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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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Should You Use ChatGPT to Write a Resume?

• Robb Wilson

It depends on the role you’re applying to.

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?

• RW Robb Wilson , CEO and founder of OneReach and author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Age of Invisible Machines , has spent more than two decades applying his deep understanding of user-centric design to unlocking hyper-automation. Robb built UX Magazine into the world’s largest experience design publication while simultaneously creating Effective UI, a full-service UX firm that competed with IDEO and Frog Design. Robb has also played a part in creating a wide variety of products, apps, and movies for clients like, DHL, Unilever, Expedia, Bosch, and more.

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How to use chatgpt to craft a resume for any job.

You may use ChatGPT to cook your resume, but sprinkle some humanity in before serving.

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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How to use ChatGPT to build your resume

Whether you're searching for your first job out of college or have been in the labor market for decades, there's one thing we can all agree on -- creating a resume that attracts the eye of recuiters is a tough challenge. 

How to use ChatGPT to write: Code | Excel formulas | Essays | Cover letters  

As if landing a job that aligns with your qualifications and expectations wasn't difficult enough, you also have to sum up all of your professional experiences and strengths into one application .

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That application consists of many moving parts, such as references, experiences, a cover letter, creative portfolio, and the most intimidating one for some -- the CV or resume. 

Well, now the generative AI tool ChatGPT is here to help make the resume-building process a breeze. 

How ChatGPT can help with your job application 

You can use ChatGPT to help you generate ideas and bullet points for your role from scratch, or to refine and optimize your current bullet points that might not be hitting the mark. 

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Beyond bullet points, the AI tool can help you answer questions about putting together your resume. Here is how to get started.

Side note: If you have access to Bing Chat, it could serve as a great assistant for this process because it has all the same capabilities as ChatGPT, but with access to the internet.  

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, and Canva -- will likely have a resume template already. 

Also: 5 ways to use chatbots to make your life easier 

A quick Google search for resume templates will also bring you hundreds of editable templates that you can import into your program of choice. I recommend picking one that best represents you and your needs. 

2. Sign in to ChatGPT

You will then want to visit OpenAI's ChatGPT homepage  and sign in or create an account. 

Also:  How to save a ChatGPT conversation to revisit later

ChatGPT is free to use, 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 created the results, as seen by the photo above.

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Although ChatGPT is more than capable of coming up with content that is ready to be copied and pasted into a resume, you should tweak the text so that it is personalized to your actual experiences and to make sure it doesn't look like it was written by a robot. 

At the end of the day, employers want to learn about what makes you unique. Without your assistance, the chatbot will only have access to generic prompts about your role. 

4. Use ChatGPT to revamp your own text

Whether you decided to take a stab at filling 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 own text and ask ChatGPT to make it better. 

Also: The best AI chatbots: ChatGPT and other interesting alternatives to try

For example, I asked ChatGPT, "Can you make this resume bullet sound better: I write stories about technology". Within seconds, it pushed out an elaborate bullet point that incorporated a professional tone and made that simple sentence more complex, as seen by the photo 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 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 is able to give you some answers. 

What should I put in my resume?

Ideally, you want a resume to highlight all of the accomplishments of your career. This can include any educational, professional, and leadership experiences that are meaningful to you. 

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You should also include as much detail about your unique experiences to make you stand out from other applicants. 

How to use ChatGPT

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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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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?

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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 and easy 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 Resume: Step-by-Step Guide [2024]

ChatGPT is the new buzz everyone’s talking about. One use case of this tool is to write resumes.

With the right methods and techniques, ChatGPT can help you build a perfect resume, depending on the job you’re applying for. But it’s not just generating AI content, copy-pasting it in your resume, and submitting it. It’s a lot more than that.

In this article, you’ll discover the benefits of using ChatGPT for resume writing, how to use it the right way, and the limitations of the whole process.

The Benefits of Using ChatGPT for Resume Writing

How to use chatgpt as a resume builder, tips for effectively utilizing chatgpt for resume writing, what are the limitations of using chatgpt for resume writing, wrapping up, #1. follows best resume writing practices.

When asked to act like an expert, ChatGPT follows the best practices for writing a professional resume. You can use it to learn and improve your resume writing skills.

For instance, when we asked ChatGPT to rewrite the achievements section content, it changed paragraphs to bullet points and led each bullet point with an action verb.

Why did it do so?

Resume experts suggest using an “action verb” when describing your achievements as a good practice. Likewise, ChatGPT includes necessary, quantitative information highlighting your experience and skill set. Eventually, helping you write professional resumes from scratch.

#2. Saves Time

When you’re on a job hunt, time is of utmost importance. So is having a tailored resume that fits the job description. However, writing a resume from scratch is intimidating and time-consuming.

Let’s not forget those innumerable modifications every time you apply to a new job opening. 

ChatGPT helps create professional-looking resumes within minutes. Its powerful algorithms are excellent at weaving words and providing suggestions to align your resume with the job role.

All it asks is to input the job description, add relevant information, and let AI do the heavy lifting. 

#3. Tunes Your Resume to the Opportunity

ChatGPT provides tailored resumes specific to the job description. The AI extracts relevant keywords and content from the job description you provide as input. It then crawls its vast directory to adjust the response based on the specifics of a new role.

So rather than making 100s of tweaks to your generic resume template, you can get a custom-made, highly targeted resume quickly and easily.

#4. Get Feedback to Improve Your Resume

When it comes to resumes, ChatGPT can critique everything: your writing style, grammar errors, job-specificity, and more. It’s a great AI-powered tool to get feedback and improve your resume. 

#5. ATS Friendly Writing

Over 99% of Fortune 500 companies use the Application Tracking System (ATS) regularly in their hiring process. The system is in place to scan resumes for keywords and details fitting the job description and then shortlist the most deserving candidates for the next hiring round. 

Luckily, ChatGPT can easily modify resumes for different industries, positions, and experience levels. Based on the JD, the AI adds relevant keywords to the response, ensuring that your resume can easily ethically bypass application tracking systems, of course.

However, it’s a good practice to review ChatGPT-generated content for blunders. AI is fast but not perfect. 

With the recent ChatGPT update, there are two ways to use ChatGPT to build a resume:

• Converse normally with ChatGPT and build a resume step-by-step.
• Use GPT to build a resume (only available for ChatGPT Plus or Team subscribers).

Let’s start with the first method.

👀 Note: We’re using Team-GPT to do Method 1.

Method 1. Have Normal Conversation with ChatGPT to Build a Resume

For this method, we are taking an example of a candidate looking for a s oftware engineering role in a fintech startup .

