July 15, 2025 • 18 mins
AI isn’t just for tech roles or automation; it’s a powerful tool for anyone looking to grow, pivot, or future-proof their career. In this episode, Jill discusses using AI to enhance strategic thinking, prep for interviews, and strengthen your job search.
You’ll learn:
- How to use AI to identify transferable skills and tailor your resume
- Why most people write bad prompts, and how to fix that
- Smart ways to integrate AI into your career planning and professional brand
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, welcome to the Career Refresh.
Listen, whether you arethinking about a reinvention,
refining your executive presenceor building a team that thrives
, this is where we're going totalk about the guidance and
insights you need in order tomake that happen.
I'm Jill Griffin, I'm anexecutive coach, I am a
strategist and I'm a formermedia executive.
(00:21):
I spent the last 25 yearsworking my way up and through
the ranks of multiplecorporations and startups and
working with the world's topbrands and leading teams through
strategic growth, throughtransition, through
communications planning all ofthe above.
Today, I help high performersand their teams align their
strengths and really tackle boththe team dynamics and the
(00:44):
organizational goals so thatthey can thrive in today's
workplace, which isever-changing, and that's what
we're also talking about todaychange.
Today, we're talking aboutsomething that is exciting,
confusing, scary.
All of the above AI.
Ai in the job search and in theworkplace.
More specifically, it's abouthow to stay relevant, grow your
(01:05):
career and lead with intention.
That in a world that isshifting really fast, and we
want you to stay relevant, solet us dig in, okay, whether
you're job searching, managing ateam or thinking about your
next big move, there's a lot ofnoise around AI and it is
absolutely shifting how you work.
That is not new to you, you'vealready heard that.
(01:27):
But it's thinking about that.
Tasks are being automated andjob descriptions are evolving.
It's creating questions like isthis going to replace me?
What do I need to learn here?
Do I have to learn code?
And how does staying relevantin this moving goalpost
marketplace what does it looklike?
The bottom rung of the careerladder, as it's being called?
(01:47):
Right, the knowledge worker?
That shift is happening, butthat was happening before this
explosion of AI.
Right, covid impacted thehiring and nurturing of young
professionals too.
So these entry-level roles dataanalysis, research, even
copywriting are definitely beingrestructured and AI is
absorbing the task.
Research, even copywriting, aredefinitely being restructured
and AI is absorbing the tasks,but it doesn't mean it's
replacing humans, or I shouldsay, yet it's replacing the
(02:10):
tasks.
So we need to be thinking aboutthat.
It's a recalibration and how wewant to shift.
So, whether that means evolvingearly career, or what success
mid-career looks like, or ifyou're further along in your
career, I want you to bethinking about new ways of being
indispensable, and that isabout creating the through line
(02:32):
of relevance.
Right, it's not about knowingevery single tool and every
single software out there.
It's about how to use themwisely and think differently.
Listen, I have a client rightnow who is using AI to train
herself on AI, meaning she issaying, based on her career,
what does she need to know?
And AI has written her a planof what she needs to do each
(02:52):
week over the next six weeks toget up to speed on something.
You could do that too.
You could absolutely do thattoo.
So I want to talk about whatI'm saying.
I'm going to say like eightsmart ways to use AI and stay
relevant.
The first is I want you to thinkabout how it's impacting your
industry specifically.
Right, you're hearing aboutthings around tech and
engineering.
Well, if you don't do that fora living, that's just kind of
(03:14):
feels like overwhelm and fearfor fear's sake.
So I want you to get clear.
If you are in tech, right, itis absolutely accelerating the
way code is generated, bugdetection and even QA, testing
and entry-level roles.
They are definitely beingcompressed, but platforms are,
you know, using moreboilerplates.
(03:36):
Like you know, a GitHub copilot, right, is reducing the need
for junior engineers because itis actually giving you more
boilerplates.
But you want to be thinkingabout how you want to focus more
on systems thinking, productintuition and product design and
also architecture.
