Here's why most chat GBT outputs are a waste of time for job seekers. Let's use this example from the awesome prompts get up page, a very reputable collection of prompt examples. At first glance, this cover letter prompt looks great. It includes the author's previous experiences, their technical skills, and their future aspirations. But there are two issues here. First, this prompt is all about me, me, and me. And we know the best cover letters start with an interesting hook that talks about them, the company we're applying for. So this prompt fails to take the reader into account. Second, this is an example of a single prompt, where you're asking chat GBT to output a lot of information at once with a single prompt, whereas a dual prompt or multi-prompt approach is shown to give better results.
So here's what you do instead, step one. Based on this job description, what is the biggest challenge someone in this position would face day to day? Go to the job description, copy, and then paste. Enter. All right, now we know their biggest pain point. You want to use this to spark a connection with the reader, who's usually the recruiter or hiring manager. And do this by step two. You're currently working as a sales account manager in the retail industry. Obviously, replace this with your own experiences, and you're applying for this product managed position at Apple. Write an attention grabbing hook for your cover letter that highlights your experience and qualifications in a way that shows you empathize and can successfully take on the challenges of the product manager role. Consider incorporating specific examples of how you've tackled these challenges in your past work and explore creative ideas or ways to express your enthusiasm for the opportunity. Keep your hook within 100 words. The output is not perfect, but it should give you lots of interesting ideas on how to write a good hook for your cover letter. Worst case, this beginning paragraph shows a reader you understand the pain points of the role you're applying for so they know you did your homework.
Step three, you're writing a cover letter applying for the product manager role at Apple. Here's what we have so far. Paste the hook that was previously generated and ideally that you've actually edited, like so, finish writing the cover letter based on your resume and keep it within 250 words. Here's your resume and then paste your resume. Sometimes chat GPT will rewrite the beginning paragraph and it's usually worse than before, so ignore this and use the hook from before, but the remaining paragraphs are now tailored to your experiences. I recommend making adjustments based on the main challenge chat GPT identified for us at the very beginning.
For example, here the biggest challenge would be managing, coordinating, internal, external teams when we bring new products to the market, right? So I would highlight one of my experiences to show how I've dealt with this challenge specifically and I'll delete all the other paragraphs to keep my cover letter short and to the point. The result, I now have a cover letter that first hooks the reader in by showing them I get their pain point and second, keeps them reading by telling them how I'm uniquely positioned to solve that pain point. If you want a deep dive on how to write the perfect cover letter, I'll link the full video down below and if you want to support this channel, you can subscribe to my paid product review newsletter, also linked down below. By the way, just in case my colleagues are watching, I came across this product manager role Apple completely at random. I'm totally not considering coding my current job and applying for this one. I love my job, I love my company, I love my manager.
Moving on to your resume, I do not recommend doing the bare minimum and just copy pasting the job description and asking chat GPT to tailor your resume for that role. Do this instead. Step one, use role prompting. You are an expert resume writer with over 20 years of experience working with job seekers, trying to land a role in tech. Replace this with the industry you're going for. Highlight the three most important responsibilities in this job description. Paste the job description. All right, now you know what the responsibilities are. Step two, great. Based on these three most important responsibilities from the job description, please tailor my resume for this product manager role at Apple. Do not make information up. Here is my resume and paste your resume. Step three, list out the differences between my original resume and your suggested draft in table format with two columns, original and updated. Be specific and list out exactly what was changed down to the exact wording. Step three is extremely important because it allows us to easily catch hallucinations or lies. For example, it changed my job title from a senior management consultant to a product manager. I can highlight transferable skills from being consultant to a product manager, but I can't change my title.
