resume Builder can help you skip the middle man, quickly generating a cover letter relevant to the role you're applying for and your work history. 

4. Use ChatGPT to update and improve your existing resume

In addition to using ChatGPT to create or write your resume from scratch, another powerful use case is leveraging it to make key revisions to your existing resume using AI.

How to improve your resume with ChatGPT

Here are four examples of how you can utilize ChatGPT to make improvements:

• Rewriting your work experience with more impactful language:  One effective way you can enhance your resume with ChatGPT is by asking it to help you incorporate fresh language, power words into your work experience to better articulate your successes and make your bullet points stand out.
• Personalize your professional summary for a specific job:  It can't be understated how crucial it is to align your resume with the particular role that you're applying for. Use ChatGPT to modify your existing summary so that it's more aligned with the responsibilities and requirements of the position. For every new job you apply for, ChatGPT can help you make the necessary adjustments to your resume to ensure you position yourself as an ideal fit.
• Provide relevant content ideas for your skills, experiences, and achievements:  When you're hitting a wall on a resume refresh, ChatGPT can be an excellent resource to replace or revamp the existing information included in your work experience or skills sections. To ensure you get the best recommendations from ChatGPT, be sure to share both the text from your resume, and from the job description to help ChatGPT identify gaps or improvements.
• Review your resume for punctuation and grammar errors:  Another recommended use of ChatGPT is to have it review your current resume for any grammar mistakes, typos, or awkward sentences you might miss in your proofreading. Think of it like a second pair of eyes available 24/7 and never tired.

‍ Looking for more inspiration for your resume? Check out 1,200+ resume examples for various job titles, experience levels, and get cover letter templates for each role.

The best ChatGPT resume prompts for resume writing

Since we’ve been using ChatGPT for resume writing, cover letters, LinkedIn content, and more, we’ve come across some tips that we’d love to share—and we've rounded up a list of over 20 ChatGPT resume prompts for your resume here.

First, we suggest including a tone or style of writing. This could be “conversational,” but it could also be a framework like Storybrand. This will allow ChatGPT to write in a way that feels natural and close to your style.

Additionally, we suggest including a word or page count and asking ChatGPT to review additional materials that are pasted below the prompt. 

The prompts below follow this specific structure. 

• Write four resume bullet points with metrics based on the job responsibilities below.
• Draft five persuasive resume bullet points based on my resume below.
• Create a compelling professional summary for a job application using my resume and the job description below as a reference in 150 words or less. 
• Write an executive-level professional summary using my resume and the job description below as a reference in 150 words or less. 
• Using the resume and job description below, please showcase eight relevant skills I should highlight.

With Teal's AI Resume Builder, all of this information will be stored in your account, which makes AI resume creation effective.

5 best practices on using ChatGPT for resume writing

Can ChatGPT really help with your resume? Yes, it absolutely can. However, successfully using ChatGPT requires more than a simple command, you'll need to use your best judgement and be thoughtful about the inputs that you provide, to ensure a quality output.

To help you leverage it most effectively, here are five best practices to keep in mind:

• Be specific and provide detailed prompts to ChatGPT . Some may argue that the AI space is oversaturated and that everyone will get the same outputs if they enter the same inputs. Although your AI-generated response may not be 100% unique, it can be modified once the foundation's in place. Writing effective prompts is the key to getting the most out of ChatGPT's capabilities.
• Provide relevant assets to help ensure personalization. In each section above, we asked ChatGPT to review a specific job role, and/or a resume to help it craft a more personalized answer. We highly suggest when using ChatGPT that you provide it with all the resources it needs to create an answer that's crafted specifically for you.
• Review and edit the output from ChatGPT to ensure it's accurate and professional. Again, we don't condone lying about your experience (with our without AI!) Use in this capacity is meant to assist job seekers, not to fabricate career histories that can't be backed up with truthful examples.
• Proofread and double-check for errors before sending any materials generated by ChatGPT. Though artificial intelligence is sophisticated, it's not always 100% spot-on. (And neither are we as humans.) We always like to recommend a tool like Grammarly for a grammar and spell check.
• Ask for human feedback before submitting . Whether you ask a mentor, friend, or career coach for input before submitting, it's a good idea to get a second set of eyes on your resume before submitting it to keep a human eye out for any potential problems.

Leverage Teal's ChatGPT Resume Builder to write a more effective resume

Your resume is more than just a list of your qualifications and experiences; it's the ticket to your dream job. With the help of tools like ChatGPT, a job seeker like you can create a well-written, targeted, and accurate resume that showcases your strengths and experience in the best possible light.

Using the steps above, you can leverage the power of AI to take your resume to the next level, but Teal can streamline this process even further, helping you work smarter and more efficiently.

Teal's AI Resume Builder is already integrated with ChatGPT, offering a range of tools to optimize your resume, including summary and bullet point generation, cover letter composition, and more—without toggling between screens and programs. Say goodbye to tedious manual work and hello to quick and easy resume building.

Ready to take control of your career?

More ChatGPT resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn tips:

• 21 Great ChatGPT Prompts for Your Resume
• How to Use ChatGPT to Write Your Cover Letter
• The Ultimate Guide to Using AI & ChatGPT for Job Applications ‍
• 4 Ways to Use ChatGPT to Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile (with Prompts)
• 7 Ways to Use ChatGPT to Prepare for a Job Interview

Frequently Asked Questions

Can i use chatgpt to write my resume.

