How AI can help you land jobs and grow in your career ?
Mohammed Sameer G
Product Owner @ ETAS | Driving Continuous Delivery and Deployment
ChatGpt for Career Growth
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In today’s post, I step into the AI sphere exploring how you can use Generative AI for your career growth.
What is Generative AI ?
If you have not been living under the rock, you probably heard about ChatGpt and OpenAI.
Generative artificial intelligence also generative AI or GenAI is artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images, or other media, using generative models. These models learn the patterns and structure of their input training data and then generate new data that has similar characteristics.
Treat it as an extremely smart personal assistant with good public domain knowledge and a strong learning proficiency with ability to learn things very fast. you would then ask - Why use it ?
Importance of Using AI
In today's fast-paced and highly competitive job market, staying ahead of the curve is essential.
Keeping up with the latest tech developments is not a luxury but a necessity.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a game-changer, revolutionising various aspects of the professional world.
More than anything, it can enhance your Efficiency hugely - Who does not like an Intelligent personal assistant who can help and guide you?
AI can automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks, allowing professionals to focus on more strategic, creative, and value-added activities. This boosts efficiency and productivity in the workplace
Case in point - I generated 90% of this section and wrote the remaining 10% reflecting my personality.
Keeping up with the latest tech developments is not a luxury but a necessity.
Some you would ask, Isn’t AI dangerous ?
I answer - really ?
okay, first let’s understand how it works !
More than anything, it can enhance your Efficiency hugely - Who does not like an Intelligent personal assistant who can help and guide you?
Understanding ChatGPT
ChatGPT is a powerful AI model developed by OpenAI that excels in understanding and generating human-like text.
It has been trained with huge data sets of public domain information, which equips it with a lot of data. Data, that can help you answer stuff you are not aware.
Simply put, it's Public Domain Data + whatever input you give.
Unless you don’t share private information and don’t mess with the model in an unethical way, there is nothing to be scared of.
How can it help me ?
Let’s now see how it can help.
It facilitates interactive and dynamic conversations - like a smart coach and consultant, who won't charge you a penny.
Its capabilities and applications include
If I have managed to convince you to try it out, Lets now look at a few applications concretely. Firstly let’s see how to setup ?
How to setup ChatGpt
ChatGpt is free to use - the GPT3.5 model is free, while the more advanced GPT4.0 goes with monthly subscription fee.
Just follow the below 3 steps
Let’s now look at the applications.
1. Write Effective Documentation
If you are a student, you have gone through the painful process of getting your academic documentation ready - like Statement of Purpose etc…
ChatGpt can ease this for you, here is an example prompt
Generate a Statement of Purpose for me, I am a Software Engineer with 5 years of work experience and aspiring to apply for a Masters of Business Degree at Oxford University.
It generated an awesome SOP with this limited information.
You can improve this prompt further by adding more information in the prompt - ie: your achievements and motivation. This makes the output more precise.
You can also go through a number of iterations by asking it to improve it further by adding more context information.
If you are a job seeker, you can slightly alter this and generate a cover letter for your next job.
A strong advice would be to use this generated output only as a base and further improve it by adding your personality and motivation.
Remember to use the output as a base and treat AI as a smart assistant. Don’t use the output as it is.
2. Help in filtering universities, companies to apply
Choosing right universities for your education, right companies for your next job is often a painstaking experience. Confusion and often lack of information lead in bad/incorrect decisions.
ChatGpt can help you shortlist and organise universities if you are student,
An example prompt
Can you suggest me 3 sets of universities, Ambitious, Matching and Easy for my profile to apply for a Master in Business Degree in the UK ?
Once again, you can add more context by providing details of your profile.
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The same can be done to shortlist and finalise companies to apply for a Job.
Here is a sample prompt
Can you suggest me 3 sets of companies - Ambitious, Matching, Safe that I can apply. I am a MBA Grad with 10 years of work experience in software industry
3. Elevate your career profile by refining your resume
Resume is the index document for any process. It introduces you to the organisation you are applying for. It is important the document is in the best form.
You can find great resume templates online for free but you need to creatively fill it with your data. ChatGpt can help you here.
Here is a sample prompt that can help you beautify your resume
Refine my resume to match to the job Product Owner at the Company Microsoft
You can continue the discussion with the AI to improve the quality of output.
Alternately, You can upload resume if you are using an appropriate ChatGpt model (the one that supports upload) and get an improved version or suggestions as text.
4. Career Advice and consultation
As a job seeker or a student, we often get a lot of advice. The problem is - it could be inefficient, incorrect, not up-to-date so on and so forth.
Right advice is important to take right decisions, ChatGpt can help you with effective data driven advice which is personalised and relevant.
Here is an example prompt
I am contemplating to do an MBA in X Country which will cost me 30000 Dollars, I am currently working at X Company and draw a salary of 10000 Dollars an year and have a savings of 10000 Dollars, I am married and have a kid and I am based out of X Place, what do you suggest me to do ?
Of course this is just based on the data and your inputs. It might/not apply to you.
For Eg: Here is part of ChatGPT’s answer.
Deciding to pursue an MBA is a significant decision, and it's essential to carefully consider your financial situation and personal circumstances before committing to such an investment. Here are some factors to consider:
Total Cost: You mentioned that the cost of an MBA in the UK is $30,000. It's important to determine if this amount covers tuition, living expenses, and any other associated costs like books, materials, and health insurance. Make sure you have a clear understanding of the overall financial commitment.
Current Financial Situation: Your current annual salary of $10,000 may not be sufficient to cover the MBA expenses, especially if you have a family to support. Additionally, if you're planning to leave your job to pursue the MBA, you'll need to account for the loss of income during your studies.
Savings: Having $10,000 in savings is a good start, but it's important to assess whether this will be enough to cover the costs of the MBA program and to support your family during your studies.
Scholarships and Financial Aid: Look into scholarship opportunities, financial aid, or grants offered by the MBA program or external organizations. Many universities provide financial support to international students, and this can help alleviate some of the financial burden.
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It's crucial to create a detailed budget, taking into account all potential income sources, expenses, and expected financial aid. Make sure you have a clear plan for how you'll cover your MBA expenses, support your family, and handle any unexpected costs that may arise.
Ultimately, the decision to pursue an MBA should be made with a full understanding of your financial situation and a plan to mitigate the financial challenges that come with it. Consider consulting with a financial advisor or education counselor to get personalized advice based on your specific circumstances.
As you can read from the answer, it is very objective, structured and useful - which is a big take away.
This will help you consider things realistically.
5. Help with coding exercises, simulate interviews
One of the awesome use cases of ChatGpt has to be its brilliance in answering text based and machine readable questions.
Here is an example
Can you generate 2 sample coding exams for interviews at Google as software Engineer
and here is part of ChatGpt generated output
Certainly! Here are two sample coding interview questions that are suitable for a Google software engineer interview:
Sample Coding Interview Question 1:
Problem Statement: Reverse a Linked List
Write a function to reverse a singly linked list. You should return the reversed list.
Example: Input: 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 Output: 5 -> 4 -> 3 -> 2 -> 1
These questions are designed to test your ability to work with data structures and algorithms, which are commonly assessed in technical interviews for software engineering positions at companies like Google. Remember to consider edge cases and optimize your solutions for both time and space complexity. Good luck with your interview preparation!
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What is awesome is it also generates answers so you can validate them against yours.
Conclusion
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