Here’s the chat link: https://chat.team-gpt.com/public/tanish/65bc606ebccdd230959c7c03   

Step 1. Define Your Career Objective

Defining career objectives isn’t just about telling ChatGPT what job you’re looking for; it’s more than that. 

You must provide AI with information like the specific industry you’re job hunting in, the type of company you want to work at (startup, scaleup, mid or large companies), and job role nuances.

When ChatGPT has all this information, it can give you a precise, relevant output.

Here’s how to approach this step:

• Be specific about the role you’re looking for. Instead of telling ChatGPT, ‘I want a job in tech,’ specify the exact designation, ‘I am looking for a role as a software engineer.’
• Mention the industry you want a job in. A software engineer in the e-commerce industry will require a different skill set than a software engineer in a fintech company.
• Mention the type of company you want to work at (startups, scaleups, enterprises) and mention any other special requirements you might be looking for.

Goal: I am looking for a mid-level software engineering position focusing on back-end development at a fintech startup. Help me construct a resume that highlights my relevant skills and experiences for this specific role.

Context: I have experience with Python and Ruby on Rails and have worked in agile development teams. 

What ChatGPT has given me, for now, is a template with my skills explained.

Let’s move on to the next step.

Step 2. Detail Your Professional Background

After defining your career objectives, educating ChatGPT about your background must be your next step.

What does this involve?

A deep dive into your skills, experience, and educational background. This will give ChatGPT a clear understanding of the relevance between the job you’re looking for and your past experience.

Here’s how to do it:

• Start by listing the skills that are most relevant to the job you’re looking for. For a software engineering role, highlight your technical abilities (programming languages, tech stack, etc) and soft skills.
• Share specifics about your professional journey so far, the projects you’ve worked on, companies you’ve worked with, challenges you faced, and more.
• Tell ChatGPT about your educational background and highlight all the achievements you have so far.

Following my goal to secure a mid-level back-end software engineering position at a fintech startup, I need advice on presenting my professional background. 

Context: I have 5 years of experience with Python and Ruby on Rails and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science. I have played a pivotal role in a cross-functional team developing a payment processing application that increases company revenue by 20%. 

Goal: How should I structure these details in my resume to highlight my suitability for the role I’m targeting?

ChatGPT has now refined the resume and made it more personalized.

Step 3. Organize Resume Structure and Content

The structure and content of your resume are crucial for making a strong first impression. It must be intuitive and highlight your strengths in a way that aligns with your job target. 

For a role in a specific sector, like a fintech startup, understanding how to present your information can significantly impact the reader’s perception.

Here are the things you must do when finalizing your resume structure and content:

• Choose between chronological, functional, or a combination resume format based on what best showcases your experiences in relation to the fintech software engineering role you’re targeting.
• Your summary statement is the first thing a recruiter will see and read. Ensure you hook the recruiter right from the start. In this case, your summary statement must resonate with the fintech sector’s needs, emphasizing your relevant skills and experiences.
• Determine what order of sections (skills, work experience, education, projects, etc.) looks best.
• Reflect on the job description and the conversation about your background. Use this to infuse your resume with keywords and phrases that are relevant to the job and industry, ensuring it passes through Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and catches the recruiter’s eye.

Based on my goal to land a mid-level back-end software engineering role in a fintech startup, and considering my 5 years of experience with Python and Ruby on Rails, plus my involvement in a significant project that boosted company revenue – how should I structure my resume? 

Specifically, how can I craft a compelling summary that highlights my expertise in fintech, and in what order should I arrange the sections to showcase my relevant skills and experiences best?

Step 4. Final Touches and Reviews

The process of refining the resume is complete. You can now export this resume and fill in all the personal information.

We’d suggest you read your resume word by word and edit it wherever you feel a human touch is required.

Submitting an AI-generated resume without reviewing it won’t get you through round one.

Method 2. Leverage GPT

👀 Note: This method is only for people subscribed to ChatGPT Plus or Teams plans.

ChatGPT has launched a store that has several GPTs in it . 

What are GPTs?

GPTs are smaller and more personalized versions of ChatGPT that ChatGPT users have trained to do very specific tasks like building resumes, learning how to cook, how to write short-form posts, and more.

You can either train a GPT on your own or use GPTs from the store that OpenAI has integrated with ChatGPT Plus and the Team interface.

To get started, you can just search for the term ‘resume’ in the top search bar and click on the GPT you want to use.

Once you click on the GPT you want to use, you see an interface similar to ChatGPT, but it will give you short pre-built prompts to get the ball rolling.

You can also write a custom prompt in the Message box, but for this example, let’s use a preexisting prompt.

I clicked on ‘Build Your Dream Resume Now.’

The GPT requested us to upload the current resume for it to analyze, so we did that.

ChatGPT analyzed the resume and then moved on to give tips for making the resume better.

It then followed up with a question: Would you like to try improving a specific section based on these suggestions, or would you prefer more detailed advice on a particular part of your resume?

The good thing about using GPT for resume-building is that it asks you questions that are needed to build a personalized, stunning resume.

Here are some tips for using ChatGPT effectively in helping you write resumes. 👇

Tip #1. Write a Great Summary

Being specific will generate better responses for you. Make sure your prompts are specific to the job role and carry impressive details about you. Highlight your skills, achievements, and other notable mentions to add weight to your resume. 

Here’s a prompt by Rob Wilson , author at Wall Street Journal, that helped him generate an impressive resume:

“Write a resume for me. I am the co-author of the first best-selling book on conversational AI, Age of Invisible Machines. I’m also the CEO and co-founder of OneReach.ai and the owner of UX Magazine. Previously, I founded EffectiveUI, one of the world’s first user-centered design agencies, which was acquired by Ogilvy/WPP. Before working in design and technology, I was a sound editor for Warner Bros.”

Tip #2. Use Role Play to Your Advantage

Ask ChatGPT to act as a recruiter or resume reviewer. This way, you train the AI to synthesize information the right way. As a result, you get detailed-oriented feedback as if coming from the experts themselves.

I want you to act as a resume expert. I’m uploading my resume with the job description, and I want your feedback on improving my resume for this particular job. Include feedback on the following points:

• What sections should I add/remove from my resume?
• How do I make my resume easy to read and scan?
• What kind of action verbs should I choose?
• Any grammatical mistakes or bad sentence fragments you can identify?

Tip #3. Use AI as an Enhancer, Not a Writer

ChatGPT can help update and modify the content in your resume so that it aligns with the job description. It can further enhance the content for better readability, consciousness, and impactfulness. 

But remember, writing complete resumes with ChatGPT and submitting them to the recruiter is against the ethics and also low-quality work. AI just can’t match human-resume writing quality as it lacks emotions and the touch of personalization and styling humans bring to the table.