Yes! You can use ChatGPT to help write your resume by providing information about your skills, experience, and the job you're applying for and then prompting it to use those details to create your resume.

How do I ask ChatGPT to improve my resume?

To ask ChatGPT to improve your resume, share your current resume content and specify areas you'd like to improve or ask for general suggestions. The more specific your prompts, the better the output will be.

How do I get AI to write my resume?

You can try a program like ChatGPT or opt for the Resume Builder  instead. With Teal, you can write and optimize your resume and cover letter with AI in one central location—no more toggling between programs or juggling multiple documents.

Should I use ChatGPT for resume writing?

Yes, you should use ChatGPT for resume writing if you struggle to articulate your experiences and skills. AI can be a very helpful tool for being the blank page and providing a starting point. Just remember to review and customize all AI-generated content to ensure it accurately reflects your experience.

How can I ask ChatGPT to tailor my resume?

To ask ChatGPT to tailor your resume, provide specific details about your experience, skills, and the job description of the position you're applying for. Then try a prompt like. "Using my resume and the job description below, please tailor my [specific resume section] to this position." Giving ChatGPT context means the output will be more personalized to you and a unique job.

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Human evolution always accelerates when new tools become available. As we strive to do things more efficiently, AI technology may prove to be a natural partner - particularly where language and communication are concerned. ChatGPT is an AI model that can generate human-like text, having trained on the enormity of the internet. A user can prompt it with a question or a request and ChatGPT will use its immense processing capability to provide the best possible answer.

In terms of pure creativity, its flaws are evident. When it comes to prompting creativity from a human partner, it is unrivaled. The ability of ChatGPT to spark thoughts in a user can be useful in many situations. When someone sits down to write a life-critical document such as a resume, the benefits cannot be ignored.

In this blog, we explore how ChatGPT might be used to help job seekers write their resume. It is also undoubtedly useful in writing a cover letter and drafting messages to potential employers, but we will focus on resume writing. We consider:

What is ChatGPT and how does it work?

• How can ChatGPT help with a resume
• Risks of using AI for job search writing
• Example AI prompts for your resume

It may take a while to understand its potential, so experiment with it. Much of the following blog should prove very relevant for anyone who is looking for a new role.

Here is a description of ChatGPT in its own words:

“ChatGPT is an advanced language processing AI developed by OpenAI. It's built on the GPT-4 architecture, which uses machine-learning techniques to generate human-like text. This AI has been trained on a diverse range of internet text to understand and mimic the subtleties of human communication.

Its capabilities extend beyond simple Q&A. It can write essays, summarize text, translate languages, generate creative content, and even draft emails or resumes. However, it's crucial to note that while it mimics understanding, ChatGPT doesn't truly comprehend the text it generates or processes. It's an AI language model, not a sentient being.”

The opportunities to use ChatGPT as a resume-writing assistant are clear. When you are struggling to share your career accomplishments, its ability to come up with a range of options will unlock any creative block. When you take into account the ability to inform it by including a job description and your thoughts about what a hiring manager might be looking for, it may well prove to be a powerful writing companion.

How can ChatGPT help with a resume?

If you view AI as a tool to use selectively for your resume writing, it may prove useful in several ways. At a pivotal point in your life when you need all the inspiration that you can get, why wouldn’t you welcome a perspective from a virtual wordsmith?

The most valuable benefit of ChatGPT for a job seeker is to provide inspiration. No AI system can delve deep enough into the psyche of each individual job seeker to tease out their unique value, but it can certainly help them on their journey of discovery. 

Chat GPT won’t write your resume for you , but if given the right framework it can become an ideas machine. So many people understandably sit and stare at their blank computer screens and wonder where to start. Tell it where you are struggling - you might be surprised.

While your resume should be written in a way that mirrors your speech (you can provide a writing sample to ChatGPT), you may wish to differentiate your achievements so that they don’t all sound the same. Picking the right action verbs is a good start here, but you can ask AI to come up with 4-5 variants of saying the same thing. Writing a resume is easier when you can pick and choose the exact phraseology that feels right in your situation.

You can ask ChatGPT to write the same thing in different ways, summarizing three sentences into a bullet point or expanding a brief list into a persuasive paragraph. Anything goes when you play around with it a little. You’ll be thinking “Oooh, that sounds good” within minutes.

One of the hardest tasks when using an AI resume maker is crafting the summary section. This is located at the top of the resume, so it is often the first thing a hiring manager reads.

When you sit down to write it, it is likely that your final version won’t be too different from your first version. For some reason, there is a certain aversion to changing what you have already written, but clinging to substandard ideas can be damaging. ChatGPT can give you multiple versions of a summary with ease – you specify the content and keywords as you wish.

The demands of each job description can vary significantly. While you may wish to use ChatGPT to help tweak your resume for each role (see the next point), one use of the technology may be to produce a few versions of an ideal resume that would fit the job description perfectly.

You could then use such model responses to inform your decisions about how you write your resume. You won’t have access to the resumes of your competitors, so that may at least give you an idea of what you might be up against and what your resume may be lacking.

While it is important to tailor your job application to each role, much of this adaptation usually takes place within the cover letter. Having multiple variants of a resume can get confusing. Companies will expect to see a consistent version of you – whether your resume has come to them directly, from a recruiter, or whether they are looking at your LinkedIn.

Having said this, there may be cases where you have the experience that is demanded by the job description that is not on your “normal” resume. Previously, job seekers would not have had time to tailor their resumes in such a way, but ChatGPT certainly simplifies the process.

