Resume, cover letter, work email, and interview prep with AI.
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Job hunting is one of the highest-ROI use cases for AI — every application needs personalization, and you do it under time pressure. This hub collects reusable prompts for resumes, cover letters, work emails, interview prep, and salary negotiation. Each piece shows the shortest path "from zero to submitted" — not abstract claims that AI can help.
New to this hub? Read these three first to get a complete workflow:
Use ChatGPT or Claude to rewrite your resume into something that passes ATS filters, matches the target JD, and survives a 20-second recruiter scan — with the prompt, the refinement loop, and the failure modes.
A cover letter is not a resume in prose. Here is a copy-paste prompt that gets AI to write the version a recruiter actually finishes — plus the 3-round refinement loop that strips the AI tone.
Send a 130-word follow-up that recalls one specific moment from the interview and ties it to one concrete contribution — not the 'thank you for your time' template the hiring manager has read 200 times this month.
Send a 130-word follow-up that recalls one specific moment from the interview and ties it to one concrete contribution — not the 'thank you for your time' template the hiring manager has read 200 times this month.
Read between the lines of a JD with AI — separate real must-haves from buzzwords, map your background, surface honest gaps, and predict interview questions.
Turn a blank LinkedIn About (or 2019 buzzword soup) into a recruiter-scannable 4-paragraph bio with positioning, two real numbers, and a specific 'open to' line — in 20 minutes.
Turn a Friday's worth of messy notes, half-Slacks, and unresolved decisions into a 200-word manager update your boss reads in 2 minutes — with the one ask buried where they'll see it.
Reach out without sounding spammy — specific, short, asks for one thing.
Walk into your 20-minute 1:1 with 3 priority-ranked bullets, one specific ask, and a predicted follow-up question — instead of letting your manager drive the whole 'how's it going.'
Send a 130-word follow-up that recalls one specific moment from the interview and ties it to one concrete contribution — not the 'thank you for your time' template the hiring manager has read 200 times this month.
Read between the lines of a JD with AI — separate real must-haves from buzzwords, map your background, surface honest gaps, and predict interview questions.
Turn a blank LinkedIn About (or 2019 buzzword soup) into a recruiter-scannable 4-paragraph bio with positioning, two real numbers, and a specific 'open to' line — in 20 minutes.
Turn a Friday's worth of messy notes, half-Slacks, and unresolved decisions into a 200-word manager update your boss reads in 2 minutes — with the one ask buried where they'll see it.
Reach out without sounding spammy — specific, short, asks for one thing.
Walk into your 20-minute 1:1 with 3 priority-ranked bullets, one specific ask, and a predicted follow-up question — instead of letting your manager drive the whole 'how's it going.'
Turn a folder of half-remembered wins and one nagging gap into a calibrated, balanced performance review draft — for yourself or a report — in 20 minutes.
Turn a year of design docs, launches, and metrics into a 600-word promotion packet that reads like impact at the next level — not a chronological task log.
Practise salary talk with an AI recruiter — anchor cleanly, defend with data, hold your minimum — and learn where you waver before the real call.
Write a self-intro that doesn't sound like everyone else's — 1 line background + 2 metrics-anchored highlights + 1 line on why this role — timed to 60 seconds.
For every STAR story, generate 5 likely interviewer follow-ups ranked by depth — then drill the ones where you hesitate.
Turn a frustrated 11pm Slack draft into a sendable message that names the issue, makes the specific ask, and doesn't burn the bridge — with 3 tone variants to match the person.
Turn scattered notes into a 10-slide work presentation outline — one message, three supporting points with evidence, slide titles a stranger can scan, and a concrete CTA.
A cover letter is not a resume in prose. Here is a copy-paste prompt that gets AI to write the version a recruiter actually finishes — plus the 3-round refinement loop that strips the AI tone.
Turn raw work experience into 3 structured STAR interview answers (Situation / Task / Action / Result) — plus the follow-up questions to rehearse, with a copy-paste prompt template.
Use ChatGPT or Claude to rewrite your resume into something that passes ATS filters, matches the target JD, and survives a 20-second recruiter scan — with the prompt, the refinement loop, and the failure modes.