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How to Use ChatGPT to Write a Resume and Cover Letter.

teacher avatar Jack Wilson, Writing | Marketing | SEO | AI

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Welcome!

      1:03

    • 2.

      How to Open Your Free ChatGPT Account

      0:33

    • 3.

      What is ChatGPT?

      1:33

    • 4.

      Use ChatGPT to Write ATS Friendly Resumes and Cover Letter

      1:24

    • 5.

      How to use ChatGPT to write your Resume Template

      5:30

    • 6.

      How to Input Your Work History into ChatGPT to Write Your Resume

      5:14

    • 7.

      Have ChatGPT Optimize Your Resume for ATS Scanners

      2:39

    • 8.

      How to Use ChatGPT to Write Your Resume and Optimize it For Specific Companies

      4:52

    • 9.

      Ask ChatGPT for Helpful Notes for Resumes, ATS, and More

      4:09

    • 10.

      Building and Designing Your Resume

      3:19

    • 11.

      Why You Need a Cover Letter

      3:12

    • 12.

      Use ChatGPT to Write and Optimize Your Cover Letter for Specific Companies and Roles

      6:12

    • 13.

      How to Use ChatGPT to Write and Optimize Your Indeed and LinkedIn

      3:53

    • 14.

      Congrats!

      0:33

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How to Use ChatGPT to Write a Resume and Cover Letter

  • Has it been a while since you've updated your resume?
  • Not sure what companies are looking for in a resume or even where yo get started?
  • Are you tired of spending hours writing and formatting your resume and cover letter, only to receive no response from potential employers?
  • Do you want to learn how to use the latest AI technology to create a powerful resume and cover letter that will impress hiring managers and recruiters?

If so, then this course is for you.

In this comprehensive course, you will learn how to use ChatGPT, a cutting-edge language model, to create a winning resume and cover letter.

You will discover how to leverage the power of AI to write compelling job application documents that will stand out in a crowded job market.

Welcome to how to How to Use ChatGPT to Write a Resume and Cover Letter. 

In this course, we'll be covering how you can use ChatGPT to write your resume, and even optimize your resume for specific companies, roles, job titles, and positions. We'll cover how you can give ChatGPT your notes on your

  • Career history
  • Work skills
  • Work experiences
  • Successes, wins, accolades, and more

And let it go to work for you to write your ideal resume and cover letter.

After you give it the information it needs, ChatGPT can draft multiple resume templates or fully fleshed-out resumes in seconds. Use ChatGPT to create multiple versions of your resume, tailored for specific companies or roles you want to apply to. 

When you use ChatGPT to write a resume and cover letter, you will...

  • Utilize a cutting-edge, free AI technology to generate high-quality, personalized text for your resume and cover letter.
  • Save hours of time and effort by giving ChatGPT the cliff notes of your career history. Then letting it use that information to create one or multiple, world-class, optimized resumes for you in a fraction of the time it'd take to write your own.
  • Increase the chances of getting noticed by recruiters and hiring managers by optimizing your resume and cover letter for company's that use applicant tracking systems (ATS).
  • Get feedback and suggestions from ChatGPT on your resume and cover letter, helping you identify areas of improvement and refine your application further.
  • Eliminate the need for hiring professional resume writers, saving you a significant amount of time and money.
  • Develop a valuable skill that you can apply to future job applications and career opportunities.
  • Increase your confidence in your job search by having a professionally written resume and cover letter that stands out in a crowded job market.
  • Join a supportive community of learners who are all striving to improve their job application documents.

And above all, leverage the latest advancements in AI technology to improve your job search process and land your dream job.

Don't put your dream job off any longer. 

Let's get started with teaching you how to use ChatGPT to write your resume and rover letter.

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Jack Wilson

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Writing, SEO, digital marketing, and AI software. 