Extra note: subscribe to use the advanced ChatGPT-4 model if you can. While the capabilities of this premium model have been throttled slightly since its introduction, its creativity, and output are a vast improvement on ChatGPT-3.

4 Risks of using AI for job search writing

Think carefully about how you use AI in your job search . There are undoubtedly benefits, but it is not without its risks.

Authenticity is critical when you are looking for a job. If the person that comes into the interview doesn’t sound like the person on the resume, the disconnect will linger in a hiring manager’s mind. AI can construct an alternate version of you that you would love to be like, but that doesn’t quite stand up to the intense questioning during an interview.

While you can model the tone and voice of the AI output and provide writing samples to align the style, the fact remains that as more people use ChatGPT and other AI tools to help with their resumes, there is a chance that AIs will start to churn out idealized resumes that all look similar. Would you really want the hiring manager to know that you used AI to help you? Of course, not. Make sure that your resume reflects your individuality.

Job seekers risk assuming that AI is infallible. ChatGPT most certainly does not have all the answers and the end product for your resume may well be far from what your desire. With all the marketing hype there is a danger that people will think that the AI output is “as good as it gets.” Sure, it can help you, but only if you adopt a critical and discerning attitude.

Now, for a final warning:

There is plenty of software out there that people can use to test whether AI has been deployed in a piece of writing. As software such as ChatGPT evolves, these detection methods will improve with it. Theoretically, there is nothing wrong with using AI to assist your resume writing, but if you get it to do all of the work then you risk being found out .

6 Prompts for your resume

When you ask ChatGPT to help you write your resume, you need to give it something to work with. You can obviously ask it to come up with a generic resume for your job title, but that won’t help you much as it won’t get close the reflecting your unique experience.

Here are six prompts that may give you some ideas to work with. It is usual practice to guide ChatGPT with select amounts of example text to guide its output. This is usually included at the end of the prompt text, but for the sake of these examples, the inputs are embedded within the prompts. If the input text (i.e. job description) is longer, you can include it in a separate prompt and then refer back to it.

Be specific with your prompts, customize the input as much as possible, and use multiple prompts to generate a range of responses. The quality of the output is directly proportionate to the quality of the input. Here are some ideas:

• Create four bullet points based on my list of *input* achievements provided below that best fit with the *input* job description.
• Draft a five-line summary that will fit the *input* job description below, including the following *input* list of my career motivations, achievements, and personal traits.
• Share a list of four quantifiable achievements that a hiring manager would expect – based on the *input* job description. Pick rare achievements that only the top 10% of job seekers in this industry will be able to boast of.
• Tell me the top ten skills that a hiring manager will be looking for based on this *input* job description. Give me an example bullet point of how to showcase each skill within an industry-specific accomplishment.
• Rewrite the*input* summary to include more action verbs. Include at least four keywords from the *input* job description. Write no more than 400 characters.
• Which of the following *input* achievements should I mention that is the best fit for the *input* job description. Justify your choices and tell me why the hiring manager will be impressed. Imagine that you are an *input industry and function* hiring manager.

None of the above is rocket science, but given the fact that ChatGPT can give you multiple variations on a theme within seconds, you never quite know when it will come up with something that makes you think “hey, that sounds like a bit of me.” Most importantly, remember that you can and should edit the output. 

Be as creative as you like with your prompts. It is a process of trial and error - stick with it. It may take a couple of days to optimize your resume content as prompt volume limits may constrain you. Have patience – its next suggestion might be exactly what you need.

Key takeaways

More of your job search rivals will be using AI technology to help them in their job search than you think. There is no question whether you should be using AI models such as ChatGPT. You should. The question revolves around how you make the most of its capability.

• ChatGPT is a writing companion – don’t rely on it to do all the work.
• A creative and thoughtful prompt will ensure an interesting output.
• Be aware of the risks of using AI. Authenticity is important in a job search.
• The resume should still sound like you – get a friend to proofread it.

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ChatGPT’s gray areas and limitations

You'd have surely been the joke of the party if you had told someone in 2013 that you held within your hand a tool that could:

• write love letters to your significant other;
• hint at the secret ingredient of Coca-Cola, and at the same time;
• debug your Python code.

Yet, our 2024 reality welcomes a new sheriff in town!

Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer or ChatGPT is a chatbot that can do all that and even more.

ChatGPT is scary good. We are not far from dangerously strong AI.

Elon Musk, founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner and CEO of Twitter, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the philanthropic Musk Foundation.

Launched as a prototype in November 2022, ChatGPT is a free large language model (a type of AI) that can:

• create, translate and synthesize texts;
• keep up their end of the conversation;
• help you write your resume ;
• perform other NLP (natural language processing) tasks.

…the best artificial intelligence chatbot ever released to the general public.

Kevin Roose, technology columnist, The New York Times, " The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT "

ChatGPT uses machine learning algorithms and massive amounts of digital data to produce life-like responses

The chatbot was created by the startup, Open AI. The Wall Street Journal notes that OpenAI is in talks about selling existing shares to interested investors, valuing the company at $29 billion.

ChatGPT is on the crest of the wave. Even though the chatbot itself can't review the number of registered accounts, various industry professionals are experimenting with it.

A New York Times article even disclosed that Google feels “alarmed” due to the potential of ChatGPT. More specifically, how large language models could replace search engines.

If that doesn't hint at the future, we don't know what does.