So you're in finance, right,where analysts used to spend
hours pulling and cleaning dataand making sure we had data
(03:59):
hygiene right, doing that inExcel.
Well, now, obviously, ai issummarizing those reports and
flagging anomalies much faster,but the work again doesn't go
away.
It's about understanding thestrategic insight and
communications that are moreimportant than ever.
If you're in product, thinkingabout AI is influencing roadmaps
and how roadmaps are beingprioritized.
(04:21):
Teams are using AI to analyze,you know, usage patterns,
customer feedback, competitorbehavior and data you should be
thinking about.
It's about not the code, buthow you can connect the dots
between discovery, design andtesting.
That's an opportunity withinproduct where you can use AI
(04:42):
tools but still put the humanthinking on things.
And then again, I can't gothrough every industry, but if
you're, you know, in somethingaround advertising or marketing
or sales, right, there'sobviously they're using it for
copy and A-B testing.
But the shift where we stillneed strategists to be the
editor, to curate the ideas andnot just be the creator, it's
(05:04):
like it's not about coming upwith everything.
It's about coming up with theright things.
So that's just some of the waysthat I'm seeing AI impact the
job descriptions and the actualdepartment.
Second thing I want you to thinkabout is that, using AI as a
co-pilot I call it the secondbrain.
I've also heard other peoplecall it that right, it's like
(05:25):
you're the driver.
Ai is the GPS.
So if you're using it tobrainstorm, summarize, draft or
prep, you're using your ownjudgment.
It's just how it scales you,it's not how it replaces you.
And then there are extensionswhere you can add on to Chrome
to make sure that when you'recreating something, you can say
is this AI generated?
You can drop it in there andactually be able to see does
(05:47):
this sound like blah, blah, blah, you know very anodyne and very
rote, or does it sound like youcan use AI as an outline and
then put in your own human touchon it?
We're not looking forperfection.
We're not looking to makeeverything.
I mean, you see it.
You see it.
If you scroll sites, especiallylike LinkedIn, or if you're on
Substack, you see when somethingis AI generated, because I feel
(06:09):
like the heart and soul hasbeen taken out of the document
or the content and you're justsort of like, yeah, right, so we
don't want to sound flat orbland.
It's like if you ever read likea Wikipedia.
You don't want to sound likethat.
But we also can have reallyflowery language.
Or AI always writes in thiscontrast where it'll always say
(06:32):
like it's not about blah, it'sabout blah.
That's an AI giveaway.
For some reason, someone decidedthat everything has to be a
compare and contrast.
It's a great way of seeing ifAI is being used.
So don't do that.
Right?
You want to make sure that ifyou give AI a generic prompt,
(06:54):
it's going to give you genericcontent, right?
The model can't guess thecontext.
That's what it needs you tobring to the situation.
So giving it a clear personawhen you're asking questions,
that matches the task.
So asking things that are basedon your tone, brand and voice
and style.
You can even ask in AI, basedon everything I've put in here,
what is my tone and style, andsee what it spits back to you.
(07:17):
If you agree with that, thenwhen you write in the future,
you're giving it a prompt thatsays and you know, make it crisp
, make it strategic, make itwitty, whatever your tone and
style is, that you can put inthere.
So for acting for like, ifyou're going for a marketing job
, you want to be thinking aboutasking a question like act like
(07:38):
a conversion psychologist whowrites landing page that
triggers buyer emotion right,that is going to give you a
level of specificity that youdidn't expect before.
If you're in data, asking itjust for generic storytelling
based on the data okay, right,you know, just for generic
(07:59):
storytelling based on the dataOkay, right, but you want to
skip to act like a storytellinganalyst that is turning metrics
into slides for the board rightFor the board presentation.
Asking it that level ofspecificity.
That is when you're asking itspecific, the more tailored, the
more strategic, the more usefulit is and it's not going to
sound rote, all right.
Next, focusing on use cases,there is thinking about how to
(08:25):
use AI.
I want you to also start withcuriosity.
There is a gentleman namedRuman Hassad.
