I am currently on a job search and attended a zoom panel with a few career coaches. One of them said that if you’re not currently using LLMs on the job search right now, you should be, and she gave a few cursory examples like customizing responses and notes, but I’m still not entirely sure what the actual applications are beyond making translating your emails into glib redditese. At the same time, bullshit still appears to still be king, and, if ChatGPT confers a competitive advantage, it doesn’t make sense to tie an arm behind my back. So has anyone used an LLM to help land a job, and, if so, how?
I had someone ask me to ‘just ChatGPT’ them a recommendation letter. Not sure if they meant create the entire thing using ChatGPT. Knowing them, probably. I ended up writing it up on my own, but did run it through DeepSeek and honestly I can see how it could be useful in the way you are describing here.
I just hate that everyone seems to be using it more as a replacement for doing the actual work. Not that you can blame them with how magical all of these tech bros try to make it seem.