This leads us to a couple of our main points, which you’d find out more about in this article:

• Can you use ChatGPT to write your resume for you?
• What are ChatGPT writing prompts?
• Eight ChatGPT prompts to improve your resume right now;
• Emails, cover letters , and interviews turned into a piece of cake with ChatGPT;
• What are the existing gray areas and limitations of this chatbot?

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Producing a resume to get you hired for the role is a never-ending story. One that takes up so much time and effort that some candidates may give up.

That's where ChatGPT comes in. Use its strengths to synthesize and write in a systematic and articulate style.

ChatGPT is best used when you:

• are looking for details about the more common jobs;
• need to shine among competitors;
• decide on finally overcoming your writer's block.

What is more, ChatGPT can provide you with relatively life-like answers. So, consider implementing it within these three stages.

Resume reviews and re-rewrites to find out:

• popular certifications ;
• top keywords related to the job description;
• skills , responsibilities, and requirements for the role.

Mock interviews to practice:

• answering job-specific, technical questions;
• shining light on your soft skills ;
• using the STAR (situation, task, action, result) as proof of your capabilities.

Cover letter writing to produce a more succinct and stylized copy.

But before you get too far ahead of dreaming about how ChatGPT writes your whole resume, here's a heads-up.

Even though ChatGPT is a very powerful tool, it's still being developed and has some gray areas. Consider using a dedicated AI resume builder to make sure you are getting the best experience and efficiency out of AI.

The AI can't yet replace other resources you may need to write your resume, cover letter, or email.

It's a fantastic tool for reworking individual experience items and also learning the basics of writing for entry-level roles. But we'll get into more details below.

For now, let's focus on those ChatGPT prompts.

ChatGPT prompts: writing, reviewing, and enhancing your resume, cover letter, and job application

What are chatgpt prompts.

ChatGPT's prompts are conversation starters: the information you input, which is most often a question or a request.

This chatbot would never ghost you - in a few seconds, it responds in a human-like manner.

Here's a rule of thumb to remember about ChatGPT prompts.

Keep in mind

ChatGPT is not a psychic looking into a crystal ball.

It's up to you to provide the appropriate resume details, as the quality of the generated output depends on the quality of your input.

The more specific information you provide, the more specific answers you'd get. ChatGPT will try, but it can't fabricate your whole work history.

Only you know what you've achieved as a result of your experience.

ChatGPT can rather take your writing (in narrative form) and output texts, tailored based on the prompts you've entered.

So when using this chatbot to write a good resume, you should:

• be thoroughly detailed and specific;
• explain your experience to provide context;
• ask clarifying questions to fill in the gaps.

The texts generated by ChatGPT should be your starting point.

It's up to you to improve your resume by:

• adjusting and reviewing the outputs for accuracy (and professionalism)
• editing, proofreading, and double-checking
• asking for a second pair of eyes to look over your resume
• adding your personal touch to stand out

Without further ado, let's dive right into a couple of useful prompts you can use to write your resume!

Using ChatGPT to review your resume

When training any AI to synthesize information, you need to start from the very beginning. That is, to assign specific roles to the chat participants.

In this case, ChatGPT should act as a resume reviewer, responsible for providing feedback on

• Whether you have all the necessary resume sections ?
• Is your resume easy to understand?
• Would you need to add more achievements?
• What about the types of action verbs ?
• Finally, the keyword quantity: are the buzzwords provided enough?

Here's what your prompt would look like:

I want you to act as a resume reviewer. I will provide you with my resume, and you look provide me with feedback on it. Include feedback on the following points: - What appropriate sections to add for making my resume more readable. - How to make my resume easier to scan. - What kind of numbers and results can I add to my resume. - What type of action verbs should I choose. - Am I using too many buzzwords and how to replace them, if so. Do you acknowledge?

Your role would be to thus paste your resume. In this case, we've included:

• Header - name, current job title, and email;
• Education - all relevant degrees, institutions, locations, start-end dates, and any extra information you deem would be necessary for ChatGPT to understand your background;
• Experience - start and end dates, company description, a narrative about what you did with a focus on skills and achievements;
• Certificates - include all;
• Technical Skills - as a list;
• Soft Skills - with a focus on the outcomes of using the skills;
• Most Proud Of - looking at the big picture achievements for the business;
• Various resume sections - to shine a more detailed light on your experience.

ChatGPT didn't disappoint. Check out its synthesized responses below:

It noted that skills, certifications, and relevant professional memberships would be "beneficial" additions to your resume.

As well, a summary or objective - to put your "professional experience, skills, and career goals" in front and center - are always a good idea.

To ensure readability, the resume needs to have:

• clear and consistent formatting with bullet points
• action verbs at the beginning of the experience bullet points to showcase your responsibilities and accomplishments
• bold or italicized texts to highlight important details
• numbers or results in other resume sections (e.g. education or skills)
• balanced use of buzzwords to demonstrate industry expertise

There was an overall assessment and recommendations for a couple of tweaks.

We wanted to get the most out of the ChatGPT experience, and that's why we followed up with these questions.

Just FYI, I have added Tech Skills and Soft Skills section above. Should I rename them or not?

ChatGPT recommends that we should personalize these headlines to ensure that they reflect our particular skill set.

Do I also have to include a summary or objective or not?

ChatGPT notes summaries and objectives are optional but good to have as they give recruiters (and the ATS) a snapshot of your skills and professional goals.

More so, summaries and objectives help candidates to stand out amongst their competitors.