I'll put his link in the shownotes.
He's on LinkedIn and I findthat he puts out a lot of really
good content and ways ofthinking about things
differently and writing reallygood prompts.
So, if you're in marketing, useAI to generate 10 subject
(08:45):
emails Sure, fine, but have it.
Summarize the customer reviewsthat you see to spot trends that
you can act on.
If you're in HR obviously usingAI to draft the first level of
the job description and analyzesort of the tone from exit
interviews, employee engagementstudies how are you pulling all
that together to get ahead ofany questions that might be
(09:07):
asked for you during the searchprocess?
It can be sure, summarizingpages of data, but also asking
it to prep the you know, thequarterly meeting notes, or
using concise commentary.
Or, if you have to go to anearnings call, have you ever
provided data for an earningscall?
(09:28):
It can be quite terrifying, sobeing able to ask it that right,
right.
So the specific questions.
And then, if you're in productor innovation or tech, asking it
what-if scenarios?
Right, and see if you couldpressure test your thinking and
thinking about things indifferent ways.
You also may want to thinkabout context, for how do I
(09:51):
think about this in three, sixand 12 months?
Right, asking it.
How do I think about, you know,building a RACI or a RACI?
Right, responsible, accountable, consulted, informed.
How do I think about that forthe key stakeholders?
Right, different ways of usingAI with curiosity and focusing
on like use cases.
(10:12):
Next, I want you to think abouthow you might audit your
transferable skills.
So, if you're using AI to pivotor reinvent and help you find a
new position, you might compareyour resume to the job posting
and see where it overlaps.
You might also want to help it,help you reframe your
experience to use in languagethat still feels authentic to
(10:33):
you but also hits on thekeywords and phrases that are in
the resume excuse me, that arein the job description, so that
you could use those both on yourresume and, if it requires a
cover letter, your cover letter.
Right, if things feel good andtrue, you may also want to
pepper in that language intoyour LinkedIn profile, making
sure that it's consistent.
You never want a situation inwhich your resume says one thing
(10:55):
and your LinkedIn profile sayssomething that feels unaligned,
because people are going to belike okay, will a real Jill
please stand up.
They're not going to know whereit is.
Next thing, I want you to thinkabout AI for simulating real
world scenarios.
This is going to take practice,but it's low key, right?
So you might ask AI to run amock interview with you and,
(11:18):
based on this job description,your resumes, what questions
might it ask you?
Right, asking you questions, orask it to be tough on you and
ask you questions.
Right, this is going to helpbuild your reflexes and make you
sharper and be thinking itthrough ahead of time.
You may also ask it tointerview you from different
styles right Structured.
You may also ask it tointerview you from different
styles right Structured,unstructured, semi-structured,
(11:39):
behavioral or situational right.
You could even prompt it forasking you on a panel interview
or include the titles of thecast of characters that might be
there.
So, again, that you canpractice not only the questions
but some of the answers based onyour resume.
Again, we're not lying here.
This has to be authentic and ithas to be you.
Next, I want you to experiment,but I want you to know the
(12:02):
guardrails.
So there's a lot ofconversation in a lot of my HR
and CIO circles where people aregetting a little bit nervous.
I just had a conversation of ageneral counsel of a law firm oh
boy.
So before you copy and pastecompany data into a chatbot,
make sure you're aware of yourcompany's actual AI policies.
If you're in those positions,make sure that people know where
(12:23):
to find them, because you canuse AI responsibly, maybe for
drafts and some ideation, butnot for confidential work unless
it's been secured and approvedby your company's policy.
And I'll tell you a littlepersonal story here.
Right, I was writing aframework for work and I was
(12:44):
using AI to help me.
Like, sometimes it was a littlebit wordy, so I was like making
this crisp, make this concisehow would you say this through
this lens and making it better,right?
So I was using it to fine tunesomething.
That scene Well, someonescheduled a perspective
appointment with me and theyknew information that I hadn't
(13:04):
made public.
So the stuff that I was usingto fine tune, they actually knew
that.