 

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Career digital marketer, content creator, and writer 12+ years of experience.  Track record personal and client successes in content writing, copywriting, blog writing, SEO, social media marketing, and more.  I've helped grow the digital reach of businesses of all sizes, from small local businesses to international franchises.  I also love dogs, lots of sunshine, long evening walks, daily gym-time, strong coffee, hot tubs, fun accents, celebrity impersonations, standup comedy, superhero movies, dancing in my living room, maki... See full profile

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1. Welcome!: So I don't know about you, but for most of us, it may have been awhile since the last time you updated your resume and cover letter. So what does this have to do with GPT? And for that matter, what is check GBT? Well, if you need to overhaul, rewrite, optimize your resume and cover letter to get out of your current job if it's not great or go after your dream job if you just want something better, this is the best time in history to do it. Check GBT is an AI writing tool and so much more than that that you can use to actually write your resume and cover letter for you. And it's really incredible. You give it the bare minimum input about your job history, your work experience related skills, and it will deliver to you the most beautiful packaged resume that you can possibly imagine. You can even write your entire cover letter for you based on the information that you give it. So if you're interested in learning how to use chat GBT to write your resume and cover letter, you've come to the right place. I am so excited to be here to bring you this course to teach you how to do that. And without further ado, let's go ahead and jump in. 2. How to Open Your Free ChatGPT Account: Alright, so the first thing we're going to want to do here is open up your free chat GPT account. So what we'll do is we'll just go to the search bar and search bar here and go to chat that open.com. And then you should see this screen populate. And then from here you can just go ahead and sign up using your email. And you can go ahead and set up a password as well. You'll see it's super quick and easy to do. They may send you an e-mail confirmation just to confirm your email for signing up and then you'll be ready to go. 3. What is ChatGPT?: Alright, so maybe you've heard a lot about chat GBT in the news recently or on the web. So what is it exactly? So it's a really sophisticated AI chat bot. And just to show you how cool this application is, I thought I would give you a test to let chat GPT tell you what it is, it's own words. So what is beauty? There we go. A large language model developed by OpenAI and based on the GPT-3 0.5 architecture, which means I'm a type of artificial intelligence, is to understand natural language and generate responses to questions and prompts. I've been trained on a vast corpus of text data which includes everything from books and articles, a social media person, online conversations. So you can already be in to see how cool this is that it's describing what it does and the value here. And then, let's go ahead and test another question here and say, what are some of the best? Let's just go riding. Use cases for Chad should be D. And then you can take a look at this here. On top of resume writing, we have content generation, creative writing, academic writing, translation from one text format or language to another. Email writing, as we, as we said, your resume and CV writing of course, and then proofreading and editing. So you can see there's a wide variety of use cases and applications for this very sophisticated AI chat software. 4. Use ChatGPT to Write ATS Friendly Resumes and Cover Letter: Another massive value-add the chat GPT brings to the table when it comes to helping you write your resume and cover letter, is it can actually optimize those things for ATS systems or applicant tracking systems or software. These are systems that companies use to automate the process of searching for the right candidates for jobs. So they use these pieces of software to look for specific keywords, mostly in resumes and cover letters when they're looking at an applicant pool. And depending on the keywords and the density and maybe even some of the performance metrics that candidates include in their resume and cover letter. Companies can automate that process. Instead of having a human manually go through a huge stack of digital resumes, they can automate that with ATS systems. So one thing I wanted to show you here is I just wanted to ask Chad GPT, can you help me optimize my resume and cover letter for ATS software? So you can see it answer yes, I can definitely help you optimize your resume and cover letter for ATS software, optimize your resume and cover letter. So then it goes straight into these points. And so these data points and these bullets here, we can use as information to go into writing and queuing and coaching chat GBT to write a perfectly ATS friendly resume and cover letter. 