As a reminder:

• Summary statements - three-to-five sentences that shine a light on your most relevant and/or impressive achievements. Zooming in on your experience, skills, and qualification.
• Objective statements - have a similar format, but prioritize your career goals. You're aiming to align your unique skill set to the role you're applying for.

Whatever you decide, remember to always tailor your summary or objective to the position you're applying for.

Can you tailor one for me, please?

In just a couple of seconds, the chatbot was ready for us. With a reminder that these are just examples and that they need to be further personalized to reflect your professional journey.

Find out the summary and objective statements ChatGPT came up with below:

Test it for yourself to see ChatGPT’s recommendations. Read on to find out more about how to write the skills and summary sections of your resume with ChatGPT.

Tailor your resume to the job description with ChatGPT

Let's look at another scenario. What if you've found that dream job you'd really like to apply for? You have your resume ready…

… now it's time to tailor it with ChatGPT!

Start off with a prompt that once more specifies the roles.

You'd expect ChatGPT to assess the job description with a focus on these possible three key requirements:

• years of experience
• position name.

Asking the chatbot to thus provide you with feedback on how adequate your resume would be for the job you're applying to.

I'm going to provide you with a job description for a job I'm interested to apply for. You're going to read the job description and understand the key requirements for the position – including years of experience, skills, position name. After that I'm going to give you my resume. You'll go over it and provide feedback based on how tailored my resume is for the job. Do you understand?

You'd hence have two responsibilities.

First would be to input the full job advertisement that includes:

• company description
• information about the opportunity
• responsibilities
• requirements
• compensation and other benefits

ChatGPT would take the time to synthesize this input, providing you with concise information about the position you're applying for and the role's main responsibilities.

You'd find out details about the ideal candidate with a focus on

• soft / hard skills
• preferred experience
• salary range and benefits package.

Next, you'd have to paste your resume.

Here's the prompt you can use:

Now I'll give you my resume. Provide feedback on how I can tailor it to the above job post. Here's my resume: [PASTE FULL RESUME TEXT HERE]

Make sure to include all relevant details, including

• Industry Expertise

Here's what ChatGPT understood about the position.

Mandatory soft skills are experience with project management, good communication skills, and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced (and highly collaborative) environment.

Additional experience in managing legal documents is desirable.

The main recommendations for this resume were to strongly emphasize project management experience, work with legal documents, and soft skills.

ChatGPT reminded us to include specific examples of how the candidate has:

• successfully communicated and collaborated with multiple stakeholders;
• managed competing priorities and tight deadlines;
• worked in different time zones.

Regarding the education section, it noted that more details would make an even better impression (e.g. degree and majors , relevant coursework , and other educational activities).

Finally, it reminded us to include all languages the candidate is fluent in, as it might be desirable for this job.

Asking ChatGPT to rephrase your experience or for synonyms

We all know how important action verbs are, especially when talking about your professional experience. But sometimes candidates do struggle with making their resumes more illustrative of their achievements.

We’ve got you covered, let’s look at how ChatGPT can:

• rephrase your experience items;
• substitute verbs with more actionable synonyms.

Rephrasing your resume experience

Starting with this writing prompt that you can use to bring the action to the very front of your resume:

I'm writing my resume and I want to make it sound better. Can you go over my Experience section and make it sound more actionable?

• • Received product feedback from customer interviews
• • Planned out the product roadmap
• • Presented market assessments to executives
• • Collaborated with the marketing and development teams

You'd then need to paste in the details about the job you're applying for.

Don't forget to include any relevant information:

• about the company
• what is the role about
• what you need to be successful
• what's it in for you
• and job type

Use this writing prompt:

Here's the Experience section I wrote: [PASTE FULL RESUME EXPERIENCE TEXT]

And here's the job ad I'm applying for: [PASTE FULL JOB AD]

ChatGPT then takes each experience bullet point and aligns it with the preferable job experience.

You'd see that each experience bullet is structured using the following formula:

“Action verb + skill + outcomes”

This information looks really professional, but it may not be accurate. ChatGPT fills in the blanks and sometimes makes things up along the way.

Including more actionable verbs

Here’s another alternative - what if you want to substitute the verbs you’ve used to make them sound more ready-to-go?

We suggest this ChatGPT resume prompt:

I'm sharing my Experience section on my resume. Please re-write it using actionable synonyms. [PASTE FULL RESUME TEXT]

Make sure it’s followed by once again with the whole picture of your experience item, which you’d like to have edited. We’ve used the same example as above.

Wondering what the ChatGPT output looks like?

Both of these prompts are a great starting point to help you gain a better understanding of resume writing structures and editing. But, it's entirely up to you to make your resume sound more personalized.

Synthesis by ChatGPT: creating both resume summaries and objectives

Summarizing texts is one of ChatGPT’s superpowers. Use it to create a catchy resume summary or objective to highlight your strengths.

We’ll use one of the previous resume examples with the following writing prompt:

I'm going to share with you my resume. Go over it and create two examples: one of a resume summary and one for a resume objective. Here's my resume: [PASTE FULL RESUME TEXT]

The more professional details you include within the prompt, the more likely the AI will be to learn about your specific achievements and strengths.

ChatGPT has created a wonderful base for you. If you decide, you can ask it to re-write the summary and objectives to provide you with alternatives.

Just don’t forget that ChatGPT does crash from time to time and it may wipe out all your current chats.

So ensure that you have all the summaries and objectives safely stored somewhere within a Google Doc or an MS Word file.