They shared with me what theypulled out of AI and what AI
said about me.
And it was really funny, right.
The prospective client saidthey found me because of the
prompts they were using and itdelivered me.
So, yay, awesome.
But it also made me someone Iwasn't and it took the
(13:28):
information that I was finetuning and put it out there,
right.
So there's enough informationabout me between public content,
this podcast, newsletter,social, but this was funny that
it actually mixed all thosethings together and this new
pieces.
So, look, it's just my way ofsaying nothing is private,
nothing is confidential, so useit with care.
(13:49):
Okay, next, I want you to thinkabout the obvious, about saving
time, maybe asking forsummarizing reports, extracting
key points.
I use Phantom or Fathom AIrecorder and I love the notes.
If I'm in a meeting, I'm on theboard and for an organization
and if there's a lot of peoplethere, it's a lot to take notes
(14:11):
and having it do that.
I do pay for it.
I think it's like a hundredbucks a year or so If that feels
right for you.
They also have a cap on howoften you can use it.
There are places like GranolaAI or Otter AI.
There are plenty of tools outthere that can really make your
life easier.
Again, assuming what you'retalking about is not highly
confidential.
So also asking like, based onmy calendar, what can you do for
(14:34):
me today?
Is it drafting email?
Is it organizing key themesthat you need to give feedback
on?
It's not looking to create morework for you, it's just finding
ways that you can use yourbrain then for the higher touch
areas of strategy, connectionand building relationship and
networking and finding thoseinsights.
(14:55):
And then, lastly, I want you tothink about what prompts you can
ask based on what you're alwaysdoing, so you might say if
you're looking for a job.
Instead of saying, write acover letter, you might say
something like act as arecruiter based on this job
posting and my resume.
Write a confident, concisecover letter that highlights my
(15:15):
leadership and transferableskills.
You don't just want to repeatyour resume in a cover letter,
but that might be a way of usingit in contextual space that
makes it you know you'rethinking about writing prompts,
because the better you can writeprompts, the better the
information you're going to get,and then the less generic it's
going to be, all right.
The last part I want to talkabout is what my this is my
(15:36):
opinion.
Not everyone is going to agreewith this, but there are plenty
of tools and I want to talkabout the big three.
So chat, gpt I call it chat EGopen AI right.
You want to think about it forreframing your resume bullets,
prepping for interviews.
It may draft headlines or bios,right.
Simulate the interview, getfeedback on your questions right
(15:59):
Things that it's all great at.
Google's Gemini you might wantto use it within your Gmail,
your Docs Sheets, lives, right.
Writing, networking emails,summarizing job descriptions.
Maybe you're comparing multiplespreadsheets, but everything
within that Google universereally, really helpful and great
for organizing your job search.
(16:20):
And then I also really likeClaude by Anthropic, which this
is great when you're dealingwith a lot of content, right.
It might summarize your jobdescription, analyze reports,
review a body of work, right.
Really really good for anythingthat's more complex that you're
doing.
And I just find that it alsowrites in a more human way.
(16:42):
It doesn't sound as I thinkit's harder to figure out that a
clawed AI result is actually byAI, versus like Gemini or
ChatGPT.
I think it's really obviouswhen you get something there if
you haven't put your human touchon it.
Okay, final thoughts Whetheryou're job searching, pivoting,
(17:02):
building something bigger orstepping into what next, it's
obviously going to help you stayagile, adaptable and it's going
to be a requirement for yourjob.
So, making sure it's on yourresume.
I want to see the word AI onyour resume and even if you're
using it within your job search,I want to make sure that you're
saying that because, again,you're going to want to know
that you're using it.
(17:23):
Making sure that the peoplethat you're communicating with
that you're scrubbing it so thatthe people that you're
communicating with aren'tlooking at it being like who
wrote this, but using it to askbetter questions, stay curious
and making sure that the tech isserving your vision and not the
other way around.