5. How to use ChatGPT to write your Resume Template: Alright, so once you've gotten your account setup and you've logged in, you should see a screen that looks like this. I know that I have a lot of different chats and templates that I'm using here over on the side because I've been using this tool for awhile now, but you'll find this screen here. And what's great is chat GPT already sets you up for success and using this, they give you some different examples for use cases here that you can punch in and get outputs for. It has different capabilities and it also has limitations right here. So this is the screen that you're going to see. And just for an example of just how powerful this tool is and so we can kick this off strong. I thought I would do a quick test. This isn't gonna be my exact resume. I'm not even going to give it a full resume of mine. I'm just going to type in a really quick sample template so I can show you how quickly chat GPT you can go to work for you. So just to make up a work history here, let's say create a resume template for a person. I will just go for myself who has 12 plus year career in digital marketing, including SEO, social media, marketing, content writing, copy writing. And actually let's just leave it there and see what the output is. You can see how quickly this is already going to work to create just a resume template here, which is really incredible because as we all know the hardest part and getting started with a resume, especially if it's been awhile since you've opened it up or update it. It's just not knowing where to start. Like, what are the most common ways that people are filling it out now? Or they're popular templates, or there's things that you shouldn't be doing right now. So chat GBT is pulling on thousands, potentially millions of different resources online to put this together for it and liquid it was able to come up with an a couple of seconds. So we've got all of your personal information at the top, but you can fill in. We've got a career summary that this personalized to me. And once again, I didn't give it any details. I didn't say I was at this company from this date to this date. I was the second company from this date to this date, here were some of my roles. Here were some of my experiences, the skills that I use, accomplishments that I had my position, then liquid it was able to put together. So you can have an idea of even the kind of action items and bullets that you're going to fill out just from this simple resume template idea. Now of course, let's, let's take this example and extend on it. Let's say use this same template, but, but include job experience. For me. Using this work history. Let's go 2012 to 2016. I was a social media marketer working for let's just make up something a, B, C Corp. And from 2016 to, let's just bring it up to 2023. I am SEO Manager and content marketing specialist for XYZ corporation. And let's see what it comes up with here. You can just see how incredible this is and go into work like it just filled out the corporation I gave it and putting the more current work experience on top, the one further back. On the bottom we have the name of the made-up corporation here, the job title, and then the dates at the company. Then we have a list of skills here, a lot of which are really common that you'll see in marketing. So you could list those out for yourself, certifications, and then you can include references there at the bottom too. So you can see that without that much work here in a couple of minutes, we already made a really strong start that if you hadn't existing resume and you just wanted to punch that information into this. You could do it. And you can even have chat GBT do that for you. You could actually copy and paste your resume into this message box right here and say, hey, Chad GPT, use this above template and input this career data that you copy, paste it and it will go ahead and do that for you. So this is probably plenty enough to get you off and running. Go ahead and test it out for yourself. Pull up the most recent copy of your resume. And like I said before, you just need a basic job title, career history. You don't even need details. If you don't have an updated version, your resume. Treat this like a conversation with the chat bot. Say, Hey, my name is this. I've had a long career in fill-in-the-blank. And these are the dates that I spent at these companies. You can give it examples of tasks you did, projects that you had, big wins that you had in your roles at each company. And it'll go ahead and start to populate these things for you. So go ahead and give that a try and see what you think. 6. How to Input Your Work History into ChatGPT to Write Your Resume: Alright, so now you have your resume template. You can go ahead and create a couple of different versions if you want. You can ask chat GBT, Hey, can you create a different version except this time and feed it changes or just, just tell it in general to create a different version of your resume if there's something you'd like to change that to keep in mind. It is pulling from thousands or millions of sources on the web to bring you the best outline for your resume. You can even punch that in as an input to of like, Hey, use today's industry best resume template for creating my resume. Just to give you some more ideas of how you can use this thing, I've gone ahead and created a slightly more fleshed-out version of a fake resume that I'll be using here. So I still have a couple of different companies. I added a third just to see how it would deal with the outputs and added another job. Have four years basically at this Fake Corporation, ABC Corp, a few years at XYZ and then another here and there. So I'm just going to go ahead and say use this template to create a resume around this fake job experience and you'll see it go to work here again. Once again, updated. My title, updated the years since I added a whole new career for this had three different jobs instead of just the two. Pretty much the same skills section for certifications. Okay, great. So this is what gets really awesome here, is you can ask it to do different things from this point