ChatGPT to improve the email you’d attach your resume to

Emailing your contacts.

We can't emphasize the importance of networking within the recruitment process.

As new job opportunities could come across to you from the most unexpected places.

Do you want to make a good first impression on an acquaintance, asking them to help you with your job search?

Use this ChatGPT trick/ prompt:

I'm going to provide you with an email I wrote. The email is about me, sending my resume to a distant friend who works at a company I want to join. Provide feedback on how I can improve it. Here's my email: paste full email text

Get inspired by one of our basic Enhancv templates.

Hey {NAME}!

It was great seeing you at {PLACE OF MEETING}. I hope work is treating you well today.

You mentioned something about {COMPANY NAME} hiring a {JOB POSITION} and I’d love to apply! I’m sending you my resume for your consideration. Find attached the appropriate files.

During my time at {PREV COMPANY} as a {PREV JOB POSITION} I carried out various communications projects, formed strategies, managed drafts, and editorial materials, established the company presence, amended legislation, a list of accomplishments, etc.

My most significant contribution to the company is that we achieved an increase of 55% within a year, thanks to my strategic and operational decision-making.

The opportunity you mentioned closely matches my field, which is why I am grateful to you.

Thanks for forwarding my resume.

Kind Regards, [Your given name]

ChatGPT recommends we should make this email more specific to the role we'd like to apply for by including

• a clear and relevant subject line;
• a sentence (or two) describing what you talked about when you met your contact and why you decided to send your resume across;
• instead of just listing what you've achieved, show how these accomplishments make you the ideal candidate for the job;
• contact details and a call to action (e.g. "I would appreciate the opportunity to further discuss my qualifications with you. Please let me know if there is a good time for us to speak.");
• a more formal salutation.

Emailing recruiters

Once again, we start our chat by helping the AI imagine the scenario.

A ChatGPT writing prompt when sending your resume out to hiring managers is:

I'm going to provide you with an email I wrote. The email is about me, sending my resume to a recruiter from a company I want to join. Provide feedback on how I can improve it. [PASTE FULL EMAIL TEXT]

This is the email we wrote to get the attention of hiring managers:

Subject: [POSITION] - [MY NAME]

Dear Hiring Manager, I am very interested in applying for the [POSITION] that is listed on [COMPANY].

I've attached my resume and cover letter.

If there's any additional information you need, please let me know.

Thank you very much for your consideration.

Sincerely, FirstName LastName Email Phone LinkedIn

ChatGPT really enjoyed how straight to the point our email was, but recommended to

• Include the recruiter's name in the greeting for more personalized communication;
• Show why you're a good fit by describing how your experience aligns with the role you're applying for;
• Double-check the spelling and grammar;
• Keep the subject line short and specific to the role;
• Instead of listing your contact details, include a professional signature with all the relevant information;
• Request the recruiters to contact you if they happen to have further questions or queries.

The chatbot even optimized our version:

Adapting your cover letter to your resume with ChatGPT

Formal tone of voice.

ChatGPT can surely come in handy when writing your cover letter , especially if you need help with tailoring it to align with your resume.

Imagine that you want your cover letter to sound a bit more sophisticated and refined.

We used this ChatGPT prompt to produce a more formal cover letter:

I want you to act as a cover letter writer. I will provide you with my resume, and you will generate a cover letter to complement it. I want the cover letter to have a formal, professional tone, as I will be applying to a corporation. Do you acknowledge?

Once ChatGPT understood its tasks, we followed up with these commands:

My preferred job will be [at Home Depot/ company name / as a Lead Analyst / role /, Finance Business Services/department/]. Here's a job description: paste full job advert text

And here is my resume: paste full resume text

Once again, make sure you paste in the full job description and all the text that makes up your resume.

With a little more personalization to demonstrate achievements and further why this candidate would be perfect for the role, this ChatGPT structure could work wonders:

Informal tone of voice

There are cases when you would want your cover letter to sound more casual.

For example, if you're applying for a startup or SME (small and medium-sized enterprises), where you know the company culture is more friendly.

ChatGPT has you covered:

I want you to act as a cover letter writer. I will provide you with my resume, and you will generate a cover letter to complement it. I want the cover letter to have a more informal tone, as I will be applying to a startup. Do you acknowledge?

The "I will be applying to a startup" can be substituted with specifics about the company you're applying for.

Find below the resume, which we pasted in ChatGPT with these two prompts:

Ok, here's my resume: [PASTE FULL RESUME TEXT]

And here's the job title and company: [PASTE FULL JOB AD TEXT]

Do you like the informal cover letter ChatGPT created for this candidate?

Acing your interviews with ChatGPT: practice giving STAR-format answers

You probably can't believe it, and neither could we when first heard about it. But, yes, ChatGPT can also help you get ready for your interview.

We all know those standard questions which interviewers tend to ask. What is more, you could use ChatGPT to also provide you with a list of some of the most popular questions they may ask for your specific role.

To these questions, hiring managers expect you to structure a response using the STAR method.

Where you describe the:

• Tasks at hand
• Actions you undertook
• Results you achieved.

Practice the STAR method with these ChatGPT prompts.

Here's my resume. If you've understood my background, say "understood". [PASTE FULL RESUME TEXT]

Once ChatGPT comprehends your experience, it's time to practice with the following prompt:

Now, can you write me a sample answer (based on my resume) which follows the STAR format : [WRITE INTERVIEW QUESTION]

In our example, we've used this popular interview question:

"Have you ever had to develop a new skill on the job? Tell me about your approach to the learning process."