I need your help modifying the experience section in my resume and aligning it with a job description. I’m providing the resume content and pasting the JD below:

Here’s the Experience section I wrote: [insert experience section from your resume]

And here’s the job ad I’m applying for: [insert job description]

Chat link: https://chat.team-gpt.com/public/tanish/65c050c2aa549cae93d5918c  

Tip #4. Always Double-Check GPT Generated Content and Suggestions

No matter how optimized your prompts are, it’s important to review and edit AI-generated responses. It’s normal for ChatGPT to hallucinate and make up things on its own, leading to incorrect information.

To prevent this from happening, leverage AI only for generating the first draft. And then edit them with personal expertise. If things go as planned, the end results can make the recruiters happy.

#1. Limited Word Input Capacity

ChatGPT has an upper limit of 2048 characters , around 300-450 words per input. Anything after that gets truncated. The problem arises for industries like social media, legal, and ed-tech, where the length of a job description can be 750 words .

This creates a significant challenge if you’re looking to personalize resumes based on the job description. Of course, you can identify and input the key details in your prompt, but that’s another task in your bucket. 

#2. Lacks Human Touch

When compared to AI, humans are any day better at sounding like humans. Even though ChatGPT is good at following the best practices for resume writing, it’s still crucial to cross-check the information AI gives for accuracy. 

Meanwhile, make sure you edit the AI content to sound as if a human wrote it. Since there’s a boom in AI-generated resumes, companies have started using AI detectors as an add-on to their Application Tracking Systems (ATS).

#3. ChatGPT Has Its Own Biases

ChatGPT is not an independent thinker. In fact, not even a thinker. 

ChatGPT responses revolve around the data it is trained upon. Sometimes, the response may unintentionally reinforce gender stereotypes. 

This raises concerns about potential bias or subjective content when using AI for resume writing.

Even ChatGPT feels this way:

That’s why it’s essential to review and modify generated content for fair and unbiased language. 

#4. Frequent Hallucinations

ChatGPT is trained on limited data. However, it’s stretched to unexpected use cases. Eventually, the AI hallucinates to generate a response to your query.

For instance, when ChatGPT is used for writing resumes, you’d find AI assuming things that are far from reality. This also increases the risk of sharing flawed information with recruiters. 

Hence, it’s recommended that you fact-check ChatGPT’s content before you submit your resume to the recruiters.

Using AI to write and edit resumes is an effective practice everyone should leverage. It fastens your resume writing process and gives you feedback on your existing resume. What’s more,  use it to draft a resume template based on the job description.

But where AI can be a boon, using it blindly can backfire badly. Remember to always review any information AI gives you and edit the resume for personalization.

With the right balance between AI and human expertise, it’s possible to build a resume recruiters would love.

About the author

Iliya Valchanov

I teach data science and AI to 1.2M students on Udemy. I'm co-founder of 365 Data Science, 3veta, and Team-GPT. My work is mostly focused on helping people and organizations adopt AI.

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How to Use ChatGPT to Write Your Resume

Struggling to create a perfect resume? Find out how ChatGPT can help you write it and land your dream job.

Key Takeaways

• ChatGPT helps you cut out manual work and summarize your resume.
• Use ChatGPT to generate outlines and flesh out important sections that will impress potential employers.
• ChatGPT Premium subscribers can use custom GPTs to analyze existing information and get more refined answers.

Standing out with your resume can be a huge challenge, but ChatGPT is a great tool to generate ideas and automate some of your editing. Learn how to write a high-quality resume with ChatGPT and how to fix common errors.

How to Write Your Resume With ChatGPT From Scratch

When writing your resume with ChatGPT, you can choose to either write everything from scratch or use a plugin. If you don't have a premium subscription, you're limited to using ChatGPT without custom GPTs. Let's start by looking at how to use the free version.

How to Draft a Resume Outline With ChatGPT

Contrary to popular belief, writing a resume in ChatGPT isn't as simple as a one-and-done prompt. You need to build on the information you add over time. Before adding customized information, it's worth asking the AI tool for a simple outline. To do this, I asked ChatGPT:

"Can you please help me write a resume? I want to land a job as a photographer at an agency."

It's also worth asking ChatGPT to keep everything to one page if that's your preference. ChatGPT provides a simple outline, including suggestions to add contact information, related skills, and a statement or summary.

ChatGPT also suggested that we add references, related educational and professional history, and links to our portfolio.

With these basics, you can spend some time thinking about how you want to customize your resume. Before you move on to the next section, consider learning about the most common ChatGPT prompting mistakes to avoid .

How to Write Your Professional Experience and Resume Summary With ChatGPT

With an overall outline of your resume, you can start filling it out step-by-step. Based on our testing, it’s best to start with your professional experience. This will make it much easier for ChatGPT to generate the rest of your resume appropriately. I gave ChatGPT this prompt:

"For Professional Experience: I have run my own Instagram page for six years about landscape photography. I have grown it to 25,000 followers and achieved 300% year-on-year growth this year. I also have my own blog which has 100,000 monthly readers about travel in the US, for which I have taken all of the pictures. As a freelancer, I have a retainer with my local newspaper and have also worked with agencies. For one agency project, my images helped contribute to a campaign generating $10 million in revenue. Can you please add this to the Professional Experience section and re-generate the draft?"

ChatGPT then fleshed out my Professional Experience section based on this information. You can ask to have your start and (if applicable) end dates added, but you can also add these manually if you'd prefer. Here's what ChatGPT gave me:

Rather helpfully, ChatGPT also adjusted my Objective Statement with the information provided:

The initial summary was quite long, so I asked ChatGPT to shorten it to 150 characters. But since that wasn't very informative, I upped the parameters to three sentences and 280 characters. The result was much better:

Besides avoiding common errors within ChatGPT, you should avoid easy-to-overlook resume mistakes when looking for a new job. Examples include putting education above experience and not customizing your resume for each application. You may also want to learn how to create a resume in Canva if you're interested in eye-catching designs.

How to Use ChatGPT to Outline Skills in Your Resume

Ultimately, your employer will want your skills to match their job opening. Make sure you showcase them in the best way possible when writing your resume with ChatGPT. I gave quite a detailed prompt here:

"Perfect. Now, let's outline my skills. I'm advanced in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, with knowledge of color grading, editing exposure, and using histograms and layers. I also have an Adobe CC All Apps subscription. Furthermore, I've taken over 200,000 photos in various conditions, including golden hour and at night—along with during the winter and summer. Soft skills include time management (I use Google Calendar to block out my entire day) and being excellent at communicating with other people. My visual storytelling skills are evident in my 1,000+ blog posts that clearly highlight the full story of each journey I take. I also know how to use Fujifilm, Nikon, Sony, and Canon mirrorless cameras."

