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Fast Company
03-06-2025
- Business
- Fast Company
How to use AI to find your next job
This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe here. I've been curious lately: How might AI help my former students—and so many others looking for new jobs—in a challenging and complicated market? My conclusion: AI tools can serve as patient assistants. They can help you organize your search, reflect on career goals, and convey your strengths persuasively. Whether you're pivoting careers or moving up in your field, here's how to leverage AI to stand out and land a great opportunity. 1. Explore career directions What it is: A career visualization tool. See a map of professional fields related to your interests. (See video demo below.) How to use it: Start by typing in a current or previous role, or a type of job that interests you, using up to five words. Then optionally add the name of an organization or industry. The free service then confirms job activities of interest and shows you a variety of related career paths. Pick one at a time to explore. You can then browse current job openings, refining the search based on location, company size, or other factors you care about. Example: I'm not job hunting, but I tested out the service by typing in 'journalist, writer, and educator' as roles and then 'journalism and education' as my industries of interest. See my quick video demo below to see the result. 👇 Why it's useful: I appreciate that Career Dreamer not only suggests a range of relevant fields, but also summarizes what a typical day in those jobs might be like. It also suggests skills you'll develop and other jobs that might follow on that career path. Next step: After exploring potential career paths and looking at available jobs, you can jump into Gemini—Google's equivalent of ChatGPT—for further career planning. Career Dreamer helpfully enables you to copy your career interests and skills—as a summary prompt to your clipboard. You can then jump to Gemini to paste that into a chat about your career plans. 2. Clarify your career priorities What it is: Gemini Gems are customized AI assistants. They are AI models tailored to be helpful in a specific context. One of the template Gems that Google created is a career guide. You can copy the Career Guide gem and edit it with your own professional interests. How to use it: Start by conducting a thorough 'soul-searching' reverse interview with Gemini. Rather than Gemini answering your questions, task it to ask you the questions. Have it consistently nudge you to dig deeper into your own preferences, attitudes, objectives, and needs. Then have it summarize what you've said. You'll get better at understanding and articulating your own career perspectives. Try this career self-interview prompt: Give this prompt to Gemini or another AI tool of your choice to conduct a reverse interview. As Gemini—or another AI assistant—interviews you, you'll develop a richer understanding of your own job preferences. Next steps: Use your Gemini Gem AI assistant throughout your job search to help clarify your own objectives and strengths, and to support you in developing your job search strategy. 3. Research target companies What it's useful for: Unlike typical AI chat queries, Deep Research requests enable an AI model to autonomously develop an exhaustive report after searching the Web, examining hundreds of sites and other research resources, and completing a detailed, multistep analysis. You can use these personalized reports to learn more about industries of interest and specific aspects of companies that intrigue you. How to use it: Toggle on the 'Deep Research' button in the ChatGPT box. Type a detailed query with your specific interests, skills, and the types of organizations you're curious about. Request a comprehensive table of relevant companies with detailed information about culture, growth trajectories, or whatever else. Benefits: Learn valuable context about companies you may apply to—and discover new organizations you weren't aware of. Use this research to tailor your applications and to prepare for interviews by understanding industry trends. Pricing note: You get five free Deep Research queries a month on ChatGPT's free plan, as of May 2025, or more on a paid plan. Gemini offers a good free Deep Research alternative. Perplexity also offers free Deep Research reports, though they're not as thorough. Alternative tools: Exa's Websets is a powerful—and pricey —new pro AI search tool that organizes results into a detailed table. It can draw on datasets like these, helping you identify great companies to target based on your own criteria. 4. Organize your search What it does: Lets you set up a dedicated AI folder for your career search. You can provide instructions and resource files so that every chat you have in this project takes into account the relevant context of your job search. How to use it: Provide detailed instructions for how you'd like the AI assistant to help. Try having it guide you in building a realistic timeline for preparing applications, sending follow-ups, and reaching out for informational interviews. Ask it to assist you in designing a structured daily job search agenda. If you're applying to many different positions and have lots of tasks to juggle, it can help to organize your plans. Advanced tactic: You can upload examples of your past outreach messages or other writings as project resources. That will enable the AI assistant to help you draft new emails in your own style, whether you're letting people know you're open to new opportunities or reaching out to new contacts. Organize your job search tasks: ChatGPT's ' Scheduled Tasks ' feature can help by sending you custom reminders. That could include an automated daily reminder of specific tasks to complete to maintain momentum. You can even ask it to periodically send encouraging messages to keep you inspired throughout what can be a lengthy, stressful process. Free alternative: ChatGPT's Projects require a paid plan, which starts at $20 per month. For a free alternative, create a Gemini Gem with similar functionality. 