A few moments later, ChatGPT's provided us with this answer.

Situation: with a little background and definition of what the actual problem was

Tasks: showcasing the thought process and research, alongside soft skills .

Action: detailing step-by-step the relevant actions, supplemented once again with skills

Results: it's a numbers game!

Changing your resume for different audiences with ChatGPT

For the next examples we have used this resume to demonstrate how it could be targeted to suit three specific audiences:

Presenting your resume to a recruiter

It's often that resumes are analyzed by recruiters who may not have the same technical understanding as candidates.

That's why it's vital to simplify your experience by making it more understandable to the general audience.

Of course, that is without losing the chance to highlight your strengths ( keywords ) and responsibilities.

ChatGPT can also do that for you. Use this prompt to make your resume more comprehensible for the general audience:

Here's my resume. I'm afraid it's too technical for a recruiter. Re-write it so it's more accessible to recruiters: [PASTE FULL RESUME TEXT]

Check out how these three resume sections have been edited:

Professional Experience

Resumes for C-level executives

In some cases, you may need to make your resume a bit more technical to impress readers (in the example below, we've referred to C-level executives).

Save time tailoring your resume by pasting this ChatGPT prompt:

Here's my resume. It's going to be reviewed by a C-Level executive and I'm afraid it's not technical to capture their attention Re-write it so it's more actionable and it shows my capabilities better: [PASTE FULL RESUME TEXT]

Pay attention to how ChatGPT re-wrote these three sections:

Impressing potential direct managers

Same person, three different resumes: can it be done in a few minutes?

Yes, it can, with ChatGPT!

Here's how the chatbot rephrased these resume sections; to be read by the candidate's potential direct manager.

Experiment with this ChatGPT writing prompt:

Here's my resume. It's going to be reviewed by the direct manager for the position and I'm afraid it doesn't communicate my value clearly enough. Re-write it so it shows how I'm the right person for the job and how I'll add to the team. [PASTE FULL RESUME TEXT]

ChatGPT’s gray areas and limitations?!

As much as you'd like to believe it, ChatGPT isn't all sunshine and rainbows.

Even though the buzz around this chatbot is massive, remember that this tool has been around for just three months. What is more, all users are currently using a demo version/ free research preview that is being further developed.

So, yes, there are some gray areas concerning this all-powerful AI.

ChatGPT can lead communication (by mirroring and assessing data), but it can't think instead of you (at least, yet).

When chatting with this large language model, remember to bring about your creativity, judgment, and details of your experience so that your resume writing experience is an effective one.

Without further ado, check out these seven ChatGPT gray areas and how you could address them.

• ChatGPT isn't perfect.

The chatbot was trained on a large dataset that includes information up to 2021. Meaning that it doesn't have the most up-to-date information regarding some roles and their specifics.

ChatGPT may also produce typos from time to time, so make sure you double-check spelling and grammar, and that the output text actually makes sense.

Remember that due to the large amounts of traffic it may crash, so always ensure that you've backed up the texts you'd like to use.

OpenAI's model is still in its infancy: imagine what it would be able to do in just a few months' time.

• Sometimes ChatGPT doesn’t understand a prompt.

Here are the sort of questions it struggles with:

• Unclear or vague ones;
• Requiring a personal opinion or subjective judgment;
• Real-time information or access to external resources;
• Complex logical or mathematical reasoning;
• Poorly formatted prompts that contain grammar errors or are written in a way that is difficult to understand.

Specifically, about that personal opinion topic, ChatGPT can't make those final judgments for you regarding which roles you should emphasize and which ones you'd leave out of your resume.

• ChatGPT can repeat the content between resume sections.

Do you have a friend who never thinks before he speaks? Well, this model is sort of like your friend, as it never self-edits what it produces.

Meaning, it can repeat similar experience bullets in different sections, etc.

This can sometimes be of benefit to you, as some recruiters tend to skim over your resume, without diving too much into the nitty-gritty details.

• If you tailor a resume from a job description, ChatGPT has the tendency to repeat the text in your resume 1:1.

When assessing your resume, recruiters expect to see a narrative that makes sense and shows that you can replicate your past successes within a new environment.

They don't need to preview their job advert, regurgitated as a generic response by an AI.

Always remember to customize ChatGPT's output text to best suit your professional story. As well, you can always ask the chatbot to regenerate a response, thus providing you with an alternative.

• ChatGPT embellishes achievements.

Yes, ChatGPT is capable of hallucinations. That is when a large language model outputs nonsense or incorrect information.

It also has the tendency to make things up as it goes to fill resume gaps.

We advise you to use ChatGPT to re-write or edit your current resume. If you start from scratch, this may lead to plenty of confusion along the way.

• If you want it to use specific/technical language, ChatGPT tends to use repeatable language.

What's more, this AI doesn't know precisely how your work has impacted the business and the context of your achievements.

Always re-write your resume after you've completed using the prompts to capture all the tiny details that make you the professional you are today.

• ChatGPT may not be ideal for non-traditional career paths.

Let's say you want to make a dramatic career change. Or that you've changed about six or seven jobs in the past two years. Perhaps, you're an entrepreneur looking to get back to the office.

When you paste your full resume, ChatGPT will shine an enormous spotlight on your "red flags" (e.g. gaps in work history or ever-changing roles).

In this case, it may be wise to use it to help you with re-writes of individual elements, rather than the whole resume.