ChatGPT then gave me a relatively detailed summary of the skills I asked it to showcase:

I felt like these needed some more information, so I then asked ChatGPT:

"I think we need to add a bit more. Let's also talk about my creative skills, and move Visual Storytelling into that section. I know all about the exposure triangle and experimenting with different forms of lighting, along with using aperture priority, manual, and shutter priority modes."

The edited section was much better and outlined the creative skills I wanted to showcase in further detail (along with putting these in a separate area).

ChatGPT also included the soft skills section that was in the first draft:

Once you've got the information you need, you can add these to your resume and tweak them further if you feel like doing so is necessary. Either way, it's important to proofread everything and make sure your resume is accurate before you send it to potential employers.

How to Add Your Educational History to Your Resume With ChatGPT

While employers care more about your work and project experience than your education, the skills you pick up while studying are still worth adding. To start, I gave ChatGPT this prompt:

"Great, let's now move on to educational experience. I studied journalism at university, during which I did several multimedia programs and an optional photojournalism module. I learned how to tell stories through pictures and what captivates audiences, along with the best photographic practices and how to maintain integrity. At university, I also freelanced for companies in the local area and founded my own media team for the university's basketball team."

ChatGPT gave me the following after I asked it to also include course dates and locations, which was pretty good:

If you're specifically going for a job in the tech space, consider checking out the best resume templates for tech professionals .

How to Write a Resume With ChatGPT Using a Custom GPT

If you use ChatGPT premium, you can create a resume using a custom GPT. The prompts from the previous sections should also work when using a custom GPT. However, if you already have a resume, you can upload it to get feedback and improve from there. Here's how to do so:

• Upload a PDF version of your resume.

ChatGPT can help you customize your resume and save hours of time that you'd otherwise spend thinking about what to add. Use the tool to make your writing more concise and summarize the most important parts of your work-related experience. You can also analyze existing resumes if you already have an existing framework. Make sure that you proofread and customize everything to your own needs before you start applying for jobs.

Can ChatGPT Write Your Resume? 10+ Prompts You Can Test Right Now

In This Guide:

Writing your resume with chatgpt.

ChatGPT resume writing prompts

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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How to Write Your Resume With ChatGPT: Top Tips and Prompts

As technology continues to advance and become part of our daily lives, you’re likely aware of what AI is and what it can do.

Whether it’s an answer to a trivia question, travel plans, or a recipe, people turn to AI, especially ChatGPT.

But as a job applicant, you might be asking yourself, “How do I ask ChatGPT to improve my resume? ” 

Luckily, there are ways to use AI tools to make your resume stand out , and it will take much less time than if you did it without any help from ChatGPT.

You may even want to use AI to write your resume from scratch .

However, it’s not that simple to get our robotic friend to throw out a job-winning resume for you in minutes. To help you understand how to use ChatGPT to create your resume, this article will cover :

• What ChatGPT is and what it can do
• The benefits of using AI for resume writing
• Using ChatGPT to tailor your resume
• Creating a resume for tech positions
• ChatGPT resume prompts to improve your application quickly

We’ll also go over how to use our free AI-powered resume builder with ChatGPT to create the perfect application . 

Find out how to use our tools and AI to create the perfect resume for your application!

What Is ChatGPT and Can It Write Resumes? 

AI is all around us, and you may not have even realized it. For example, facial recognition, social media, and even Google searches use AI technology. 

ChatGPT is one of the most popular online tools which uses AI. 

The tool created by OpenAI uses artificial technology to generate responses to whatever we ask or tell it. This means you can quickly be given travel tips, summaries of books, and more in an instant. 

With this technology, you can take care of a lot of tasks in minutes.

Why You Should Use ChatGPT for Resumes

Crafting a standout resume is crucial in today’s competitive job market, and using tools like ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini can make that task much easier and more effective . 

Using the latest AI technology, you can develop key sections of your resume in minutes . 

Here’s how ChatGPT can revolutionize your resume-writing process:

• Personalized content : Based on your input, ChatGPT can generate detailed sections like your experience and achievement sections . 
• Research assistance : ChatGPT and other AI tools can research the company and role you’re applying for, ensuring your resume aligns with the employer’s needs and values. 
• Personalized automation : You can begin writing with ChatGPT-generated ideas and text, and then tweak them to reflect your voice and style using our resume editor.
• Efficiency and inspiration : Staring at a blank page can be overwhelming. ChatGPT offers prompts and suggestions that kick-start the writing process, saving time and sparking ideas for presenting your experiences.

You can also use it for other purposes, such as receiving suggestions to enhance your LinkedIn profile, ensuring it’s optimized for visibility, and appealing to recruiters. 

It’s even possible to generate mock interview questions with AI based on the job you’re applying for and practice before meeting with the recruiter.

Applying AI strategies for resume writing means you’re quickly adapting your application and coming up with new ideas to draft a convincing professional journey .

Top 5 ChatGPT Resume Prompts for a Job Search

To get the most out of ChatGPT, you must write a detailed prompt, which is an instruction you give the generator . 

Knowing which resume prompts are best when creating your application is critical. With the right instructions, you’ll guarantee that all your most important qualifications are mentioned , and you’ll take much less time. 

Here are 5 prompts you should always use when making your resume and preparing to send in your application:

• Summarize my career : “Generate a concise, professional summary that highlights my top achievements and skills based on my work history.”
• Tailoring to job description : “Based on this job description, suggest specific skills and experiences from my background that I should emphasize.”
• Showcase achievements : “Using my work history, create bullet points showcasing my achievements in the role of [ROLE]with quantifiable results. Here are the key achievements I want to include:”
• Skill set : “Identify and list additional skills relevant to [POSITON] that I may not have considered, based on my resume.”
• Professional Development: “Outline any professional development courses or certifications I’ve completed that are relevant to [POSITION], including the skills acquired or enhanced through these activities.”

You can also write a cover letter using ChatGPT with the correct prompts.

Once you’ve included your work history and data, you can start using your prompts. 

Here’s an example with a response:

Generate a concise, professional summary that highlights my top achievements and skills based on my work history.

“Experienced software engineer with over 10 years in developing scalable web applications and leading tech teams. Expert in Java, Python, and cloud technologies, with a proven ability to increase system efficiency by 40%. Recognized for innovative solutions in automation and continuous integration processes.”

Providing these instructions makes the entire process much easier and gets the job done faster .

How to Use ChatGPT for Tech Jobs

The tech industry and positions in the field are set to continue growing over the next decade . That means if you work as a software engineer, full stack developer , or another IT position, a well-crafted resume will help you land a better role . 