All right, friends, if thisepisode was helpful, share it
(17:46):
with a friend, a colleague orsomeone who might be secretly
stressing out that they'refalling behind on AI.
And if you're ready for what'snext in your career, I would
love to help.
You can visit my website,griffinmethodcom, and get
information about working withme for individual coaching,
career strategy, working withteams and team dynamics.
Or just say hello, all rightfriends, until next time, be
(18:11):
curious, intentional and always,always.
Hey, welcome to the Career Refresh.
Listen, whether you arethinking about a reinvention,
refining your executive presenceor building a team that thrives
, this is where we're going totalk about the guidance and
insights you need in order tomake that happen.
I'm Jill Griffin, I'm anexecutive coach, I am a
strategist and I'm a formermedia executive.
(00:21):
I spent the last 25 yearsworking my way up and through
the ranks of multiplecorporations and startups and
working with the world's topbrands and leading teams through
strategic growth, throughtransition, through
communications planning all ofthe above.
Today, I help high performersand their teams align their
strengths and really tackle boththe team dynamics and the
(00:44):
organizational goals so thatthey can thrive in today's
workplace, which isever-changing, and that's what
we're also talking about todaychange.
Today, we're talking aboutsomething that is exciting,
confusing, scary.
All of the above AI.
Ai in the job search and in theworkplace.
More specifically, it's abouthow to stay relevant, grow your
(01:05):
career and lead with intention.
That in a world that isshifting really fast, and we
want you to stay relevant, solet us dig in, okay, whether
you're job searching, managing ateam or thinking about your
next big move, there's a lot ofnoise around AI and it is
absolutely shifting how you work.
That is not new to you, you'vealready heard that.
(01:27):
But it's thinking about that.
Tasks are being automated andjob descriptions are evolving.
It's creating questions like isthis going to replace me?
What do I need to learn here?
Do I have to learn code?
And how does staying relevantin this moving goalpost
marketplace what does it looklike?
The bottom rung of the careerladder, as it's being called?
(01:47):
Right, the knowledge worker?
That shift is happening, butthat was happening before this
explosion of AI.
Right, covid impacted thehiring and nurturing of young
professionals too.
So these entry-level roles dataanalysis, research, even
copywriting are definitely beingrestructured and AI is
absorbing the task.
Research, even copywriting, aredefinitely being restructured
and AI is absorbing the tasks,but it doesn't mean it's
replacing humans, or I shouldsay, yet it's replacing the
(02:10):
tasks.
So we need to be thinking aboutthat.
It's a recalibration and how wewant to shift.
So, whether that means evolvingearly career, or what success
mid-career looks like, or ifyou're further along in your
career, I want you to bethinking about new ways of being
indispensable, and that isabout creating the through line
(02:32):
of relevance.
Right, it's not about knowingevery single tool and every
single software out there.
It's about how to use themwisely and think differently.
Listen, I have a client rightnow who is using AI to train
herself on AI, meaning she issaying, based on her career,
what does she need to know?
And AI has written her a planof what she needs to do each
(02:52):
week over the next six weeks toget up to speed on something.
You could do that too.
You could absolutely do thattoo.
So I want to talk about whatI'm saying.
I'm going to say like eightsmart ways to use AI and stay
relevant.
The first is I want you to thinkabout how it's impacting your
industry specifically.
Right, you're hearing aboutthings around tech and
engineering.
Well, if you don't do that fora living, that's just kind of
(03:14):
feels like overwhelm and fearfor fear's sake.
So I want you to get clear.
If you are in tech, right, itis absolutely accelerating the
way code is generated, bugdetection and even QA, testing
and entry-level roles.
They are definitely beingcompressed, but platforms are,
you know, using moreboilerplates.
(03:36):
Like you know, a GitHub copilot, right, is reducing the need
for junior engineers because itis actually giving you more
boilerplates.
But you want to be thinkingabout how you want to focus more
on systems thinking, productintuition and product design and
also architecture.
So you're in finance, right,where analysts used to spend
hours pulling and cleaning dataand making sure we had data
(03:59):
hygiene right, doing that inExcel.
