All Content from Business Insider | 6 mistakes job seekers should avoid when using AI for résumés, cover letters, and networking by Madison Hoff

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AI can help job seekers with résumés, cover letters, and networking.Still, there are some things to avoid when using ChatGPT and other AI tools.Job-search experts say to be detailed in your prompts and to review and edit what the tools suggest.Before throwing a résumé draft into ChatGPT or asking another AI tool to craft a message to hiring managers, job seekers should avoid a few things.

"I never used the wording ChatGPT spit out, but I definitely used it to figure out where I was lacking in useful information and where I had too much," one person said in response to a Business Insider poll asking how job seekers are using AI. Another person said they used it to create thank-you messages that draw on information from the company's website, like the employer's values. Another use was comparing résumés to job descriptions.

Don't give tech full control and lose the human touchDon't forget to fact-checkDon't just use whatever style or sentence structure it gives youDon't be broad in your input to AI toolsAvoid overusing generic buzzwords in résumés, cover letters, and even networkingDon't make cold, overused outreach messagesRead the original article on Business Insider

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