in time. So say that, okay, I really liked this resume. I liked the bullet points that they put in here. The development execution of SEO and content marketing strategies increase website traffic and drive conversions. Awesome, develop and execute comprehensive content marketing strategies that Dr. lead generation and brand awareness. So these are some really awesome bullets like if I would ask you as you go through this entire thing, think about what your employer or potential employer, the job you're applying for. What are they going to want to see in your resume? That's going to showcase you as the best candidate possible. And one huge piece of advice that I can't say it enough is that employers want to see not only like you're taking action in your role, they also want to see statistics and figures. So if you have any like big wins that you can add from your career of increased revenue growth for an account or traffic to a website. Or you were the first to get a huge project done. Or you are recognized by some of the C-suite executives at your company, or the president or your boss, or you had any awards or accolade, you want to include that in here. So just as a general way of approaching this as since we're using a fake career history here, let's say this is great. Use this same resume, but include job and career. Let's do this, but include specific bullet points for data, good job and career wins. And then we can just say e.g. grew account traffic by 30%, grew company revenue by 10% in the first 12 months, etc. So we just gave it some examples here. So it has something to riff off of and let's go ahead and try this. So look, it's even adding these highlight points to your resume of what you're able to do. And this is just really incredible to watch this work. So as you're going through and you're modifying your resume, or you could actually feed these specific data points, like if you have a Google doc list of wins that you have in specific jobs, you can just tell it, Hey, use this data from this career position and add this as a bullet to whatever point on your resume here. And so this gives us an even better template of, and now it, it kinda, I don't want to say went overboard. But it put basically metrics and data in each one of these bullets. Now, you could even ask it to merge the two because I love some of the ideas up here. You don't necessarily have to be data-driven. Once again, this is gonna be a mix of showing accompany that you're able to achieve success in your role through data and metrics. But also you're going to want the right keywords in your resume. So now you have a little bit better idea of how to add your own career and job history into this. And how to, I guess, punch up your resume a little more to include these important data points that companies are going to want to see from you. 7. Have ChatGPT Optimize Your Resume for ATS Scanners: So an important point I brought up earlier as you want to make sure that your resume is optimized for these applicant tracking systems or ATS. And you might be asking yourself, Well, what's the best way that I can do that? One of the easiest first steps you can take and optimizing your resume for these applicant tracking systems is just including the job title that you're going for. So say, based on this resume, past experience, the most recent job we've had is headed content and SEO. Let's say we file this down a little bit more. Let's say that this is my actual job experience, e.g. and I want to apply for, let's just say it, head of content position in the company. So I would tell chat GBT to take all this existing information and this is what's so great is it can reference everything in this conversation to create the next output. You don't have to give it a background again and re punch in all these various inputs a second time or third time or fourth time. It can just reference everything in the conversation. Kinda like you're having a conversation with a friend and that's kinda what I recommend that you do when using chat GBT. So I'll even be really specific here and say, use this resume to create an ATS friendly resume for jobs I'm applying for, titled stri this head, head of content. Let's give this a shot. Awesome. So changed the summary experience, had a contact with over 12 years. It's keeping the percentages and the data and the winds, those examples from the previous draft. And we're still hitting all of those content. That's gonna be one big thing that the ATS is going to be looking for is evidenced of content experience, writing experience, obviously digital marketing. And it's going to be considering all of that when making this. So these are a couple of different valuable things that you can use with chat GBT. Tell it to create a resume that's ATS friendly. And one of the other best things that you can do is tell it the job titles that you want to optimize for. Because the more specific information you give it, the more specific it's going to create these outputs that are gonna be suitable for your application needs and your job needs. 