Use AI if you want one of the top IT positions, as ChatGPT can help you:

• Tailor your resume to spotlight technical skills and projects, making it attractive to tech recruiters.
• Concisely describe your tech projects, showcasing your direct involvement and expertise.
• Quantify your contributions, such as efficiency gains or cost reductions, offering tangible proof of your impact.
• Highlight ongoing learning and certifications relevant to tech advancements with ChatGPT’s assistance.

By using ChatGPT, you’ll be able to gather ideas to make sure you can create a resume that hits the mark with tech employers .

Limitations or Drawbacks of Using AI in Resume Writing

However, while ChatGPT offers a new approach to resume writing, it’s important to recognize its limitations . Here are a couple of points to consider:

Need for customization 

If used incorrectly, AI-generated resumes can sometimes lack the personal touch that defines your application. It’s essential to remember to make your resume personal and use resume templates to create a customized outline. 

Too much ChatGPT-generated text

Experienced recruiters can tell you’re relying too much on AI if you’re not careful, and nearly 40% think that it’s a deal-breaker . Our free resume builder can help make the text more natural and fluid .

How to Use ChatGPT as a Resume Writer

Creating a standout resume with ChatGPT is straightforward. By following the steps below, you should be able to simplify the entire resume writing process :

• Identify what you need : Start by pinpointing what you need help with, whether crafting from scratch or improving your existing content.
• Gather your information : List your work history, skills, achievements, and any job postings you’re targeting.
• Access ChatGPT : Log onto ChatGPT to ask the AI tool to write the different sections of your resume, starting with your resume summary .
• Review the AI-generated content : Go through the AI’s suggestions, picking out the most compelling and relevant pieces for your resume.
• Customize the content : Add your personal touch to the AI-generated content, ensuring it reflects your unique voice and journey.
• Finalize your resume : Make any necessary adjustments to layout and formatting, ensuring your resume is professional and polished.

Once you’ve finished creating content with ChatGPT, you can import it into our free resume builder to fine-tune and finalize your document .

By following these steps, you’ll create an application that stands out and represents your qualifications. 

By integrating AI tools like ChatGPT into every phase of your job search, you’re not trying harder, you’re trying smarter!

Why Take Advantage of Our AI-Powered Resume Builder?

Pairing ChatGPT with a resume builder is a great idea to get the most out of it as a tool for creating a new resume. 

Our AI-powered editor focuses on adding what employers want to see in your job application, such as:

• Industry keywords
• Achievements and skills
• Unique qualifications

By keeping these elements in mind and using both ChatGPT and our builder, you can take advantage of the following benefits :

• Less time and effort : You can easily organize your experiences into a story, significantly reducing the time you’d spend writing and formatting your resume.
• Expert guidance : Our tool provides AI-generated phrases that showcase your skills , experience, and achievements.
• ATS optimized : Our builder is designed with the Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) in mind, ensuring your resume makes it through automated screenings.
• Resume customization : You can adjust colors, fonts, and layouts to create a resume that matches your field and helps you stand out.
• Cost-effective job hunting : Using our free AI resume tools means you can invest in your future without breaking the bank.

Key Points 

Not everyone is a fan of AI, but embracing ChatGPT in your job search strategy offers a clear path to success . 

Keeping the following in mind will ensure that you use AI correctly when applying for work:

• AI can help generate personalized resumes that stand out to employers.
• AI tools can navigate job boards and match you with ideal positions.
• ChatGPT provides support, from optimizing LinkedIn profiles to interview prep.
• Detailed prompts make your experience and qualifications text easier and faster

While ChatGPT can do all of this, it’s essential to pair it with our free AI builder to guarantee your application is optimized and ready to go!

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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 Teal's  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 for your 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.

Can I use ChatGPT to write my 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 for resume writing

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 achievements 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 the free Achievement Assistant tool within the AI 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 achievements.
• Make sure to carefully proofread and edit the bullet point achievement, tweaking it as needed using the Achievement 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 achievements that make sense for the job you're applying to.

Use Teal's new AI functionality to create tailored achievements

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

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 achievements 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 AI Resume Builder , 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. 

@teal_hq Your professional summary is your opportunity to talk about your career as a whole. Not sure what to write there? Use the AI feature in your Resume Builder to do the summarizing for you. SAVE. YOURSELF. TIME. #chatgpt #chatgpt3 #jobsearch #resumetips #careertok #resume #jobseeker ♬ She Share Story (for Vlog) - 山口夕依

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 AI 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. 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 achievements 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 job seekers

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 achievements with metrics based on the job responsibilities below.
• Draft five persuasive resume achievements 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.

Here's what happened when we asked ChatGPT to write us a resume—and what we needed to fix before we'd submit it.

@teal_hq We asked ChatGPT to write us a resume and it was pretty solid—but here are the 3 things we’d change before submitting it for a job application. #chatgpt #chatgpt3 #careertok #jobsearchtips #jobsearchstruggles #jobsearchhelp #resumetips #resumetok #chatgptai ♬ Aesthetic - Tollan Kim

5 best practices on using ChatGPT for resumes

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.

Start leveraging ChatGPT 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 functionality is already integrated with ChatGPT, offering a range of tools to optimize your resume, including summary and achievement 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

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 Teal  AI 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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Should You Use ChatGPT to Write Your Resume?

AI software like ChatGPT has undeniably made its mark in many areas of work and higher education. Its continuous advancements have led professionals and students to use it to draft emails, articles, social posts, essays, and papers—albeit with varying degrees of success. Naturally, you might be wondering whether ChatGPT is capable of writing your resume. The short answer is yes, ChatGPT can indeed draft a resume. However, just because something can be done doesn’t necessarily mean it should be done.

While it's true that ChatGPT is easily accessible (a simple email registration gets you started), very budget-friendly (the paid version is $20/month), incredibly fast (it generates content in seconds), and adept at beating  ATS systems , there are some undeniable cons to using the AI software to write your resume, such as these four below.

1. Lack of Human Expertise and Perspective

When instructing ChatGPT to compose your resume, it scours the web for guidance. It looks for what you’re asking for, often offering up content from “sample” resumes that may seem similar to yours but are very different. This process may lead to outdated information being included in your resume. On the other hand, if you work with a professional (human) resume writer, you benefit from someone who is well-informed and stays abreast of the latest best practices in resume writing. This expertise includes strategies to navigate tracking systems, a deep understanding of requirements specific to various industries, key terms essential for success, and more.