Key Takeaways

• ChatGPT can be used as a clever instrument in resume writing, helping you to stand out and overcome your writer's block;
• The quality of ChatGPT's output depends on the quality of your input, so make sure you elaborate by providing it with all the relevant details;
• You could use ChatGPT to review and re-write (synthesize and rephrase) your resume or specific sections;
• This chatbot is amazing at targeted communication: from tailoring your resume for a specific job or audience to emails and cover letters with different tones of voice;
• Use ChatGPT to practice answering interview questions with the STAR method;
• ChatGPT is still in its infancy and has some gray areas, so don't fully rely on it to re-write your resume: instead, use your sound judgment to add a personal touch.

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Should You Use ChatGPT to Write a Resume?

by Robb Wilson

Summary .   

With its ability to write everything from essays to poetry to code, ChatGPT is changing how we think about tasks related to writing, research, and automation. Should ChatGPT write your resume?

• The answer depends on what roles you’re looking for, and how ChatGPT can aid you. For instance, if you’re a good writer or are applying to roles that require you to be good at writing — like a reporter or a content director — it’s best to avoid using generative AI. Outside roles that are specific to content writing, ChatGPT can be a useful ally as you craft your resume.
• The idea is not to rely on AI to create a final draft of your new resume or cover letter. Rather, use it as a tool to put together a strong first draft of your strengths and ideas.
• If you do decide to use ChatGPT, understand that it’s not perfect. It’s likely to make mistakes as well as have biases of its own about your job, field, or industry.
• Finally, know that AI is deeply dependent on humans. It takes significant human interaction to refine and polish the raw materials ChatGPT provides.

Generative AI tools are becoming more accessible to people around the world, and the potential use cases feel endless. With its ability to write everything from essays to poetry to code, ChatGPT, in particular, is changing how we think about tasks related to writing, research, and automation. In my work as a researcher in this space, I frequently get asked about applications of this technology from both an efficiency and an ethical standpoint. One recent example is: Should I use ChatGPT to write my resume?

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Writing a compelling resume can be a daunting task, but with the help of ChatGPT, an advanced language model, you can streamline the process and create a standout document. In this post, we'll explore how to use ChatGPT for resume writing, making the most of its capabilities to craft a professional and impactful resume.

Understanding ChatGPT's Role in Resume Writing

ChatGPT is a powerful language model trained on vast amounts of data, making it capable of understanding and generating human-like text on a wide range of topics. When it comes to resume writing, ChatGPT can assist you in various ways, from suggesting relevant keywords and phrases to providing guidance on formatting and structure.

Leveraging ChatGPT to Optimize Your Resume Content

Identifying key skills and achievements.

One of the most crucial aspects of a resume is highlighting your relevant skills and accomplishments. ChatGPT can help you identify the most appropriate keywords and phrases to effectively communicate your qualifications. Simply provide ChatGPT with your job history and responsibilities, and it can suggest tailored language to showcase your expertise.

Crafting Compelling Descriptions

Describing your work experience in a concise and compelling manner is an art. ChatGPT can assist you in crafting engaging descriptions that effectively convey your responsibilities, achievements, and the impact you've made in your previous roles. By providing context and examples, ChatGPT can help you craft narratives that resonate with potential employers.

Ensuring Consistency and Clarity

Consistency and clarity are essential in resume writing. ChatGPT can help you maintain a consistent tone and style throughout your resume, ensuring that your document reads cohesively and professionally. Additionally, it can suggest ways to clarify any ambiguous or confusing statements, making your resume more accessible to potential employers.

Utilizing ChatGPT for Resume Formatting and Structure

In addition to content optimization, ChatGPT can also assist you with the formatting and structure of your resume. By providing guidelines and best practices, ChatGPT can help you organize your information in a logical and visually appealing manner, making it easier for employers to quickly identify your qualifications and experience.

If you're interested in exploring more ways to leverage ChatGPT for professional development and career advancement, be sure to check out our other blog posts on utilizing AI for job search and career growth strategies.

In conclusion, ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can significantly enhance your resume writing process. By leveraging its language understanding and generation capabilities, you can create a compelling and optimized resume that effectively communicates your skills, experience, and achievements to potential employers. Remember to use ChatGPT as a guide and resource, while still maintaining your unique voice and personal touch in your resume.

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• Your resume is a  summary of your education and experiences . It should be focused on what is relevant to your industry. Make sure to check our  Handy Dandy Formula  for building an effective resume.
• Chronological resumes  have educational and employment history organized by date. This resume works well for students who have related experiences within their field.
• Functional resumes  focus on skill sets gained through a variety of activities, such as educational course work, clubs and organizations, as well as internships and volunteer work. This resume format works best for students lacking relevant work experience or changing careers.
• Combination resumes are a combination of the chronological resume and functional resume. It focuses on skill sets, but also lists employment history. These types of resumes are most commonly used for someone who wants to  change their career path  entirely or have  limited experience .

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Cover Letters  introduce you and your resume to prospective employers. The content of a cover letter can be broken down into three basic parts:

• Introduction: Why are you contacting this person? How did you learn about the job? Who are you? What do you know about their organization (research)?
• Body: How can you benefit them? Tell how you are an ideal match for the job. Expand on relevant education, skills, and experience to offer additional details not found on your resume.
• Conclusion: Focus on the next step: the interview! Thank the reader for their time and consideration. Request an interview to further discuss your qualifications.

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