8. How to Use ChatGPT to Write Your Resume and Optimize it For Specific Companies: Another thing that's really impressive to include in your resume when sending it out and application packets to companies besides including things like the specific job title that you're applying for, like we discussed in previous videos with the career summary here, you can even include a career goal until chat GBT to include a career summary and covering all your past experience. You can have it include a career goal and tell it what kind of positions you're seeking and you can even get as specific as what company you're looking for jobs or applying for jobs at. Let's go, Let's use this previous resume example. Say use this resume but include, Let's go. But also a section for career goals for seeking a job as head of content and accompany. Let's see what it comes up with. And what's really great about this is I didn't pre-test any of these inputs are scripts. You can tell that I'm just doing this live on the spot here with you all because I wanted to authentically show you the power of this tool check GPT is just incredible. And so it's taken all this previous data we've punched in, auto populating every single thing in that resume. And then now it's added this nice critical section seeking to challenging and dynamic roles had a continent accompanying the values, creativity, innovation, and strategic thinking looking to leverage my extensive experience in SEO content marketing. So this is great. This is great. A few short sentences on career goals. One thing that gets even more amazing here is if you have a specific company or organization that you want to apply to for jobs, your ideal job or title, or maybe you're qualified to apply for a couple of different positions. This also comes in real handy tool where you can say create this. Let's go create a version of this. Resume, applying, add a specific company, and then let's just use like we can just make up any example here. Let's just say, let's just say ABC immediate group. I don't even know if that's a part of the actual broadcasting group, but we'll just use an example to see what it comes up with. Silicon. It just auto populated right there. So you can include like any company that you're creating a resume for. This is what's so valuable. And some of that I'll recommend to do is somebody who spent a lot of time optimizing resumes for myself, friends, editing those resumes, writing cover letters and helping people out with those and proofreading those is that you'll want multiple versions of your resume because at this point in your career, you might be qualified for very specific jobs. You might be qualified for four or five or a dozen different positions based on your career experience. So it's good to have different drafts of your resume for your job history. Because if you're applying for, say, take, take this specific example that we're using, this made-up resume that I'm using. This person here has experienced in social media marketing content marketing content writing, copywriting, SEO. Well, if you're going for a content marketing or head of content position that accompany, I'm going to want a resume that heavily reflects for ATS systems and emphasizes all of the content marketing writing experience that I have. Now say that I'm applying for an SEO job, whether it's at the same company or a different organization. I want to create a different version on my resume that really emphasizes the SEO experience that I have. If this went into paid marketing or advertising I want include PPC or social media ads or whatever it might be. So it's really valuable to create different versions of your resumes for not only different job titles that you can do this for different companies too. I just recommend saving them in Google Docs or saving them here and your IGBT history so that you have them. But this is just a great example of, like I said, how you can give it just more data to refine your outputs. It's so valuable to have a career goal in here. And if you can get as specific as not only the job that you're applying for, but the company that you're applying for and why you're applying to that company. Like businesses love seeing that in resume packets. So go ahead and input your resume back into here or keep riffing and the same conversation that you're having with Chad GPT, then see what you can come up with. 9. Ask ChatGPT for Helpful Notes for Resumes, ATS, and More: Another item I thought might be really helpful to show you is how you can actually ask chat GPT questions on how to improve and optimize your resume. So once again, this is gonna be a live test here, but we're going to keep it in the same thread, the same chat you can see we're here in resume template creation, which is what we've been using since the beginning. So you'll stay in your same conversation just asked chat to GBT. What do I need to do with my resume to optimize it for it. So this is where chat GPT is just an unbelievable tool for helping you learn while you're doing this process. So what's really amazing here is that you don't even have to go to the search engine that you use or Google to like look up information on this, you can purely just ask it a question and it is pulling from, like I said, millions of different data points online to give you examples here. So it's a great lesson to include in this course. Using a simple and clean format is great. This can be confusing ATS systems if you include images, graphics, special characters, things like that, use standard section headings. So the formatting of that makes your job title standout. How many years you were there? Things like that, including relevant keywords. So like I emphasized before, this is a big one using relevant keywords from your job descriptions throughout your resume. That'll help you get picked up by these ATS systems and hopefully move you to the next round of the interview. Bullet points are huge here. Writing bullet points is just a great way to highlight all your successes, wins, roles that you had, projects you completed, what your day to day, your week-to-week look like your responsibilities at your company. So once again, here we're going to