2. Lack of Personalization and Customization

One fundamental aspect of crafting a resume is tailoring it to showcase your strengths and align with the specific requirements of the job. While ChatGPT can generate this quickly, it doesn’t capture a candidate’s individuality effectively. Regardless of the prompts, the information that comes back is not dynamic, nor does it offer any authenticity. It is very generic. Hiring managers have become increasingly skilled at detecting language typical of AI-generated resumes—some hiring managers can spot AI-generated resumes immediately.

3. Challenges with Formatting and Design

ChatGPT can rapidly produce written content, but there's more to a resume than words on a page. An appealing layout is key for effective communication, alongside maintaining a well-structured format. Nicely crafted formats can help keep the readers focused on areas you want to be highlighted. ChatGPT may struggle with determining the way to organize information and lacks awareness of design principles when it comes to composing resumes.

4. Complex Prompts Are Required for Accurate Details

The effectiveness of ChatGPT relies heavily on the prompts it receives. It may even fabricate details to compensate for missing information. This could lead to misinformation about your work history, skills, accomplishments, and more if vague prompts are used. Consequently, spending time crafting precise prompts for an accurate resume may counteract the efficiency of AI language tools in generating content.

The Bottom Line

The capabilities of AI tools like ChatGPT are undeniably impressive. However, it’s crucial to view them as tools rather than substitutes. Just as you wouldn't use a spoon to drive a nail into a wall but use a hammer instead, ChatGPT can be valuable but not ideal for crafting resumes. If you choose to DIY your resume, as opposed to getting professional help, you might want to use AI to create an outline, but then use your own experiences to fill in the blanks.

While there are some perceived benefits like affordability, efficiency, and convenience, relying on ChatGPT to create your resume could potentially jeopardize your chances of landing your dream job. If you need help, opting for a professional resume writing service offers the advantage of expertise and insights, personalized attention to highlight your unique talents, and a polished and impactful layout—all without any guesswork or stress involved.

Erin Kennedy, MCD, NCOPE, CMRW, CERW, CEMC, CRW, CPRW, is a Certified Master & Executive Resume Writer and the President of Professional Resume Services, Inc. (PRS), home to some of the best resume writers on the planet. PRS was voted “Forbes Top 100 Career Websites” and “Top Followed on LinkedIn” two years in a row from Jobscan. She is also a LinkedIn “Top Voice” and publishes posts on the platform regularly. She has been quoted in Forbes.com, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Mashable, and more. 

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7 Best ChatGPT Prompts To Help You Write Your Resume

Looking for a job? You’re going to want to perfect your resume. The hard thing is that writing a resume is time-consuming, and it seems like tips for writing a resume are always changing. This is where ChatGPT can be of service.

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Experts told GOBankingRates that there are certain prompts that can help craft your resume into something that will catch recruiters’ eyes. Here are the top prompts for ChatGPT to help you write your resume. 

Ask ChatGPT To Create a Custom Resume for a Specific Job

The more specific a resume is, the better. Recruiters are looking to see that you have the exact skills that fulfill the job they’re hiring for.

Career expert Michael Gardon says there’s a simple method to create a specified resume using ChatGPT. “Here is the best prompt: ask ChatGPT to ‘please personalize my resume for [this job] at [this company]. Here is the job description [paste it]. Here is my resume [paste resume],'” Gardon advised.

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Get Keywords Based on the Job Description

The truth is most recruiters — or systems they use — are looking for keywords to separate your resume from those that aren’t qualified. ChatGPT can help you find those keywords.

“You can share a job posting and ask [ChatGPT] to provide you with a list of keywords or skills from the job description,” said Laci Baker, a career advisor at University of Phoenix . “You can then share your resume with [ChatGPT] and ask if all those keywords and skills are present on your resume, which can help with ensuring you are tailoring your resume to the job description.”

Ask ChatGPT To Follow a Resume Template

Found a resume template you like online? Phil Siegel, the founder of AI nonprofit CAPTRS , says you can submit that to ChatGPT and ask for a similar resume based on your experience.

“Start from a template you like (they are all over the web) and give ChatGPT some detailed information about you. Ask it to create a resume using the format and your data. The advantage is it will give a more detailed resume and it can be done fairly quickly,” Siegel said.

Use Your Experience To Create a Professional Summary

Writing the professional summary at the top of your resume can be challenging. It’s hard to know how to speak about your personal experience in a way that hiring managers will gravitate toward.

Baker suggests typing elements of your past job experience into ChatGPT and asking it to write a professional summary. “You can share your past experiences and a target role you are hoping to apply to, and [ChatGPT] can give you a career summary that you can then edit and make your own,” Baker said.

Use ChatGPT as a Career Expert

Siegel says there is a way you can “chat” with ChatGPT that can help it create a resume for you. “‘Pretend’ ChatGPT is a friendly expert and hold a conversation with it about creating your resume. Tell it you’re creating a resume for a job role and ask it to ask you about the most important information to build a strong resume.”

Siegel notes this will take more time than other prompts but will help create a stronger and more focused resume that’s tailored to your strengths.

Change the Tone of Your Resume

Sometimes you know what you want to say, but you’re not sure how to say it in a professional tone. ChatGPT can help tailor your wording to fit what a recruiter is looking for. “[ChatGPT] can rewrite resume elements to be more focused and more formal if those are elements you need assistance with,” Baker said.

You can even prompt ChatGPT to make your resume sound more impressive with this prompt from Juliet Dreamhunter, the founder of Juliety : “Here is the experience section of my resume. Rewrite it in bullet points and use powerful action verbs to highlight my expertise and achievements. Make it sound more impressive and professional.”

Reduce the Length of Your Resume

Generally speaking, you want your resume to be 1-2 pages. If your resume is longer, ChatGPT can help reduce it. “You can ask [ChatGPT] to take the content you already have and rewrite it to reduce the length to 2 pages,” Baker said.

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How To Use ChatGPT Effectively?

Powered by OpenAI’s GPT model, ChatGPT is a conversational AI chatbot taking the world by storm. This guide will help you get started and show you how to use ChatGPT effectively.

ChatGPT is the most popular generative AI chatbot.

Since its revolutionary rollout in late 2022, the AI tool has changed how we work, learn, and perform certain tasks. Whether you want to generate essays, emails, code, cover letters, or an art image, ChatGPT can enhance that process.

In this post, we’ll explore how to use ChatGPT effectively and get the most out of it!

Getting Started with ChatGPT

To use ChatGPT, you don't need to create an account on the OpenAI website.

Simply open your favorite web browser, go to the OpenAI ChatGPT URL , and start conversing with the chatbot.

But it's helpful to create an account so you can save/access previous conversations and upgrade to the ChatGPT Plus plan.

