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So I have a slightly different experience here. When I lost my job recently I actually ended up signing up for ChatGPT plus. I abused the ever living hell out of 4o to crank out tailored cover letters and matching resumes. I was able to roughly triple my job search productivity until I got a job three months later.
Was it worth it? For that timeframe (3 months, $60) hell yeah since the mental labor of handcrafting cover letters for each job listing is extremely taxing and takes some of the awfulness out of the entire job hunt.
Can you share a bit about how you used it? I've used Copilot a bit to try the same thing, but it makes so many errors that I spend too much time editing and fixing them. Also, after running quite a few cover letters, I found that the text was repetitive and unnatural in a way that made it really obvious that it was an LLM writing the letter and not a person.
It helps when you've fed a few that you've made by hand to start in the same thread for it to use as an example (and format), along with one of your resumes. Then copy and paste the job description and have it generate a cover letter for you.
Keep it all in one massive thread, if it makes a mistake, correct it and tell it to apply those changes to future ones as well (in my case it kept saying I had over ten years of experience when in actually I just had ten, so I had to correct that behavior).
Since it's an AI it will sometimes hallucinate, this usually happens if there are terms in the job description that aren't in your resume... either have it regenerate (if it will take more than a few minutes to edit) or strip out the offending sentences. Some will need very little editing, especially if the job description closely aligns with what you have on your resume.
Oh and be polite because it now knows all your skills and can probably murder you in your sleep lol
Thanks, I'm guessing the benefit of subscribing is to create that persistent relationship. The free version from MS that I'm using times out after a while. I definitely get the problem of it making up experience for me when it encounters something in a job description that isn't referenced anywhere in my info. Honestly, I'd probably get more interviews if I just let it make up stuff, but I'm guessing that might become a problem for me later. :)