back in my day we had to write resumes and cover letters buy this thing called a pen and paper
back in my day we use chat gbt
all right although I'm joking for the most part in that intro there is some truth to
it we've come a long way very quickly and as text moving so quickly there are so many
new tools that will really help make the job hunting process so much easier land a better
job higher salary and all that and that's what we are going to cover today before we do though
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any questions or other tools that you have leave in the comments let's get into it
now we're going to start with a platform or an AI tool that does pretty much all the heavy lifting
for you I'm sure I'm not alone when saying when you are starting to craft a resume a lot of times
we end up just sitting there with this blinking cursor staring at the screen for what it feels
like or maybe hours not knowing where to start that is where tools like the one I'm about to
show you can really come in I'm not saying get an AI to completely write your entire resume and then
ship it off to companies but what I do think this tool or tools like this can really do to help you
is give you a starting point so using this tool to start writing your resume or even do a rough draft
of it taking that and then modifying it yourself this is great for anyone who has what is it called
writer's block writer's block isn't necessarily a writer to begin with you know you're applying
for maybe a technical role or whatever role you're applying for and you're just staring at the screen
okay let me share with you about this tool all right you can see here on screen I have kick
resume up and the first thing it's going to do after you sign up is ask you a series of questions
so right now we have what's your name question Tiff what was a recent job title software
developer and then you get to pick a template so let me zoom in here what template should we pick
I'm kind of gravitating towards the middle one let's pick the middle one here but also two as
you saw at the bottom there you could browse from other ones as well AI robots at work
better than me being at work all right so next up you can see here it literally will generate kind
of a template for you also too from there you can there are free aspects and then of course premium
aspects but honestly if you're job hunting and you need the help of uh setting up your resume
sign up and then not sign up when you don't need it anymore so we can see here add new
section there are different sections to choose from graphs references skills
etc etc personal information you can start filling that out adding a photo if you choose I'm not
really I don't add photos when I have the resume I don't know why I just not my my thing curious
to hear if you do though anyways overall this is a really great tool you can see examples of other
ones especially others that are close to what you are applying for um software engineering team
software engineer yeah so that's really helpful as well this is for I believe an intern but you
still get the idea of what others have done for when they are applying to roles similar
to you anyways I linked all these tools down below none of these are sponsored I just wanted to share
some really cool AI tools with you and uh cake resume is definitely one of them all right so
now once we have our resume created with the help of AI but then also too with our own human touch
we gotta still have the human touch there time start applying for jobs and I know many of you
are looking for remote jobs I found this really cool AI tool that will help match you based on
the remote jobs that are best suited for you and the name of this tool is really cool very suitable
I must say for remote jobs it's actually called pajama jobs and all you need to do is upload your
resume and it will sift through all the different online job platforms and match you with the ones
it thinks is best let me show you all right so you can see here on screen this pajama jobs that I was
speaking about is actually by the same company Kik resume that's why it has its logo there and that's
how I discovered pajama jobs so you don't need to use Kik resume to build your resume in order to
use pajama jobs to find your perfect remote job but that's one way you can and for me for this
example because I built my resume with kick resume you can simply upload it through Kik resume to
pajama jokes if that makes sense I'll link it down below I think I made it some more complicated than
it knew to be anyways once you are in pajama jobs it will ask you a series of questions questions
such as the salary you are looking for how senior you are where you are located even though it's all
remote jobs some remote Jobs still want you to be located in a certain country and for this example
here's what it's put out for me so 87 remote jobs and you can see here if I scroll down it says the
salary uh the range of mid to senior full-time and all of that so it's pretty interesting it
takes from all of these different job platforms so you don't need to spend your time sifting through
them you can come here and start using them now once again like Kik resume it's free and then
there's an upgraded version so this is just with the free version that's probably all I would do is
just use a free version have you been there when you are applying for jobs but nothing seems to
stick now this might be due to the market High competition many different factors but it also
might be due to the fact that AI is rejecting your resume Yes you heard that right A lot of times
especially at bigger companies the first initial us at your resume isn't a human it's actually AI
it's looking for specific keywords throughout your resume and if your resume even if you
are the perfect fit for this role but it does not have these keywords specific to this job that you
are applying for you might miss out on it that's where this tool comes in handy it will actually
scan your resume give you a score a percentage of how accurate your resume is or How likely it
is to pass through the initial AI test and from there give you suggestions on how to modify it
this tool is called job scan and I've used it in the past before and it's really I love it I
think it's super user friendly and it gives really good tips about keywords you can Implement let me
show you all right let's get into job scan I spoke about Job scan in the past because it's actually
a tool I used when I was job hunting it's I mean I think I shared this earlier but I think it's a
really great tool so I'm not going to go into the actual tool itself there is you can upload your
resume for free and there are certain parts that you will get for free but like anything like any
tool there's always a paid version they need to make money too but you can definitely use a free
version that's all I did you can sign up and scan your resume so you can see here in their diagram
though what it will do is it will share with you the match rate and this is based on the job
or type of job you are looking for and then also too it will share with you different keywords to