avoid complicated things like using tables, columns are textboxes that makes it really tough for these ATS to scan. And then another thing too, is just making sure that you keep your resume as a plain text file or a PDF file just because the ATS systems can have trouble reading other formats and things like that. So this will really help you get picked up by these applicant tracking systems. You can also ask another questions like, what's the, we'll go ahead and give you a preview here and say, what's the best way to optimize my cover letter for ATS systems. So another thing to keep in mind about ats is it doesn't just scan your resume for keywords and all of these valuable data bits that companies want to see in your resume. They also do this for your cover letter too. So I'll probably give us some similar feedback. But you can use this information to create your ideal cover letter or multiple versions of your cover letter which I recommend and which we'll get into here in a little bit. So just keep that in mind as you do this, I would go ahead and run your own prompts. You can even ask chat GBT things like, what's the best order for the sections of my resume. And it can give you an idea here. So contact information, professional, professional summary. So that's what it put together for us and the template we've been using and creating throughout this course. Work experience, education, skills certifications, awards, interests and hobbies. This is perfect and even leaves a note here. Remember to tailor your resume to the job you're applying for, including relevant keywords and highlighted and achievements that are most relevant to the position. So this is what's really amazing is you're not only learning how to use chat GPT to write your resume for you and cover letter in this course, you can actually use chat GBT as a learning tool to help you get better at resume writing to and then use this information with chat GBT to create the best iterations and versions of your resume to go ahead and test some of these prompts. Use it as a tool for learning while you're doing this process, ask questions if you're curious about anything as it goes and let me know what you think. 10. Building and Designing Your Resume: Another thing that we can ask chat GBT had to do is we can ask it for recommendations on the best software that we can use for our resume. Since we've been going through the same chat the entire time, it has all the information about what we're looking for, a job experience. We have questions about ats. It's pooling all of this knowledge to make recommendations for us. So why don't we just ask Jackie GPT really quick of what's the best software to use for building and designing my resume for ATS systems. We've already gotten a pretty good idea from the questions we've asked it earlier that we're going to want a software that simple, that's clean, that we're not using any complex designs or anything that's going to make it difficult to read our resume for the ATS. It's a great Microsoft Word, google Docs. They have really simple templates for this. Canva, if you want to do a little more graphic design, Adobe InDesign. So I would just take this and run with it and use one of these. Most people are familiar with Word and Google Docs. They also have a lot of great templates that are, it's probably built in an easy to read for a lot of these ATS scanner is companies are going to prefer reading in those formats as well because they probably get a lot of those. But say that we want IGBT to make some more recommendations. We could just ask what other software I use to what it comes up with. Novo resume, Visual CV, Zadie, that's when I've used before. I really like there's actually an AI component of that too. And perfect, so now you have some recommendations of what software to use and what gets even more wild as you could even ask it, hey, what templates should I use from Microsoft Word or Google Docs? Create my resume. I'll just ask it, Can you teach me how to build and design my resume and Google Docs? Let's see what it comes up with. Step-by-step instructions. Open Google Docs, create a new document, go to File Page Setup, letter orientation, portrait. Now sometimes and you will notice this with the free version. It can slow down if there's a lot of people on the network, that seems to be one of the bigger benefits of paying the $20 a month to use premium. Honestly, I don't run into this problem that often fits during the workweek, mike, because there's a lot more people using it. But here we can hit stop generating, Let's hit regenerate response to it it comes up with. So yeah, you can just see it populating step-by-step instructions to walk you through how to do this. And of course you could go, there are tons of great videos on YouTube that can walk you through how to put this together. And you could do research on templates and what you think would look best for your resume. But here's chat GPT. You don't even have to go to the search engine. It just gave you a easy to do list here of opening up Google Docs and how you can start putting together your resume using that. 11. Why You Need a Cover Letter: Alright, so now that you've got a really good handle on all the ways you can use chat GBT to help write your resume for you. What about the cover letter? So first and foremost, why is the cover letter so important as a part of your application package? So the main reason that we include cover letters and application packages, it just gives the company or the hiring manager, the recruiter that you're working with, whoever it might be internally or third-party wise, it just gives