Well, now, obviously, ai issummarizing those reports and
flagging anomalies much faster,but the work again doesn't go
away.
It's about understanding thestrategic insight and
communications that are moreimportant than ever.
If you're in product, thinkingabout AI is influencing roadmaps
and how roadmaps are beingprioritized.
(04:21):
Teams are using AI to analyze,you know, usage patterns,
customer feedback, competitorbehavior and data you should be
thinking about.
It's about not the code, buthow you can connect the dots
between discovery, design andtesting.
That's an opportunity withinproduct where you can use AI
(04:42):
tools but still put the humanthinking on things.
And then again, I can't gothrough every industry, but if
you're, you know, in somethingaround advertising or marketing
or sales, right, there'sobviously they're using it for
copy and A-B testing.
But the shift where we stillneed strategists to be the
editor, to curate the ideas andnot just be the creator, it's
(05:04):
like it's not about coming upwith everything.
It's about coming up with theright things.
So that's just some of the waysthat I'm seeing AI impact the
job descriptions and the actualdepartment.
Second thing I want you to thinkabout is that, using AI as a
co-pilot I call it the secondbrain.
I've also heard other peoplecall it that right, it's like
(05:25):
you're the driver.
Ai is the GPS.
So if you're using it tobrainstorm, summarize, draft or
prep, you're using your ownjudgment.
It's just how it scales you,it's not how it replaces you.
And then there are extensionswhere you can add on to Chrome
to make sure that when you'recreating something, you can say
is this AI generated?
You can drop it in there andactually be able to see does
(05:47):
this sound like blah, blah, blah, you know very anodyne and very
rote, or does it sound like youcan use AI as an outline and
then put in your own human touchon it?
We're not looking forperfection.
We're not looking to makeeverything.
I mean, you see it.
You see it.
If you scroll sites, especiallylike LinkedIn, or if you're on
Substack, you see when somethingis AI generated, because I feel
(06:09):
like the heart and soul hasbeen taken out of the document
or the content and you're justsort of like, yeah, right, so we
don't want to sound flat orbland.
It's like if you ever read likea Wikipedia.
You don't want to sound likethat.
But we also can have reallyflowery language.
Or AI always writes in thiscontrast where it'll always say
(06:32):
like it's not about blah, it'sabout blah.
That's an AI giveaway.
For some reason, someone decidedthat everything has to be a
compare and contrast.
It's a great way of seeing ifAI is being used.
So don't do that.
Right?
You want to make sure that ifyou give AI a generic prompt,
(06:54):
it's going to give you genericcontent, right?
The model can't guess thecontext.
That's what it needs you tobring to the situation.
So giving it a clear personawhen you're asking questions,
that matches the task.
So asking things that are basedon your tone, brand and voice
and style.
You can even ask in AI, basedon everything I've put in here,
what is my tone and style, andsee what it spits back to you.
(07:17):
If you agree with that, thenwhen you write in the future,
you're giving it a prompt thatsays and you know, make it crisp
, make it strategic, make itwitty, whatever your tone and
style is, that you can put inthere.
So for acting for like, ifyou're going for a marketing job
, you want to be thinking aboutasking a question like act like
(07:38):
a conversion psychologist whowrites landing page that
triggers buyer emotion right,that is going to give you a
level of specificity that youdidn't expect before.
If you're in data, asking itjust for generic storytelling
based on the data okay, right,you know, just for generic
(07:59):
storytelling based on the dataOkay, right, but you want to
skip to act like a storytellinganalyst that is turning metrics
into slides for the board rightFor the board presentation.
Asking it that level ofspecificity.
That is when you're asking itspecific, the more tailored, the
more strategic, the more usefulit is and it's not going to
sound rote, all right.
Next, focusing on use cases,there is thinking about how to
(08:25):
use AI.
I want you to also start withcuriosity.
There is a gentleman namedRuman Hassad.
I'll put his link in the shownotes.
