Artificial Intelligence And Your Job Search And Job Application Journey

From writing your resume for you to automating networking emails, there are tons of ways
A.I. can help streamline your job search. But more importantly, A.I. can also help you cut
through the noise, secure interviews, and impress hiring managers—as long as you use it
well. When you know what you are doing with these tools, A.I. presents 5 mission critical
advantages for the job seeker, and they are:

1. Speeds up the job search process by impacting key elements of the journey.

2. Provides personalised job matching - better match between right candidate &
company.

3. Easier to research and understand the demands of the role.

4. Assistance with the preparation for interviewing and following up.

5. It even helps with the verification and onboarding process.

How to use AI to find and land a job

Condensing an entire job into three high-impact bullet points is no easy feat, and if you’re
like most humans, there’s nothing you dread more than talking about yourself. I’ve easily
lost hours staring at a blinking cursor, writing, deleting, rewriting, condensing—and on and
on.

An AI resume writer—like Kickresume, Rezi, and Skillroads—will do most of that work for
you. All you need to do is fill in your job title. Then the AI resume builder will use AI (in
Kickresume’s case, GPT-4) to come up with relevant bullet points. You can ask the tool to
generate as many bullets as you need, then choose those most relevant to your actual
work experience. The tools can also write your resume summary, education, skills, and
other sections.

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Once the writing part is handled, you choose from a bunch of design templates and
customise colours, fonts, and more to make it feel true to your personal brand.

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Here’s an example of a completed AI-generated resume from Kickresume:

AI resume tools will pull together a draft that’s most of the way there for you to work with.
Then all you have to do is edit and add your unique-as-a-snowflake personality.

2. AI job matching tools (to help you find good-fit roles)

Sorting through job listings, hunting down requirements and salary ranges, and doing your
due diligence on the company culture all eat up valuable energy you could be spending on
impressing hiring managers and securing the right role.

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That’s where AI job matching platforms can help: they use AI to match you with job listings
likely to be a good fit for both sides, based on your skills, experience, and what you’re
looking for in a company or position. Platforms like Talentprise and—if you’re looking for a
remote position—Pyjama Jobs are good options here. Another platform, Fortay, even
offers a quiz to help you narrow in on companies with the right culture fit for you.

With Talentprise, for example, you’ll complete a series of questions on your preferences for
a job (like location, willingness to relocate, remote vs. in-office, and when you’re available
to start) and fill out your “biography,” which covers resume stuff like work experience,
skills, and education. Then, you’ll complete the Talentprise assessment, which measures
personality and work traits, along with your values and motivation, to create a holistic
profile for you.

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Then Talentprise’s AI matches you with relevant job listings on the site and surfaces your
profile to those recruiters. So once you complete your profile, “applying” to best-fit jobs is
as close to a passive endeavor as you could hope for.

3. AI resume optimization tools (to tailor your resume for specific roles)

The reality of applying for jobs now is much different from what it was a decade ago.
Today, many recruiters and hiring managers rely on algorithms and automated applicant
tracking systems (ATS) to scan applicant resumes for the right keywords. If those terms
don’t feature in your resume, you may get kicked to the “no thanks” pile well before a
human ever sets eyes on your application—even if your skills and experience are actually
a perfect fit.

AI optimisation tools like Jobscan and SkillSyncer ensure your resume makes it past
discerning ATS algorithms and into the “interview please” pile.

These tools compare your resume, cover letter, and even LinkedIn profile against the
keywords found in the job listing you select. They rate how well your resume matches with
the role and offer suggestions for how to better optimise your resume for each job.

Here’s what a match rate report looks like in Jobscan.

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And here are some of the tips the tool offered to optimize the resume in question, based
on the job listing.

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4. AI cover letter generators (to write a cover letter draft)

Writing personalized cover letters for each role is possibly the biggest time suck when
applying to jobs—but it’s also necessary to make an impression. AI-powered cover letter
generators like Kickresume and CoverDoc.ai (which was one of our 2023 No-Code Day
Contest winners!) make the process a whole lot faster and easier.

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Provide some basic details about the job you’re applying for, your writing style, and your
LinkedIn profile, and the tool will generate a personalised cover letter draft for you. Here’s
what CoverDoc came up with based on a random sample LinkedIn profile and the job
listing from the screenshot above.

I may change one or two things here, but it is an excellent starting point!

A specialised AI cover letter tool like CoverDoc streamlines the prompt process, but if you’re
already comfortable using another tool, just about any generative AI writing tool can take
care of your cover letter too.