5. Polish your job application materials Recommended Tool: Claude Projects What it does: Gives you personalized AI assistance to help polish any materials you're creating. Give it specific instructions and upload background documents to ensure that it understands your preferences, strengths, and style. I have Claude Projects set up to assist with most of the things I work on, from new classes I'm developing to volunteering projects. Here's why I recommend this. How to use it: Upload past cover letters, résumés, lists of accomplishments, awards, vision statements, or anything else you've created that you might want to build on for a new application. In your project instructions, guide the AI to maintain your authentic voice as represented in your prior writings. Ask for feedback on writing you're submitting, with prompts that specify the kinds of input that will be most useful—from grammar, spelling, and syntax suggestions to warnings about exaggerations, clichés, jargon, or redundancy. Request suggestions for additional information to include, based on the job descriptions you're targeting. Using the personalized AI assistant for feedback allows you to highlight your unique human value, avoiding generic AI-generated content. Alternatives ChatGPT's Projects and Custom GPTs have similar functionality. You can add resource files and instructions to adjust how the AI assistants support you. Perplexity Spaces also allow you to organize prompt threads and add custom documents and instructions. Gemini Gems, noted above, offer a free alternative. I prefer the quality of Claude's responses and some of its features, like a custom editing style I've trained it to use. 6. Practice for interviews Recommended tool: ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode How to use it: Brainstorm interview questions specific to your target role, industry, and even the particular company you're applying to. Then practice answering these questions using voice mode for a realistic simulation. Build your confidence by practicing how you'll answer various questions. Read more about seven ways to use Advanced Voice Mode. Ask for detailed feedback on your responses. Prompt your voice assistant to highlight strong points and suggest areas for improvement. Ask it to be as specific as possible and to help you practice strengthening your responses. Ask it to help you prepare for whatever interview context you expect to encounter, from technical questions and case studies to fact-based questions or casual, open-ended lunch conversations. Pricing: Full access to ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode requires a paid plan, but free users can access a daily preview of advanced voice mode powered by a model slightly less advanced than the top paid models. Alternatives Microsoft Copilot Voice is now completely free. Choose from eight voices. You can even adjust the voice speed. I like Wave, with his British-sounding accent, at 1.25 speed. Gemini Live from Google is also an excellent voice AI assistant. Like ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode, it can even use computer vision to comment on something you show it. Initiate a conversation while pointing your phone camera at a company's leadership org chart, for example, or public balance sheet, or a list of questions you've handwritten. Bonus tip: If your job search involves speaking or understanding multiple languages, you can use these voice models to practice speaking or listening in any number of tongues. It's a great way to practice live language skills.
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AI tools from Google, LinkedIn, and Salesforce could help you find your next job
Sometimes, you need to shake things up in your career. Maybe the job isn't as fulfilling anymore. Maybe changing circumstances are pushing you toward a new path. Either way, figuring out what to do next can be a challenge. Housing market shift: 9 states where buyers are quickly gaining power Skype is shutting down. If you still use it, like I do, here are some alternatives The kerning on the pope's tomb is a travesty Increasingly, artificial intelligence is helping people explore their next steps—even when they're unsure themselves. Chatbots like ChatGPT can offer some guidance, provided you know how to phrase your questions. But several companies have developed specialized tools that focus specifically on this issue. Google is leading the pack with its Career Dreamer. Described as 'a playful way to explore career possibilities with AI,' it's a tool that anyone can use. To get started with Career Dreamer, you'll develop a 'career identity statement,' which outlines your skills and experiences. After sharing your current job, the AI will ask follow-up questions about what that role involved. You can also add details about your educational background and any careers, industries, or fields that interest you. Career Dreamer then suggests potential career paths based on your input. (For example, among its alternate career suggestions for me were communications/public relations specialist, communications professor, and market research analyst—along with several jobs in the reporting field.) Hovering your mouse over each suggested field provides information about the type of degree typically required, the experience you'll generally need, a description of the job, and—if you click through—the average salary. Find something that looks intriguing? You can click through to a list of local job opportunities or jump over to the Gemini AI tool to craft a résumé or cover letter. LinkedIn, meanwhile, offers the Next Role Explorer for users whose companies subscribe to its Learning Hub. That