He's on LinkedIn and I findthat he puts out a lot of really
good content and ways ofthinking about things
differently and writing reallygood prompts.
So, if you're in marketing, useAI to generate 10 subject
(08:45):
emails Sure, fine, but have it.
Summarize the customer reviewsthat you see to spot trends that
you can act on.
If you're in HR obviously usingAI to draft the first level of
the job description and analyzesort of the tone from exit
interviews, employee engagementstudies how are you pulling all
that together to get ahead ofany questions that might be
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asked for you during the searchprocess?
It can be sure, summarizingpages of data, but also asking
it to prep the you know, thequarterly meeting notes, or
using concise commentary.
Or, if you have to go to anearnings call, have you ever
provided data for an earningscall?
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It can be quite terrifying, sobeing able to ask it that right,
right.
So the specific questions.
And then, if you're in productor innovation or tech, asking it
what-if scenarios?
Right, and see if you couldpressure test your thinking and
thinking about things indifferent ways.
You also may want to thinkabout context, for how do I
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think about this in three, sixand 12 months?
Right, asking it.
How do I think about, you know,building a RACI or a RACI?
Right, responsible, accountable, consulted, informed.
How do I think about that forthe key stakeholders?
Right, different ways of usingAI with curiosity and focusing
on like use cases.
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Next, I want you to think abouthow you might audit your
transferable skills.
So, if you're using AI to pivotor reinvent and help you find a
new position, you might compareyour resume to the job posting
and see where it overlaps.
You might also want to help it,help you reframe your
experience to use in languagethat still feels authentic to
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you but also hits on thekeywords and phrases that are in
the resume excuse me, that arein the job description, so that
you could use those both on yourresume and, if it requires a
cover letter, your cover letter.
Right, if things feel good andtrue, you may also want to
pepper in that language intoyour LinkedIn profile, making
sure that it's consistent.
You never want a situation inwhich your resume says one thing
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and your LinkedIn profile sayssomething that feels unaligned,
because people are going to belike okay, will a real Jill
please stand up.
They're not going to know whereit is.
Next thing, I want you to thinkabout AI for simulating real
world scenarios.
This is going to take practice,but it's low key, right?
So you might ask AI to run amock interview with you and,
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based on this job description,your resumes, what questions
might it ask you?
Right, asking you questions, orask it to be tough on you and
ask you questions.
Right, this is going to helpbuild your reflexes and make you
sharper and be thinking itthrough ahead of time.
You may also ask it tointerview you from different
styles right Structured.
You may also ask it tointerview you from different
styles right Structured,unstructured, semi-structured,
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behavioral or situational right.
You could even prompt it forasking you on a panel interview
or include the titles of thecast of characters that might be
there.
So, again, that you canpractice not only the questions
but some of the answers based onyour resume.
Again, we're not lying here.
This has to be authentic and ithas to be you.
Next, I want you to experiment,but I want you to know the
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guardrails.
So there's a lot ofconversation in a lot of my HR
and CIO circles where people aregetting a little bit nervous.
I just had a conversation of ageneral counsel of a law firm oh
boy.
So before you copy and pastecompany data into a chatbot,
make sure you're aware of yourcompany's actual AI policies.
If you're in those positions,make sure that people know where
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to find them, because you canuse AI responsibly, maybe for
drafts and some ideation, butnot for confidential work unless
it's been secured and approvedby your company's policy.
And I'll tell you a littlepersonal story here.
Right, I was writing aframework for work and I was
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using AI to help me.
Like, sometimes it was a littlebit wordy, so I was like making
this crisp, make this concisehow would you say this through
this lens and making it better,right?
So I was using it to fine tunesomething.
That scene Well, someonescheduled a perspective
appointment with me and theyknew information that I hadn't
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made public.
So the stuff that I was usingto fine tune, they actually knew
that.
They shared with me what theypulled out of AI and what AI
said about me.
And it was really funny, right.
The prospective client saidthey found me because of the
prompts they were using and itdelivered me.
So, yay, awesome.
