Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang famously said that “you are not going to lose your job to an AI, but you are going to lose your job to someone who uses AI.” Regardless of whether’s he right, AI provides plenty of powerful tools to help increase productivity while at work. It turns out that it can also help you find work, and in an increasingly competitive job market, any edge you can get is a good one.
There are a lot of pieces to finding a job, including creating a resume, finding jobs to apply for, writing cover letters and conducting interviews. There are some things still worth doing on your own. For example, some companies won’t hire you if they think your cover letter was written by AI. However, you can still use things like chatbots to assist in writing early drafts of your cover letter if you’re suffering from a bit of writer’s block.
Otherwise, you can use AI at just about every other step in the process. Here are some great tools to help get you started.
AI resume builders
First thing’s first, you have to make a resume. As a freelancer, I have one on hand at all times, and they’re truly irritating to make. Fortunately, AI can help with this. I know that because my resume was crafted by AI, and as you can see from the existence of this story, I’m getting work. Of all the AI tools, letting AI build your resume is probably the one I’d recommend most because it’s easy, unintrusive, and no companies I’m aware of care if your resume was made by AI.
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AI resume builders work in two ways. First, they let you dump everything into one spot, and the AI does the work constructing the thing, which saves you time. Secondly, you may want to adapt your resume to the job you’re applying for, so you may need to make multiple resumes, which also saves you time.
There are plenty of tools in this space. However, the two I like most are Canva’s AI resume builder and KickResume. Both of them have free options, both of them can use your LinkedIn profile to generate a resume, and the various templates actually look pretty good. Of the two, I prefer KickResume since it also has extra tools like cover letter writing assistance, but Canva has nicer templates, in my opinion. You can go with either one or both.
AI job interview prep
Landing a job isn’t just about applying to jobs with a nice resume and cover letter. You have to ace a job interview as well. There are AI tools that exist to help with this, including sites like Interviewsby.ai and Huru. Both of these sites are fairly similar in their approach. You input what kind of job you’re going for, and the sites generate questions, which you answer vocally over a recording. Once done, you submit for AI analysis, which gives you feedback on how to improve the answers next time.
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ChatGPT has this function as well. This is a nice tool if you already use ChatGPT or if you want to go with a more well-known company. It works mostly the same way. You conduct an interview and receive feedback on how it could’ve been made better in the future. Even if you don’t pay attention to the feedback as much, the AI-generated questions were all good enough in our experience to emulate real interview questions.
Hiring.cafe
Hiring.cafe is one of several AI-powered job search tools. Of the tools on this list, this one is the most like a traditional job search website, like Indeed, Monster, and similar websites. It’s essentially a massive job board where you can search for jobs based on various criteria. There are a ton of filters to work through, including experience, commitment, salary, certifications, and you can even sort by shift and schedule times.
The AI here is baked into the platform. Per Hiring.cafe, they use AI algorithms to scrub “millions of (ghost) jobs directly from the company website daily.” They also use ChatGPT’s API to extract information from postings to power its many, many filters. You can apply to jobs, save them for future reference, and mark jobs as “applied” to remove them from future search results and recommendations as well.
JobCopilot
JobCopilot is an automated job application platform. The premise is pretty easy. You tell JobCopilot what kinds of jobs you’re looking for by uploading your resume and answering some questions. The tool then automatically searches for jobs. You select the ones you want and the site applies automatically on your behalf. JobCopilot sources its information by scrubbing over 300,000 company career pages, which is way more than a human can do on their own.
The logic here is pretty simple. By mass applying for jobs, you increase your odds of getting a job interview. Per JobCopilot, the average person has to apply to 50-100 jobs to get one interview, a problem for which JobCopilot is a solution. We don’t have any metrics to show how successful the platform is at actually finding jobs, but having something casting a wide net on your behalf certainly can’t hurt.
Sonara
Sonara is a direct competitor to JobCopilot, and the two websites do mostly the same thing. You upload your resume, answer a few questions, and the site gets an idea of what kind of work you’re looking for. From there, it’ll submit your resume and apply for jobs on your behalf. Like JobCopilot, you choose the jobs you’re interested in, and the site automatically sends your resume or fills out the application for you.
Sonara is a little more secretive about where it gets its information from, but it likely scrubs a similar set of websites as JobCopilot. We found Sonara to be a little easier to use at first, but ultimately, both websites perform the same function as well as one another. You can choose either one or use both if you prefer.
Wobo.ai
Wobo.ai is a site we saw recommended frequently on places like Reddit. It starts the same way as Sonara and JobCopilot where you upload a resume and answer a bunch of questions about what you’re looking for to create what Wobo calls a “persona.” It then matches you with jobs based on your answers. Each job is given a “similarity score” based on your persona, giving you an idea of how well you match up with jobs before reading the description.
From there, Wobo does what the other two websites do. It can apply for your jobs automatically, using its persona profile of you to answer questions and all of that. Wobo not only surfs career pages, but also larger websites like BambooHR, Greenhouse, Lever, and more. We think this is the most thorough of the three when it comes to the job process, but it does take a little more work on the onset.
Getting a job with AI help
This is a relatively new niche for AI, so there isn’t a lot of data about how successful these tools can be. However, there is anecdotal evidence that AI, including chatbots and the aforementioned tools above, do work for some people if they’re used correctly. The key isn’t to let the AI do all the work, but to let it assist you in doing the work. After all, you know what you’re looking for and companies still want to hire humans and not the AI bots you control. So, the best practice appears to be to use the tools to your advantage, but don’t go overboard.
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