include uh different kind of descriptions you can add and then also too it shares with you
specifically in your resume areas that are weak and areas that are really good so in this example
you can see here contact info not so good whereas education match is good now I want to do a little
caveat here just because a tool is telling you something isn't good doesn't mean it's not good
let's make that very clear here AI is going based on logical data it's not going on human ways of
thinking so the reality is maybe AI doesn't think your education is a successful match but it might
be or maybe it's not a successful match but that's okay so don't get too much up on these things it's
just a really great tool to help enhance you when you are job hunting okay I have a confession to
make one of the areas I am the most laziest in is cover letters actually to be totally candid
with you about a year ago when I was applying to jobs 99.9 of them asked for a cover letter
I don't think I did any cover letters which is really bad and this is why I'm confessing it to
you because we're friends but it's true honestly I should have and I probably would have you
know seen faster job results or Job searches or interview whatever it was a good process knock on
wood knock on wood but at the end of the day cover letters are still really important and they are
needed and it really shows you when the extra mile when applying the reason I didn't do it is because
honestly I detest the idea of having to write a cover letter it just seems so I get writer's
blocked to a next the next level like I can't even think about writing a cover letter it just sounds
terrible but it's so important and it really shows that you want the extra mile so my biggest advice
and what I would do if I was job hunting all over again is use this AI tool to write my cover letter
for me then from there once again just like all these tools I would modify it to with the human
touch this tool I'm talking about is called coverdoc Ai and I'm going to share with you
what it can do in a second here but it promotes and I think it's truly accurate in saying you can
write cover letters up to 10 times faster or in cases for people like me a hundred times faster
alright I have up on screen here cover doc Ai and as I mentioned their whole Mantra one of it
is is you can write personalized cover letters 10 times faster or as I already mentioned 100
times faster if you are me let's watch this video here of the tool and kind of it in action actually
all right so we can see here create a cover letter and then from there take what you want
the title you want drop title company name they're getting very specific here about the jobs you're
literally taking the entire job description at this point copying it and pasting it into the job
description which is really great how customizable it can get all right let's see the output here
cover letter request is in progress you'll get an email of a draft which you can then open up
it opens up in a Google doc and there is your cover letter this is next level
it's so handy I'm definitely going to use this in the future it's just super user friendly uh
you know it says 20 minutes per cover letter you can get started for free as well this is just
really great I would highly recommend checking this out uh it's something that you can use to
varying degrees but just to not have this writer's block and in turn not create a cover letter like
I did you cleaned up your resume you applied to many jobs and now you got some really exciting
interviews you thought the hard part was the first part with writing the resume applying to jobs no
no no no no if you're anything like me the most stressful part at the very least is the interview
not even the interview but it's leading up to the interview I should say it's the nerves the
anxiety the fear of failure especially when you were doing a technical interview that is where
tools that can really help you practice your interview skills both soft skills and technical
skills are key and of course there are tools that we are all familiar with especially from
the technical side such as leak code or different sites where you can practice algorithms however
if you are looking for a tool to kind of interview you if that makes sense like you're it's a two-way
conversation I would highly suggest checking out this tool it's called interview warm-up and it's
actually by Google and there are different roles that you can select that it will interview you
for now there are still some that are missing I think there's a lot of key roles but still a ton
of key roles that are missing from this tool so what I would do if your role isn't there select
something that's similar because at the beginning of these interview warm-ups these uh tools or this
tool that it interviews you with it's a lot of personable questions which I think especially
if you are applying for a technical role we often kind of push off the tech the soft skill side and
focus so much on preparing for the technical side of the interview which is key of course but you
also need to put some thought and prepare to the soft skill side because if they are interviewing
you and for these questions you didn't prepare on the soft skill side you start freezing up they're
gonna be like well yeah they're a great coder but they don't have communication skills they don't
have Team skills so this is a great tool for you let me show you all right this tool by Google as
I mentioned interview warm up I've used in the past and it just even helps take out take me
from psyching myself out do you know what I mean like being able to practice the interview and just
feel more confident going into it if anything so you can see here let's go into start practicing
and then from there you can say what field do you want to practice for so we have data analytics
e-commerce IT project management ux cyber security in general so once again if your role or your
field is not here you can always go to General after five interview questions you can start
hi let's practice an interview what are you looking for in your next job
okay I can't do this right now don't listen to me oh no it's gonna answer okay yeah you can
literally speak to it so what are you looking for in your next job you can click on answer with the
microphone and speak back this is so key I know it sounds so silly but the more you practice speaking
your answers out loud the better you will be during the interview process I can guarantee
this this is a free tool by Google interview warm up go check it out all right I hope you found this
video useful and helpful and hopefully picked up some tips or tools that you can use for the next
time you are job hunting AI doesn't have to be this big scary thing that we put off using because
we think that it's going to take over our jobs or it's not as good you can
use it for Snippets of your everyday life such as job hunting and still add
your personal touch your human touch to it all right once again leave any
questions or comments you have down below and I'll see you all soon thanks everyone
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