Using AI for Your Job Search: CV, Cover Letters and Interview Practice
Use AI to tailor and tighten what’s true about you, and to practise. Never let it invent experience: employers check, and interviews expose it.
Tailor your CV
Paste your CV summary and a job advert, and ask for a rewrite using only what’s there. Our CV summary prompt does exactly this and lists the advert’s keywords to check.
Cover letters
Ask for a 200-word letter that connects your real experience to three requirements in the advert. Then rewrite the opening in your own voice: generic AI openings are easy to spot.
Practise interviews
Use the mock interview prompt: one question at a time, with feedback.
Stay organised
Ask AI to turn your applications into a tracking table: company, role, date, status, next step.
Don’t invent skills, dates or qualifications. Check spelling of names. Don’t paste other people’s private data. Be honest if an employer asks about AI use.
What to try next
Browse the prompt vault (Jobs & CV category).
Sources
- General guidance written by Silent Overseer.
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