To create a free OpenAI account to use ChatGPT, follow the steps below:

• Go to the OpenAI website .
• Hit the Sign Up button.
• You need a valid email address and password to sign up. Alternatively, you can register for ChatGPT using your existing Google or Microsoft account.

• After entering your email address, do a phone verification to confirm that you're human.
• Once you complete your verification, you’re now signed in and can access ChatGPT through your user account.

Got an OpenAI account already? You can skip the registration steps and hit the Login button to start using the AI chatbot.

ChatGPT comes with four subscription tiers.

By default, the free version of ChatGPT runs on the basic GPT-3.5 AI model.

To access the advanced GPT-4 model along with internet browsing and text-to-image features, you’ll need to upgrade to the ChatGPT Plus, Teams, or Enterprise subscription plans.

How to use ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is a conversational AI chatbot.

You use the tool by feeding the engine some text instructions called a PROMPT and the tool returns an output.

Simply type a prompt in the box provided by the chatbot and click the Send Message icon. To get a solid response from ChatGPT, ensure your prompt is clear, detailed, and has enough context. After entering your prompt, ChatGPT will generate a response in seconds.

For a test, I asked ChatGPT to write a minute-long Ad copy for Monica, our fast, all-in-one AI Assistant.

And here’s its response.

One good thing about this chatbot is that it recalls the previous conversations you’re having with it when logged in.

This means you can ask follow-up questions based on previous prompts and it’ll generate relevant answers. Plus, you can even modify a response without starting from scratch.

Once ChatGPT spits out a response, you have several options. With each of the icons appearing below, you can:

• Copy Response —Love ChatGPT's output? You can click the clipboard icon under the response to copy it and paste it somewhere else.
• Regenerate Response —If the generated response doesn’t cut it for you, hit the Regenerate icon to run the prompt again. This only works with the most recent response.
• Share Response —You can share entire ChatGPT responses with your friends, family, or colleagues by using the Share icon. No need to screenshot your conversation. Upon clicking the share icon, you’ll generate a unique URL for that conversation you can share with others.
• Show Dislike —If you don’t like a particular response from the AI chatbot, you can express your displeasure by hitting the Dislike icon. This serves as feedback to the engine to learn from and improve.

It is important to know that GPT-3.5, which powers the free version of ChatGPT, has no internet browsing feature.

To automatically connect to the internet, get real-time, current information in your answers, and create custom GPTs, you need to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus.

How to use ChatGPT to Write a Cover Letter?

Feeling stuck or lost for ideas on getting together a job-winning cover letter?

ChatGPT can assist you in crafting a one-page letter that gets you interviews.

Go to the ChatGPT's website and log in to your account with your user credentials. Copy and paste the job description of the role and add a prompt asking the tool to generate a cover letter for that role. This would ensure your cover letter is tailored to the exact role you're applying for.

In the prompt, ensure you add a bit of your work experience and career details so the engine has enough context to generate a befitting cover letter.

For example, your prompt could be something like this:

"I want you to act as a cover letter writer. Write me a cover letter for the position of [role title] at [company name]. Use professional language and tone, but at the same time keep this cover letter compact. Follow some best industry practices. This is the job description below: [paste in the job requirements]. And here’s my resume: [paste in your whole work experience, strengths, career highlights, achievements, etc.]"

There’s no limit to how specific or contextual you can be with your prompts to get better output. No hard rules.

Once the tool spits out a cover letter, tweak and edit thoroughly. Don’t use the response verbatim. Plus, you can even ask ChatGPT to change or refine a specific part of the cover letter.

How to use ChatGPT to Write or Improve a Resume?

Whether personal statement or work experiences, ChatGPT can piece together the different parts of your professional career resume.

While building your resume in any third-party tool, you can open up the chatbot and ask it to generate a compelling professional summary.

For example, use the prompt: "I’m working on my career resume for my role as a [role title]. Can you write a short, compelling professional resume summary about a [role in detail] interested in [field of interest]?

The chatbot will send back a response in seconds.

Don’t forget to tweak the response so it makes sense, sounds more nicely, and is personalized to your real experiences.

Apart from using ChatGPT while building your resume, you can also use it to improve an existing resume.

Simply copy and paste the text on your resume and ask ChatGPT to revamp or make it better.

For example, here’s a prompt you can use: “Can you read this resume and revamp the work experience section? Make it sound more detailed and convincing and include [additional details].”

Within seconds, you’ll get an output that’s better polished and refined with the requested changes.

How to use ChatGPT to Write an Essay?

If writer's block is holding you back from completing your college essay or a writing task, ChatGPT can help you out.

Writing an essay

To write an essay, simply go to ChatGPT, paste your essay topic, and ask the chatbot to generate an essay from scratch.

Don’t forget to indicate the desired length and other necessary contextual details. For example, ask the chatbot for help using this prompt: “Can you write a coherent six-paragraph essay with at least 300 words on the topic: [essay title]"

In a short time, the chatbot will produce an output according to the instructions received. You can use the output as a guide or first draft to create your original writing.

Be careful; Submitting AI content directly as your essay is never a good practice. Your work will be flagged as plagiarized and will not be accepted.

Plus, ChatGPT tends to hallucinate a lot—producing convincing but factually incorrect statements in its output. As a result, ensure you proofread the output and remove any details that have been artificially invented.

Editing your essay

In addition, ChatGPT can also help you edit your essay.

After you’ve written or generated an essay, use ChatGPT's capabilities to edit it for you. Simply paste the essay text into the chatbot and ask it to edit it. Be specific when feeding the tool with editing instructions.

For example: “ Can you edit this essay for sentence structure, spelling, grammar, flow, article tone, and more.”

Then, paste the text of your essay into the chatbot and ChatGPT will respond with a thoroughly edited version of the essay.

Apart from basic grammar and spelling checks, the tool will fix specific parts of the essay for clarity and style.

How to get ChatGPT to Generate images?

ChatGPT isn't limited to producing text only. You can also generate AI images with the tool.

OpenAI has integrated DALL·E 3 , the latest iteration of its text-to-image AI model, with ChatGPT. However, this functionality is only available for Plus, Teams, and Enterprise subscribers.

You can now feed ChatGPT with an art idea prompt and the tool will generate AI images according to the text instructions.

Don't know how to craft descriptive prompts to get your desired output? No worries! You can take advantage of numerous AI art prompt generators and get better inspiration.

It is worth noting that while using the DALL·E model inside ChatGPT, you don’t have to purchase separate image generation credits. But using the model as a standalone tool, you’ll have to buy credits.

How to use ChatGPT to Write Code?

Generative AI technology is NOT able to replace programmers yet. But it can write useful code.

The GPT model is trained on code around the web and can generate code snippets in popular programming languages such as JavaScript, Python, C#, PHP, and Java.

