Land the job with AI
Use AI to tailor your resume for ATS, write cover letters and outreach, sharpen LinkedIn, practice interviews and research pay, without sounding like a robot.
- ATS keywords
- resume writing
- cover letters
- LinkedIn profile
- interview practice
- salary research
- job search strategy
Resume and ATS keywordsHow applicant tracking systems read resumes, and how to match a job post honestly.14 lessons
- How an ATS reads your resume
- Run the plain-text test on your resume
- What really gets resumes rejected
- Show up when recruiters search
- Find the keywords a job description cares about
- Make a keyword table with AI
- Add only keywords that are true
- Write strong resume bullets: the X-Y-Z formula
- Give AI your raw facts
- Put your matching bullets first
- The three tells of an AI-tailored resume
- Start a master resume
- Tailor with a no-invention prompt
- Read it out loud before you send
Cover letters and outreachCover letters, cold emails and LinkedIn messages that sound like you and get replies.9 lessons
- A cover letter worth reading: four parts that prove fit
- When to send a cover letter, and how long
- Draft your cover letter with AI, from real material
- The editing pass: cut what could go to any company
- Cold messages: who to contact and what to ask
- The four-part cold message
- Personalize with one real detail, then draft with AI
- LinkedIn connection notes in two sentences
- Follow up once, then move on
LinkedIn that recruiters findA headline, About section, skills and posts that show up in recruiter searches.9 lessons
- Write a LinkedIn headline recruiters find
- Ask AI for five headlines, then check them
- Your About section: win the first three lines
- Show Open to Work to recruiters only
- Match the words: titles, dates and skills
- Rewrite your experience in your own voice
- Fix your profile basics
- Draft a LinkedIn post with AI
- Write the first line of your post yourself
Interview practice with AISTAR stories, mock interviews and company research, practiced with AI.15 lessons
- Tell a work story in STAR order
- Pick 6 to 8 stories you can reuse
- Shape your notes into STAR with AI
- Check the AI's STAR story against your notes
- Put the weight on Action and Result
- Run a mock interview with AI
- Ask for one fix at a time
- Practice out loud with voice mode
- Research the company: six things and where to find them
- Prepare "why this company" and "why you"
- Ask good questions at the end
- Answer "How do you use AI?" in an interview
- Build your AI answer from one real task
- What not to claim about AI
- Handle AI interviewers and screeners
Salary research and negotiationFind your market rate from real sources and negotiate the offer.8 lessons