So, two key takeaways here. Number one, the final output tells you what changes you can make to your cart resume so that you're speaking the same language as a recruiter and hiring manager. Number two, the steps one, two and three, I went through just now, takes advantage of a prompt engineering skill called knowledge generation and knowledge integration. This is where you first prompt the chatbot to generate information about a given topic. Then you use that output or integrate that output to help the chatbot answer the question more accurately. Apply the same logic to your resume bullet points. Step one, you are an expert resume writer with over 20 years of experience. Here's a bullet point I have in my resume, no action needed for now. If you understand, please respond with yes. Here's my bullet point and paste your bullet point. Step two, rewrite this bullet point using this structure. I accomplish X by the measure Y that resulted in Z, which by the way is bullet point best practice, as mentioned in my resume video. For example, I lowered hospital mortality rate by 10% by educating nurses in new protocols which translates to 200 lives saved per year. Use compelling language and keep the bullet point within 50 words. This works because of another prompt engineering technique called few shot prompting. You basically give a chatbot an example and ask it for an output using that example as reference. Pro tip, the most common mistake I see in resumes is candidates describing what they do instead of quantifying their impact. And the most common excuse I hear is, oh, but my rule doesn't have a quantifiable impact. You won't be able to use that excuse anymore thanks to this tip. First, use the initial expert resume writer prompt we showed at the beginning, then type in your bullet point with no quantifiable metrics. Okay, press enter. Now literally tell the chat GBT you don't know how your success was measured. Give you suggestions where and how you can add quantifiable metrics in this bullet point. And there you go. And just to prove my point that anything can be quantified, try this in the initial prompt. For the bullet point part, just write, I fetch coffee every day for three months, right? I did some basic data input, but didn't do much else. Okay, press enter. And then now tell chat GBT to give you some ideas and boom, quantify the amount of coffee you prepared. Mention the number of records you were able to input in a given timeframe. And before you laugh this off and say it's unrealistic, I had something similar in my actual resume after a summer internship. Just remember the reader cares more about you knowing the importance of measurement than the actual numbers themselves.
Moving on to preparing for your interviews. The one question you will always get asked is tell me by yourself or walk me through your resume. So step one, you are a seasoned hiring manager with over 20 years of experience. You're responsible for this job posting. Highlight the three most important responsibilities in this job description and then pace your job description.
Step two, based on the three most important responsibilities, help me structure and answer the tell me about yourself interview question based on my resume. Use the present, past and future framework, start with the present, what I'm doing right now, then talk about a few select work experiences I've done in the past and end with the future. Why I wanna work in this new position. Keep the answer within 300 words, here's my resume and paste your resume.
Overall, this is a great first draft, but there are two problems. First, this is too long. You want your answer to be within two minutes, so you wanna edit this down to be within 300 words. And second, the future section here is way too vague. This can apply to any company, right? So you actually wanna follow up with this prompt.
The future section is too vague. Based on the job description, please give me one specific example, why working Apple would be a great fit for me based on my previous experiences. Include keywords from the job description where appropriate. Prioritize unorthodox lesser note advice in your answer. Do not make information up. Here's the job description and you paste the JD.
The output is now tailored for the roles specifically. Clean this up and you have a strong answer to tell me by yourself. To see why present, past and future framework is so powerful, check out the full video down below. To find out other interview questions you should be preparing for, do this.
Step one, you are a seasoned hiring manager with over 20 years of experience. You're responsible for this job posting. Based on this job description, what are the 10 most common interview questions you will ask job applicants? Here's the job description, paste the JD. Now you have the list of questions. Here's how to come up with a perfect answer each time.
I'm preparing for an interview. I'll share the job description. The interview is gonna ask me the question and let's pick a question from above and just paste it right here. Please list out the three main reasons why the interviewer is asking this question and give me three corresponding tips on how to structure my answer. I'll put this in a two column table format, three main reasons on the left hand column and the three corresponding tips in the right hand column. Here is the job description and you paste it down here.
So I actually recommend going through this table so you understand why the question is being asked. Then based on these tips in my own resume, right main answer to the interview question and paste the question in from before, which I believe is this one. Use one specific example for my work experiences. Use a Carl answer format. Context, project background, action, what I did. Results include quantifiable metrics and learning what I learned from the project. Here's my resume and you paste your resume.
Awesome. I'm actually so impressed with chat TBT and myself, of course. Two things. First, your answer should still be between two and three minutes so make adjustments accordingly. And second, I recommend using a Google Doc and compiling all your questions and answers in one place for easy reference.
This video is part one on how to use chat TBT for a job search. We went through cover letters, resumes, and how to find and prepare for interview questions. In part two, we'll go over how to use chat TBT to network and land interviews in the first place, how to identify smart questions to ask the interviewer and how to follow up correctly after an interview. So make sure you're subscribed for that video.
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