New job-related artificial intelligence tools may help you do more than write cover letters quickly.
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aThe recent buzz around artificial intelligence seems to be about the jobs it could replace. But new generative AI tools may also help find it.
New features and tools from LinkedIn, Adzuna, and Rezi not only enhance what you submit in your job applications, but also claim to help you make career and retirement decisions.
“AI is used at almost every stage of the career planning process,” says James Neave, head of data science at job-search platform Adzuna. The rise of technologies such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard have sparked an AI arms race, with more carrier-related tools adding his AI capabilities to their offerings. Nearly half (46%) of his 2,153 job seekers surveyed by Resume Builder said they use ChatGPT to write their resumes and cover letters.
Nizan Perman, founder and CEO of non-profit Climb Hire, a platform that helps workers learn new skills and find new careers, said AI tools can improve skills. It could be particularly useful for low-income workers, he says. “Trader Joe’s clerks don’t always know what their skills are like,” Pellman said. “If they know how to tell ChatGPT what they are doing, they can turn that into a skill that could help them land a white-collar job,” she says.
However, some recruiters and companies do not welcome this practice. AI users still need to evaluate the results of AI-generated content and tools, Perman said. “You have to use your own critical thinking to determine if this is a sure thing.”
LinkedIn: AI-powered software helps draft messages for hiring managers
Reaching out to recruiters can be difficult. What should a message say?From her May, LinkedIn launched a generative AI to allow premium subscribers to draft personalized messages when messaging with recruiters on her LinkedIn. started using.
The new feature is an addition to the recruiting platform’s AI-powered writing tools that help enhance a user’s profile, according to a post by Ora Levit, senior director of product management and head of core growth.
“Customization is still important,” writes Levit. “So I take the time to review the draft, edit it to make it my own, give my voice and then send it to the recruiter to get me one step closer to the next opportunity.”
NAV: “Your Career Credit Score”
Founded in June by the husband-and-wife duo of Heather and Howard, NAV uses generative AI and its algorithms to score your career or job posting. The user completes an online assessment of her NAV and receives a score and feedback as to whether it is time to leave.
Think of it as your credit score, which tells you how well you’re climbing stairs, says Howard Matalon. “The purpose of this is to give you the advice you need from an HR perspective on key areas of your career trajectory.”
To keep things personalized, NAV also offers a human career coach to help users analyze results and offer advice, he said.
Adzuna: AI helps you prepare for interviews
In June, the job search platform released Prepper, an interview preparation tool that uses AI to generate feedback for questions and answers. In his first 10 days, the tool served him more than 2,000 users per day. Adzuna isn’t new to his AI. The company’s resume evaluation tool has been using natural language processing models since 2014.
To use Prepper, job seekers provide job descriptions to be interviewed to a large language model, and Prepper generates company-specific and job-specific interview questions. As users enter their answers, the tool provides feedback on those answers and suggests answers. (Adzuna’s Neave says the company plans to expand the feature to allow users to answer interview questions using just their voice.)
“It works as a confidence booster,” says Neave, who says it can ease pre-interview anxiety.
Cover Letter Co-Pilot: A Free Service For A Dreadful Job
No one likes writing cover letters. It might sound better to ask a service to do the service for you, but they often charge a fee.
Ben Broch’s Cover Letter Copilot is a free service that uses generative AI and launched in early June. Broch, who has a background in product management, also says users don’t have to ask his ChatGPT generator for individual answers to their questions. Job seekers upload their resume and job description, and the tool generates a customized cover letter.
But Bloch says this is just a starting point. “We don’t want it to be as simple as ‘press a button and the AI does everything,'” he says. “I really need to feel like I’m the co-pilot I’m flying.”
Rezi: Resignation letter generator to help you quit
Rezi’s GPT-powered resume builder is a favorite among job seekers. But the new tool, launched last year, is more appealing to quitters.
Their new AI resignation letter builder uses machine learning to create professional, simple notes in seconds. Simply enter basic information such as company name, title, last day of work, reason for leaving, signature, etc.
Already used by over 315,000 users, the tool offers job-specific templates such as product manager and legal secretary.