tool showcases potential opportunities within the company, suggests skills employees should develop, and shows how many openings exist in each role. It also displays the percentage of people who have successfully transitioned from the employee's current role to the new one. AI, for that service, acts as a career coach, offering recommended courses and career paths. It also helps employees stay on track as they work toward acquiring the skills needed for a new role. At Salesforce, the company rolled out Career Connect last September—an internal talent marketplace that uses AI to help employees create personalized career paths tailored to their skills and aspirations. The tool is embedded in Salesforce's Slack workflow. Employees can view roles they're currently qualified for, as well as positions where their skills are easily transferable. If a job catches their interest, they can apply directly within Slack. Early results, Salesforce says, have been extremely positive: Ninety-one percent of the roles that were filled went to participants in the Career Connect pilot program who discovered those opportunities through the tool. During the three-month trial, 28% of participants applied for jobs via the platform. Given the ongoing fears that AI will take people's jobs—freelance positions have already seen a 21% drop in demand—it's somewhat reassuring to see it also being used to help people find them. This post originally appeared at to get the Fast Company newsletter: Sign in to access your portfolio
Mint
01-05-2025
- Business
- Mint
How AI is helping job seekers pivot to new careers
Finding the job hunt challenging? AI might give you some ideas for pivoting to a completely different field. Career change isn't easy even in strong hiring markets. Candidates need to convince companies that their accomplishments in one field can apply to another—and that betting on someone without exact experience in a role will pay off. Increasingly, artificial-intelligence tools created by companies including Salesforce, Google and LinkedIn are helping workers sell their skills, tailor their résumés to new areas and identify under-the-radar roles. Other job hunters are using AI prompts to turn widely available chatbots into career coaches. Brooke Grant had been wanting a new role inside Salesforce when she heard of the company's new AI tool, Career Connect. It analyzes employees' skills and recommends roles internally that they might not have otherwise considered—as well as training programs to help them qualify for those positions. Grant, who studied communications and organizational psychology, had worked for a decade in a position called change management, helping colleagues adapt to new operational processes. She uploaded her résumé into Career Connect, and the AI tool visualized different paths forward. One was her own manager's role, showing her what the natural progression would be. One was a role in AI strategy, drawing from her experience with AI at a former company. And one was a 'sales enablement" job—making sure teams have the right tools to close deals and coaching them on techniques and the product. The AI tool identified her overlapping skills for this job. Though she had no sales experience, she contacted the hiring manager, while asking AI for guidance on how to pitch herself. A new online AI tool at Salesforce, Career Connect, analyzes employees' skills to recommend roles internally. 'I would have never ever even applied for this role if that didn't give me the confidence," she says. She got the job and started in March with a slight raise. AI tools are opening up potential new jobs that workers might not have otherwise considered, companies say. In some cases, the technology uses natural-language processing to understand what users want and compare it with potential opportunities. Google and LinkedIn have created products for external users. LinkedIn is releasing to premium subscribers a tool called Next Role Explorer, allowing them to look at jobs inside and outside their current companies as well as online-learning classes to help them land those jobs. At Google, Career Dreamer uses AI and labor-market data to serve up career possibilities to potential job-switchers. The company released the tool after searches for 'how to change jobs" hit a record level last year. Google's Career Dreamer uses AI to come up with career recommendations for potential job-switchers. Google says the free tool has had hundreds of thousands of U.S. users since it launched in February. (It directs users to Google Career Certificates, some of which cost a fee to enroll unless students do so through a school or other partner.) The tool doesn't save users' entries on their servers, only in web browsers, but uses Google Analytics to track overall activity on the program, the company says. For a user who said she was an accountant at a Big Four firm and noted skills in problem solving, auditing and financial reporting, Career Dreamer advised considering roles as a management consultant or regulatory-affairs specialist. The program suggested a middle-school teacher consider working as a corporate trainer. A link to Google's Gemini AI explained both roles 'require the ability to engage an audience, explain concepts clearly, manage group dynamics, and adapt to different learning styles." 'Most people either aren't conscious of the skills they have from the jobs they've done, or they don't know how to talk about it," says Lisa Gevelber, founder of Grow with Google, an education initiative that launched the Career Dreamer program. At this moment employers often prefer turnkey candidates vetted by their experience, campus career officers and recruiters say. 