them more information about you, why you're seeking the position, your job history, what you're passionate about, it gives them a better sense of your identity as a person, what you're looking for, where you find fulfillment in work. And I think another way that they really assess candidates here is the writing capabilities. Writing is one of the most important skills that you can have in the modern workplace. So if you can really articulate all of these things, if you can show them some personality, some passion, some flair, some intelligence and skill through your writing. It's a really great way to impress the hiring manager, whoever you're trying to get your cover letter in front of. And just for the fun of it, I thought we might as well go ahead and ask Jesse Beatty. What is the value of a cover letter just so you can see for yourself. Make it more personalized and engaging. Introduction. Show your personality, enthusiasm for the job, provides context for your resume, shows you've done your research. That's another thing If you can show them that your values aligned with the values of the company, this is huge, so this is a really cool idea that I've seen. Others use online for customizing cover letters is they'll actually tell chat GBT to take the mission statement of a specific company or the values of the value statement of a specific company. And they'll actually copy, paste that value statement into THE beauty and say, Hey, create a cover letter based around the value statement of this company. So then you're hitting all of these big resonant company buzzwords. That hiring manager will see that you have the same values as the company which is really attractive. And there might even be a better chance that the ATS picks up on that too. Because they have it set up to register certain keywords, buzzwords, phrases, values, whatever it might be. And that'll also help you be able to hopefully rise to the top stack a little bit better. So I would recommend taking this. And if you've got a specific job or a specific company in mind, feed, if they've got a mission statement or a value statement, feed that into chat GPT and ask it to create a cover letter for you, knowing that you're going to be applying for a position at that company. So I just wanted to cover really quick the value of having a cover letter. Once again, this is another great opportunity to use chat GBT as a learning tool for yourself. And also the value of getting those specific things from companies that show their mission and their values and how incorporating that into your cover letter can help. 12. Use ChatGPT to Write and Optimize Your Cover Letter for Specific Companies and Roles: Alright, now that we understand the value a cover letter has to your application packet, Let's go ahead and do similarly to what we did for our resume and create a cover letter based off of all this information. So I'm just going to tell the chat GBT, use my resume information to create a, let's just do cover letter template and see what it comes up with. Awesome. So you can see that it's using all of that previous data that we gave it about our job background. Now, this is pretty short and it's pretty general. So let's say create a cover letter specifically for me applying for a job at ABC media Corp for a head of content position. Let's see what it comes up with. And so you can see how it's getting even more specific with the feedback we're getting. Just for fun, let's say inject some humor and personality into this cover letter and see what it comes up with. Hopefully convince you that I'm not just another boring robotic candidates spouting off buzzwords and industry jargon. Great opener here. So let's go to the chase and passionate about creating engaging. So I just told it to add some humor and personality. And personally, if I was a hiring manager or you were a hiring manager hiring for this job. And you saw the humor in this. So let's go to the j's and passion about creating, engaging, high-quality content that informs, entertains and hopefully it converts. And I think it'd be pretty **** good in this role. So that's really interesting that it even drops and exploitative in there, which I would probably say edit out unless it's in the brand and values of the company you're applying for. Maybe it is, and that's something that really stand out to them. But you can say, okay, make this a, let's just go clean this up a little and make it more business casual. See what it comes up with. And as you can see, it is dressing it. Abc media, corporate reputation for producing high-quality content and forms and entertains. Let's use an existing company as an example here just to see what we can come up with. So let's say write a cover letter that humerus. Humerus and and personalized for me applying for a head of content position at what's a big company we could put in here head of content at, let's just use PayPal as an example. I know what you're thinking. Wow, another cover letter, but hear me out. I have a track record of creating confidence, engaging, informative, and even a little funny. So once again, we punch it up so that it was a little more humorous. So let's do this. Use this same cover letter, but include items in it that directly speak to paper towels. Paper towels mission statement. And let's see what it comes up with. Immediately struck by how your mission to democratize financial services, the lines of my own values, spent the last 12 years in digital marketing. I'm thrilled about the possibility of joining a team to the forefront of innovation and revolutionizing the way people do business online. So see immediately