For example, I asked the chatbot to generate some boilerplate code using HTML.

In seconds, ChatGPT will generate some code you can copy and paste into your IDE or development environment. Also, the tool will explain the code a bit, which is helpful if you’re new to the language.

How to use ChatGPT to Create Summaries for You?

If you’re thinking of how to get ChatGPT to summarize an article, book, or research paper, here’s how to go about that.

First, find the article, book, or research paper you want to summarize and copy the text.

Go to the ChatGPT, write “TLDR:” in the box, and paste the article you want summarized after. TLDR means for too long, didn't read. This tells ChatGPT to summarize the article you are pasting below.

Otherwise, you can use the prompt 'Can you summarize this article’ and then paste the text. Finally, hit the 'Enter icon.

In seconds, ChatGPT will produce a summarized version of the article. If you're not fine with the summary, you can hit the regenerate icon to run the prompt again.

Try Monica, our all-in-one ChatGPT assistant

If you’re looking for a solid AI assistant built on several advanced AI models and with extra functionalities to replace ChatGPT , Monica is the right option for you.

Monica is an intuitive all-in-one ChatGPT assistant that helps you chat, search, write, summarize articles, translate languages, generate images, and perform more tasks.

Going for Monica over ChatGPT gives you direct advantages. You’ll get to explore diverse AI models (GPT-4, Claude, Mistral & more) for unique tasks, manage everything seamlessly in one central platform, and use personalized bots for complex tasks.

What Makes Monica Unique?

Monica comes stacked with extra functionalities that are missing while using ChatGPT alone.

AI Chatbot Marketplace & Hub

Unlike ChatGPT which is built only on the GPT model, Monica is powered by several well-known LLMs including GPT-4, Claude 3 Opus, Gemini, and Miscial. This offers you diverse AI solutions and you can easily transition among various chatbots, depending on the task or needs at hand.

Cross-Platform Availability

Monica can be used through different platforms.

The AI tool is available as a mobile app on iOS and Android, a desktop app on Windows and Mac, and a browser extension on Chrome and Edge. This provides cross-platform convenience and allows you to interact with any feature on any device, and at any time.

Smart, Personalized AI Bots

Monica does more in solving your problems and offering smart personalized services.

Thanks to our Prompt and Bots marketplace, you get enhanced extensive customization choices in the chatbot capabilities. With custom bots, you can tailor your interaction experience to personal needs by integrating your preferred language, and conversation style, enabling web access, AI image generation model, and more.

Improved Context

Like ChatGPT, Monica lets you interact with the underlying model and perform functions through text, documents, images, and voice. You can also interact with the web and URLs for accurate and deeper generative solutions. This provides better contextual understanding and response capabilities.

Final Words

If you've ​​been trying to learn how to use ChatGPT effectively, this post is all you need. Powered by OpenAI’s GPT models, the incredibly powerful chatbot can assist you with various tasks in work, school, and business.

However, if ChatGPT doesn't solely cut it for you and you’re serious about taking AI assistance to the next level, take our Monica AI assistant for a spin.

To get started, sign up for a FREE Monica account today!

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Unlocking the Power of ChatGPT: Your AI-Powered Personal Assistant

Spencer Chen

What Is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is like having a smart robot at your fingertips. Trained on a massive 45-terabyte dataset of internet text, it’s one of the largest language models ever created. But what sets it apart? Here are the top 3 aspects that easily come to my mind, when I think of it:

• Human-Like Writing : ChatGPT mimics human language, making interactions feel natural and engaging.
• Contextual Understanding : It pays attention to different parts of your input, generating coherent and context-aware responses.
• Versatility : From chatbots to personal assistants, ChatGPT adapts to various tasks.

How was ChatGPT created?

OpenAI initially introduced ChatGPT as a "research preview," quietly rolling it out to the public without much promotion. To their astonishment, the platform swiftly gained viral traction, catching even the OpenAI team off guard. Sandhini Agarwal, a researcher at OpenAI, characterizes it as a glimpse into a refined iteration of existing technology, strategically aimed at soliciting feedback from users. The platform underwent training using reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), where human evaluators assessed responses based on criteria such as truthfulness and helpfulness. OpenAI conducted extensive testing and red teaming to identify and mitigate potential risks and safety concerns prior to its public debut.

ChatGPT represents a fine-tuned version of Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) 3.5, a series of large language models introduced by OpenAI months prior to the chatbot's release. The inception of the GPT series marked a pivotal moment in artificial intelligence and natural language processing, showcasing the potential of transformer architecture and unsupervised learning.

GPT-4, OpenAI's latest advancement in language models, offers improved safety measures and enhanced performance. This cutting-edge, multimodal system, capable of processing both text and image inputs, demonstrates human-level proficiency across various professional and academic benchmarks. Notably, GPT-4 showcases heightened reliability, creativity, and collaboration, along with an increased capacity to comprehend nuanced instructions , setting it apart from its predecessor, GPT-3. (Moreover, the size disparity between the two models is evident, with GPT-4 rumored to boast an impressive 1 trillion parameters compared to GPT-3's already remarkable 175 billion parameters.

How can I use ChatGPT effectively?

Whether you’re a student, faculty or staff member, there’s always a powerful assistant by your side. The biggest tip that is shared by the four scenarios below, is the custom instructions. ChatGPT can answer, in the form of whatever you want it to be. You can tell ChatGPT what it is you want it to know, and how you would like it to respond, and it will do so accordingly!

ChatGPT as your Study Buddy and Research Assistant

• ChatGPT can create personalized study plans based on your syllabus and preferences.
• Need information for a project? it digs through vast resources and provides relevant insights.
• One important tip would be to pay attention to the source material. Although ChatGPT is a powerful tool to help you get started with studying, it should not be the primary source of where you get your information. Always consult with the professor or course material for a more accurate view.

Travel Planner Extraordinaire

• Planning a getaway? ChatGPT organizes travel details, suggests attractions, and even refines restaurant choices.
• As an example, if you want to grasp local insights, simply ask for the top brunch spots in your area, and ChatGPT will deliver concise recommendations.

Content Creation and Review

• ChatGPT excels in writing assistance: Whether it’s essays, articles, or creative pieces, you’ll not only find the right words, but will have your work reviewed for clarity, grammar, and coherence.

Interview Prep and Career Guidance

• Practice with ChatGPT—it simulates interview scenarios and provides feedback.
• Ask ChatGPT about job trends, industry advice, or resume tips!

So, next time you interact with ChatGPT, remember—it’s not just a chatbot; it’s your AI-powered companion, ready to make your life easier, smarter, and more exciting.

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