'In a hiring-hesitant market, you're going to go with the least risky candidate," says Stephanie Ranno, a former senior vice president of growth for TorchLight Hire, a recruiting and staffing firm. Companies looking to hire might have 200 to 500 candidates and will rank them using applicant-tracking systems that parse résumés for the most relevant experience. Ranno says she has held free career calls with job seekers whose fields aren't hiring right now—including former federal workers—and recommends that they use AI as an early step. They can upload their résumés to free AI tools like ChatGPT, with a detailed prompt with what they are looking for and their current hiring landscape, she says. Then, they can ask the program for a list of businesses, family foundations or nonprofits that value their experience or have hired people with those skills. 'You can get all of these ideas; you can get excited," Ranno says. Many early-career professionals enroll in M.B.A. programs to pivot into a new field. Harvard Business School this semester tested an AI tool for students and alumni that compares job seekers' résumés with their preferred roles and recommends online classes to bridge skills gaps. Using natural-language processing, it also shows users job opportunities that could work for them, as well as alumni who work there to contact. Rachel Fogleman, who is in the M.B.A. program at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University-Indianapolis, tried using AI for career input on her field of public health—one where many need to pivot following funding and program cuts. She spent about 10 hours over several days drafting and redrafting ChatGPT prompts that job seekers in the sector could use. 'You're still telling the same story of who you are but telling it in a way that someone in the private sector understands," she says. She put the prompts that got the best results on her LinkedIn page. Her first: 'You are a career coach assisting a recently laid-off who is pivoting from governmental public health employment to a private-sector job. Create a list of equivalent private-sector job titles." Users should ask the technology, she wrote, for three potential directly equivalent roles, three potential adjacent roles and three broader private-sector roles with transferable skills, as well as multiple companies hiring for each job title and a specified location. Fogleman says she doesn't expect ChatGPT to replace an actual career coach, but it is helpful in translating specialized skills to other industries—especially for people who can't afford a professional. For a public-health educator, like herself, AI suggested looking into corporate posts such as employee-wellness program coordinator and community-relations manager. Write to Lindsay Ellis at
Yahoo
19-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Google's AI can now tell you what to do with your life
Got a degree and no idea what to do with it? Google's newest AI feature can help. The company announced on Wednesday the release of Career Dreamer, an AI tool that can recommend careers that best suit you based on your experience, education, skills, and interests. Grow with Google | Career Dreamer The process begins with the user constructing a Career Identity Statement (CIS), which can be included in their resume or professional profile, by sharing the title of their current or previous professional position, such as 'freelance technology journalist' or 'Senior Editor — AI,' and the industry within which they work. Once entered, the AI will return a list of potential tasks performed in those positions for the user to choose from, like 'Research and analyze emerging technologies and trends' or 'Interview industry experts and thought leaders.' The user will then be prompted to select at least three skills, such as 'research,' 'self-motivation,' and 'editing' before the system activates Gemini to generate the CIS. In this writer's tests, Career Dreamer returned the following as my CIS: I am a technology journalist and content creator with a proven ability to translate complex technical information into engaging narratives for diverse audiences. Through interviews with industry leaders and in-depth research, I unpack emerging trends and technologies, crafting compelling multimedia content that informs and inspires. My adaptability, self-motivation, and time management skills allow me to thrive in the fast-paced media landscape. That's a good enough summation of what I do for a living, I suppose, if not a bit bland and sounding nothing like how I actually write. Still, it's a decent starting point for further iterations and revision, especially for people who aren't professional writers. The system then presents users with an idea cloud of related careers and positions, ranging from obviously related fields like Technical Writer and Copywriter, to nearly off-topic suggestions like becoming a Software Engineer or a Public Relations Specialist. Hovering your mouse over any of the ideas listed will pop a window that shows the typical minimum education and experience requirements as well as a link that navigates to the position's information page that lists the average salary, job responsibilities and offers for Google certifications that could help increase your chances of landing that job. 'We hope Career Dreamer can be helpful to all kinds of job seekers,' Google wrote in its announcement post. 'During its development, we consulted organizations that serve a wide range of individuals, such as students navigating their first careers, recent graduates entering the workforce, adult learners seeking new opportunities, and the military community, including transitioning service members, military spouses and veterans. If you're ready for a career change, or just wondering what's out there, try Career Dreamer.' The tool is free to use on Google Labs's Experimental site. Note, however, that while Career Dreamer can help you find a position that matches your skill set and interests, it will not actually show you active job listings for it. You'll still have to seek them out manually on the likes of Career Builder or LinkedIn.