catches the eye of a hiring manager as an opener or an ATS system of you're addressing their specific mission statement. You can also use if you know the person hiring for this position, you can include who this is gonna be directed to. Obviously, these are all just great starts you can use for a cover letter. And from here you can just ask chat GBT to punch up specific parts of it to address or highlight specific parts of your career experience that make you a good fit. You could copy, paste in bits from the specific job listing that you're applying for us. You can literally take a job listing from Indeed or LinkedIn or whatever platform you're using to apply to. And you could copy and paste that entire job listing into here and say, hey, create a compelling cover letter based on this specific position information. And it will create something totally unique that addresses the specific roles, responsibilities, expectations of the exact position you're applying for. And I can't think of a better way to stand out to the hiring manager then bullet by bullet, line item by line item addressing the specific job that you have in mind. So open up your chat, GPT, keep going in the same shatters, same conversation and just start playing around with different types of templates that you can create for this and start making your perfect cover letter. And once again, just like resumes, it's always valuable to have different versions of your cover letter. So if you have like three or four different jobs that you're qualified to do are applying for. You can have separate versions of each and just pick the ones that you like best. Save them in Google Docs or keep them saved here in chat GBT. And you'll be good to go. 13. How to Use ChatGPT to Write and Optimize Your Indeed and LinkedIn: And one last big point that we're going to cover here on the topic of resumes and cover letters, which I think is really important to underscore and highlight, is the fact that you're going to be doing the vast majority, if not all of your job applications, going through some kind of job or career portal online, whether that's indeed or LinkedIn, whatever that may be, you're gonna be using one of these online portals to apply for jobs. So one thing I thought I'd show you here really quick is why not ask chat GBT? Can you, can you help me use this information to optimize my indeed profile, since it's the number one Career Explorer builder job market online. Why don't we go ahead and use Indeed first. And see here's a way that you can tell that techy beauty is amazing, but it's not perfect because as of right now, I don't think you can add a professional profile picture to your ND profile. I believe it's all text at this point. But it gives you all the components here that you need to make a really great profile. Then what I would do is you can just copy and paste this into chat you PT and feed it through again. So I would say use my career experience to write a compelling, concise headline for my indeed profile. See what it comes up with. And here we go already digital marketing expert with 12 plus user experience, SEO, social media content, innovative content and SEO managed with proven track record of a growing company revenue, strategic vision, and strong leadership skills. And then let's say, I mean, we'd probably use these for LinkedIn as well, but let's say do the same for my LinkedIn profile and see what it comes up with. Awesome. So you even see it incorporating specific things from LinkedIn that you'll see like people using vertical bars to separate the skills. Here are roles. Have content SEO driving company growth through innovative strategy is content marketing specialist SEM Andrew, driving engagement and brand awareness, Senior digital marketing professional. I mean, these are all great. You could pick any one of them. Then you could ask it. Can you write a full indeed career summary because they do have a personal summary, your career summary on there. Let's give it a shot. And it's going to work. Once again, you can use everything that it's writing out here for you. This is a great little summary of you and your work history here. You can use some of the prompts we use from the cover letter earlier and say, Hey, make this humorous, make this funny, make this professional, make this casual. I believe you can even make it in the tone of specific celebrities that you like, which should be really fun to play around with here. I mean, the possibilities are endless to have this create for you, to make your resume and cover letter stand out. So I would just recommend. Biggest thing I can recommend here is since the majority of applications you're gonna be doing are probably through one of these or some other various major portals and applying for jobs and use chat GBT and the resume that it helps you create to build out all your profile content on Indeed, LinkedIn, whatever else you might be using to help streamline the application process. 14. Congrats!: And that's it. Now you have all the tools you need to effectively not only sign up for Chet GBT and learn the basics of how to use it. But to Q chat GBT on how to write the perfect resume and cover letter for you. I would love to hear about your progress, things you're testing which had GPT, maybe even closing that dream job that you've wanted for so long. Now, keep us posted on your progress prompts. You might be testing outputs you're getting with Chad, CBT, maybe some of your favorite resume templates that you've been using and we can't wait to hear about your progress in the future. Thanks again for taking this course and we'll see you soon.