ChatGPT For Job Seekers: Use AI Chatbot At Various Hiring Stages

Whether you are a fresher or an experienced professional, the process of job hunting is tedious and depressing. You get maybe one call from a recruiter after applying at 10-15 places - that too if you are lucky. In such circumstances, we wish we had a companion which could help us in the hiring process. ChatGPT for job seekers is the answer to your prayers.

While ChatGPT has become a source of fear among working professionals, it can help job seekers get a job. However, paradoxical it sounds, it is true. In this article, we will show you how you can use ChatGPT to get the job of your dreams. You no longer have to miss out on opportunities. So, prepare yourself for a career-transforming journey.

ChatGPT for Job Search

The job search portals are daunting places a lot of times. We are sure many of you feel like you are stuck in a labyrinth of so many options. It is often difficult to decide how to start the job search process.

For instance, look at this job section on Unstop. It asks you to choose various options before you begin the job search process, such as type of job, eligibility, category, location, etc.

Unstop's job portal is still organized and provides you with the least hassle because of which half a million Indian job seekers use it. It offers all the parameters you may want to choose while looking for a job.

But what about other job search portals in the market? You have to be very smart to find desirable jobs on those portals. Choosing one irrelevant filter can make the process of job hunting a headache.

Another issue that crops up when you are looking for a job is that job listings are posted on different job portals. For instance, a certain job portal may not have particular job openings. Additionally, to apply for such job openings, you have to create accounts on innumerable job portals and keep a tab on the jobs posted there. Phew!

Here, you can take a little help from ChatGPT. Below is an example of how you use a simple prompt and ChatGPT will cumulate results from various job portals to make the job-hunting process easier.

In the above image, you can see, you just need to provide basic variables, such as type of job, experience, location, etc. It provides you with a job opening with respect to the parameters.

Moreover, it gives the links to the job portals where those are listed. For instance, if you want to apply for a job at Infosys, you can click on the hyperlinked number in the square brackets. As you can see at the bottom left corner of the image, the job is listed on naukri.com.

In this way, ChatGPT is less-time consuming and hassle-free. Just a well-worded query reduced hours of work into a second of job. It gives you a positive start to your journey starting new professional journey.

ChatGPT for Researching a Company

The next step after you narrow down the list of places you want to apply to is researching the company. You possibly be spending some of the most crucial months and (possibly) years in that company, right? So, don't you want to know whether the company provides good employee benefits? Apart from this, you should also know whether the value system of the company aligns with your value system.

In this way, job seekers are burdened with the process of KYC - Know Your Company. It's again a time-consuming job. You have to do several online and offline to know about the culture and performance of the company you want to apply for.

You can use ChatGPT in the following manner:

All you have to do is ask ChatGPT to provide information about the company of your choice and it will do the job.

ChatGPT for Resume and Cover Letter Writing

The next step in the job-hunting process comes writing a resume and a cover letter.

Resumes

The importance of writing a good resume can be understood from the fact that a company gets an average of 300-500 resumes in a day when they post a job. You read it correctly.

The HR gives not more than 10 seconds to review your resume. It takes a blink to determine whether you suit the job description or not!

However, much before the resumes reach HR, they are screened by an automated system called Applicant Tracking System (ATS). The ATS uses its algorithm to see whether your resume has the needed education qualification, skills, and work experience. So, if you miss writing about that, most probably the system would reject your resume.

This is the reason many people take professional help and pay to have their resumes written. But ChatGPT can do this work for free.

You simply need to tell the chatbot basic details and it will provide you pointers to build upon.

You can use the following ChatGPT prompt:

"provide a resume for a [B. Tech] graduate from [IIT Delhi] who is skilled in [computer science and data analytics] and has an experience of [1 year]"

(The text in brackets are variables. You can add your details there.)

This way you would not miss out on the keywords and skillset you must add to your resume. See the example for reference:

Cover Letters

Writing cover letters is another requirement that job seekers are asked to fulfill. In the cover letter, you introduce yourself and provide a brief summary of your achievements.

However, a cover letter should be written very carefully. You need not write about everything in the cover letter. The biggest mistake people do when writing a cover letter is they do not use paragraph structure. They jump from talking about academic achievements to winning accolades in sports. It confuses the hiring manager.

Here, they can use ChatGPT's deep learning technology to get some in writing a cover letter. They can add basic details and the chatbot will provide a cover letter within seconds. Look at the sample below:

Mocks for the Recruitment Process

A lot of companies conduct recruitment tests and exams to filter the most deserving candidates. Most candidates get rejected at this stage. It happens because they do not prepare for the exam well. They think being confident in the interview is what they need.

But this is far from the truth. The candidates are asked to sit for one or more tests and exams. These recruitment exams include general aptitude, general awareness, and technical knowledge.

You can use ChatGPT to generate a question bank for the desired recruitment process. You should practice these questions before you go for the actual test. It helps you highlight knowledge gaps and the areas which need improvement.

Moreover, since the candidates have limited time for these recruitment tests, preparation will give them an edge over others.

You should surely have a look at the recruitment process articles by Unstop. They provide thorough and well-researched recruitment process articles on various companies, such as TCS, Netflix, Apple, Google, KPMG, D.E. Shaw, and many more.

ChatGPT for Interviews

The last hurdle for job seekers is clearing the interviews. Many job seekers feel nervous because they do not know how the interview is conducted. The biggest source of nervousness are the interview questions. You never know what might you be asked during the interview.

You do not have to fear an interview thinking about dynamic interview questions.

Check out Unstop's article on HR interview: 20 Popular Behavioral Interview Questions With Answers 2024

You can ask ChatGPT to give you a list of questions. You can prepare mock answers before going for the interview.

Candidates are asked technical interview questions and HR interview questions. Technical interview questions involve knowledge of the discipline. Most times, project managers are responsible for conducting interviews. The hiring managers seek to assess the personality of the candidates.

You can ask ChatGPT to generate relevant interview questions for you.

You can also ask ChatGPT to give you interview tips, such as:

The dress code you should follow.
The action/persuasive words you should follow.
Personalizing the responses.

These were some of the uses of ChatGPT for job seekers. The entire hiring process - from job search to interview - can be streamlined and simplified. You can take help from the chatbot at every step. It will allow you to become better at job search and offer you career advancement.

Gurpreet Saini

Sr. Associate Content Writer

An avid reader and an ambitious traveller, I like to curate stories. The instinctive desire to explore the unchartered territories of the unknown and unseen inspires me to find wonder in the cosmos. I find solace in the embrace of nature, and hope to create an environment of peace wherever I go.

Updated On: 29 Jun'23, 04:54 PM IST