An intro to ChatGPT in your job search

At Computerworld it-jobbank, we see many opportunities for ChatGPT to optimize, among other things, your application, your CV and your job interview. Here we equip you to get started using AI when you are looking for a job.

 

You may already be deeply buried in OpenAI's ChatGPT to write your application or optimize your CV. It may also be that you have to start first.

 

Wherever you are, here are three good starting tips to get you started with ChatGPT in your job search. The area is wide and developing all the time, so see our perspectives as inspiration - take what you can use and leave the rest.

 

1. Use ChatGPT as inspiration

 

ChatGPT can do a lot and it's fascinating! But we are not yet at the point where you prompt the tool and then just copy-paste the generated content into an email to a potential future employer and press send.

 

You still have to have a human finger in the game.

 

ChatGPT's suggestions and pointers are good, but the chatbot can have a vivid imagination and add skills and experience to the application that you don't have.

 

The text itself can also quickly sound generic and superficial if it is not reformulated by a human.

 

When you want to write your application with ChatGPT, see the text as a draft of your personal application, which you correct.

 

2. Your personal information

 

Before we start sharing all the great things ChatGPT can do, we also need to talk about the security of your personal data.

 

As an IT professional, you already know that it is stupid to feed AI with personally sensitive information such as full name, CPR, phone number etc.

 

If you share your CV, for example, then make sure to anonymize everything you don't want "out there".

 

You can optionally use your LinkedIn CV, which is already freely available.

 

3. ChatGPT's memory lasts until 2021

 

At least if you use the free version 3.5.

 

This one has data up to and including September 2021, and is thus blissfully ignorant of events such as the Ukraine war and inflation.

 

Therefore, pay attention to whether your application draft is up to date, and if you are looking for company information via the chat, double-check the information elsewhere.

 

Plus users of ChatGPT are already munching on live data, but the rest of us commoners will reportedly have to wait a little longer before the full version is released.