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How do I write a résumé and cover letter with AI?

After 10 years away, former lawyer Santiago Barraza Lopez used ChatGPT to tailor his résumé, draft cover letters and run mock interviews, and was hired within two months.

Steps

  1. Give the AI your current résumé plus the job description you're targeting.
  2. Ask it to rewrite the résumé for that job with action verbs and real, quantified results.
  3. Remove anything it invents. Every number and claim must be true.
  4. Ask for a cover letter that links two or three of your achievements to the job's requirements.
  5. Run a mock interview for that role and ask for feedback.

Prompts

AgentPlays template Written by AgentPlays because the source doesn't publish an exact prompt we could quote. Fill in the [brackets].

Here is my résumé and a job description. Rewrite my résumé for this job: lead with the most relevant experience, use action verbs, and quantify results only where my résumé gives the numbers. Don't invent anything; list questions where you need facts from me. Then draft a 200-word cover letter linking 3 of my achievements to the job's top requirements.

Résumé: [paste]
Job description: [paste]

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