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I hope it goes without saying that you’ll need to review and edit the cover letter to make
sure it accurately reflects your skills and experiences and showcases your personality. But
starting with a solid draft from an AI tool can be a huge boost in the initial stages of the job
application process.

5. GPT Google Sheets add-on (to personalize networking at scale)

Networking—when done in a tasteful, genuine way—can be an effective way to connect

with potential employers and industry contacts. But it can be challenging to personalize
these messages at scale. That’s why most cold outreach is, well, crap.

One approach is to use the GPT for Sheets add-on to generate personalized outreach
messages en masse within Google Sheets. Input a list of recipients and some basic
information about each person (e.g., their name, job title, and company), and the tool will
generate a unique message for each person based on this data.

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In a post on Expandi’s blog, Ilya Azovtsev shares a detailed how-to for using the add-on.
Azovtsev also shares how you can use AI to personalize outreach messaging based on the
recipient’s LinkedIn profile, tweets, psychological AI, and post engagement. (The article
focuses on selling via LinkedIn, but the tactics apply to networking of any kind, via any
channel.)

Once again, you’ll need to review each message and make sure it’s authentic to who you
are as a professional, but this tool can streamline the outreach process by a massive
amount.

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6. Zapier (to automatically draft emails)

If you’ve been job hunting for a while, you’ve probably found yourself drafting nearly
identical email responses to recruiters and hiring managers over and over. It’s tedious, but
short of using the same email template for every response—not usually a winning strategy
—what can you do?

Zapier can connect your Gmail inbox with GPT to automate bespoke emails. Using the
same process outlined in this blog post on using GPT and Zapier to write emails, you can
use AI to generate unique follow-ups, thank-you emails, and other job hunt responses you
frequently need.

When you receive an email from a recruiter or hiring manager, you can mark it as, say, “job
hunt.” Once you add the label to an email, the automation pulls that information and uses
it to generate a prompt for GPT. Then, Zapier uses the GPT response to create a draft in
your Gmail.

So in a matter of minutes, and all behind the scenes, you have a fully drafted email ready
to go—all you have to do is review and hit send.

Zapier is a no-code automation tool that lets you connect your apps into automated
workflows, so that every person and every business can move forward at growth speed.
Learn more about how it works.

7. AI-powered interview coaching tools (for interview practice and

feedback)

Interviews can be nerve-racking, but AI-powered interview coaching tools like Interview
Warmup from Google can help you practice and get feedback in a low-stakes environment.

These tools simulate a real interview and give you personalized feedback based on your
responses. It can help you identify areas where you need to improve, like body language,
tone of voice, or specific interview questions you struggled with.

By practicing with these tools, you’ll feel more confident and prepared for those higher-
stakes real interviews. You’ll also have a better sense of what to expect, which can help
calm your nerves and let you focus on nailing that first impression.

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8. AI-powered negotiation tools (to get the best offer)

Negotiating your salary can be a fraught process—especially if you’re not sure what a fair
salary range looks like for your position and experience. AI-powered compensation tools
like Payscale can help.

These tools use AI to analyze data from thousands of job listings and salary surveys to
provide you with an estimate of what you should earn based on details like the job title and
your experience, education, and location. They can also offer insight into the benefits and
perks you should ask for—like flexible hours or remote work options. Plus, you can fill out
granular information on any existing job offers you have to see how they stack up.

By using these tools to research salaries before you sit down at the negotiating table, you’ll
have a better sense of what to expect and be better equipped to make a strong case for
what you deserve.

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9. Your brain (for being a human)

AI can add a ton of speed—and scale—to your job hunt. But quick reminder: both you and
the hiring manager are human. When you’re applying to and interviewing for a new job,
your application materials need to speak to who you are and what you’re looking for in a
role and company. And they need to be honest: your new company will figure it out very
quickly if you don’t actually have the skills and strengths the robot made it sound like you
have.

While AI can help you move more quickly, it’s always worth investing the time to ensure the
results represent you, the human. Not to mention, other applicants will be using AI, too, so
if you don’t humanise your application materials, you won’t be able to cut through the
noise.

In conclusion, all the talk about artificial intelligence these days seems to be around the
jobs it could replace. But new generative AI tools can help you find one too!

In this guide, I have detailed the different AI tools that can make several aspects of the job
search and job application process easier and smoother for the job seeker.

By harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, these tools can save time, increase
efficiency, and enhance the overall quality of your job search and job application materials
and processes.

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