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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.
BY DANNY MAIORCA UPDATED 3 DAYS AGO

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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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:
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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
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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."
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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:
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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:
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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:

1. Choose a custom GPT by clicking on Explore GPTs and then typing resume in the search bar.
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2. Write a prompt asking the custom GPT to analyze your resume.

3. Upload a PDF version of your resume.

4. Wait for the GPT to analyze your resume and provide advice on how to change areas that need
improvement. Consider using detailed prompts like the ones we've already discussed to make
everything more relevant.
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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.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Danny Maiorca • Writer
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From PlayStations to MacBooks, consumer tech has always been a part of Danny's life. His main tech-related interest focuses
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