Tailor your resume with Ai

Hi networkers,

Here’s a cool stat, we’re already 13.84% into 2024!

And since it’s reading week, now’s a good time to take a pause from school and dedicate some energy back to job searching.

If you’re still applying, this article is for you. Today, there are 2 goals:

Sounds good? Let’s leap in. 🙂

🏁 Here’s the route for this week’s run:

🎙️ Tailoring Your Resume

💡 Using ChatGPT for Resumes

📍 Go-To Networking Events

Below are all the steps I take when I tailor my resume.

For this example, we’ll be looking at a business data analyst role for KPMG that I found here.

Most resumes go through an ATS system. This is where a lot of them are rejected before they ever reach a recruiter.

Why? Two reasons, either the formatting is off, or there aren’t enough keywords.

For step 1, make sure your resume is in the M&A format. It is a universally preferred resume structure.

To format your resume, reference this example. It’s a pretty comprehensive walkthrough.

Now that we have the correct format, we need to pass the keyword check.

To find my keywords, I looked at two areas on their job page: What You Will Do & Qualifications.

I used to look for keywords manually but now with AI we can significantly speed this up.

To do this we will use ChatGPT to our advantage. Open up ChatGPT and type in the following prompt.

Once entered, you should have something like this:

Awesome, you got the keywords you need to pass the ATS system. Now for the final step, put them into your bullet points.

I’m sure most of us are aware of the STAR method, that is:

Situation, Task, Action, Result

But instead of figuring out how to write these, we can use a ChatGPT prompt to have it create them for us!

Here’s a prompt I made that you can copy:

Using this prompt, I got this bullet point:

As you can see, the bullet point is brief, and contains the necessary keywords!

But of course, AI isn’t perfect (at least not yet). That’s why I always double-check the sentences and change the wording around if needed.

This entire process took me about 10 minutes and ChatGPT saves your log history, so you can reuse these prompts for other jobs!

This week’s tool is ChatGPT. It has endless use cases, one of which, was today’s topic: resume assistance.

I exported the chat log I used for today’s article, check it out to understand my prompts and replicate them for yourselves!

View it here.

Until next time 👋

-Michael Ly

RBC Event Series

1 Referral - Resume Template
2 Referrals - Cover Letter Template
3 Referrals - Notion Template

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