But it also made me someone Iwasn't and it took the
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information that I was finetuning and put it out there,
right.
So there's enough informationabout me between public content,
this podcast, newsletter,social, but this was funny that
it actually mixed all thosethings together and this new
pieces.
So, look, it's just my way ofsaying nothing is private,
nothing is confidential, so useit with care.
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Okay, next, I want you to thinkabout the obvious, about saving
time, maybe asking forsummarizing reports, extracting
key points.
I use Phantom or Fathom AIrecorder and I love the notes.
If I'm in a meeting, I'm on theboard and for an organization
and if there's a lot of peoplethere, it's a lot to take notes
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and having it do that.
I do pay for it.
I think it's like a hundredbucks a year or so If that feels
right for you.
They also have a cap on howoften you can use it.
There are places like GranolaAI or Otter AI.
There are plenty of tools outthere that can really make your
life easier.
Again, assuming what you'retalking about is not highly
confidential.
So also asking like, based onmy calendar, what can you do for
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me today?
Is it drafting email?
Is it organizing key themesthat you need to give feedback
on?
It's not looking to create morework for you, it's just finding
ways that you can use yourbrain then for the higher touch
areas of strategy, connectionand building relationship and
networking and finding thoseinsights.
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And then, lastly, I want you tothink about what prompts you can
ask based on what you're alwaysdoing, so you might say if
you're looking for a job.
Instead of saying, write acover letter, you might say
something like act as arecruiter based on this job
posting and my resume.
Write a confident, concisecover letter that highlights my
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leadership and transferableskills.
You don't just want to repeatyour resume in a cover letter,
but that might be a way of usingit in contextual space that
makes it you know you'rethinking about writing prompts,
because the better you can writeprompts, the better the
information you're going to get,and then the less generic it's
going to be, all right.
The last part I want to talkabout is what my this is my
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opinion.
Not everyone is going to agreewith this, but there are plenty
of tools and I want to talkabout the big three.
So chat, gpt I call it chat EGopen AI right.
You want to think about it forreframing your resume bullets,
prepping for interviews.
It may draft headlines or bios,right.
Simulate the interview, getfeedback on your questions right
(15:59):
Things that it's all great at.
Google's Gemini you might wantto use it within your Gmail,
your Docs Sheets, lives, right.
Writing, networking emails,summarizing job descriptions.
Maybe you're comparing multiplespreadsheets, but everything
within that Google universereally, really helpful and great
for organizing your job search.
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And then I also really likeClaude by Anthropic, which this
is great when you're dealingwith a lot of content, right.
It might summarize your jobdescription, analyze reports,
review a body of work, right.
Really really good for anythingthat's more complex that you're
doing.
And I just find that it alsowrites in a more human way.
(16:42):
It doesn't sound as I thinkit's harder to figure out that a
clawed AI result is actually byAI, versus like Gemini or
ChatGPT.
I think it's really obviouswhen you get something there if
you haven't put your human touchon it.
Okay, final thoughts Whetheryou're job searching, pivoting,
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building something bigger orstepping into what next, it's
obviously going to help you stayagile, adaptable and it's going
to be a requirement for yourjob.
So, making sure it's on yourresume.
I want to see the word AI onyour resume and even if you're
using it within your job search,I want to make sure that you're
saying that because, again,you're going to want to know
that you're using it.
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Making sure that the peoplethat you're communicating with
that you're scrubbing it so thatthe people that you're
communicating with aren'tlooking at it being like who
wrote this, but using it to askbetter questions, stay curious
and making sure that the tech isserving your vision and not the
other way around.
All right, friends, if thisepisode was helpful, share it
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with a friend, a colleague orsomeone who might be secretly
stressing out that they'refalling behind on AI.
And if you're ready for what'snext in your career, I would
love to help.
You can visit my website,griffinmethodcom, and get
information about working withme for individual coaching,
career strategy, working withteams and team dynamics.
Or just say hello, all rightfriends, until next time, be
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curious, intentional and always,always.
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