How to Use ChatGPT to Update Your Resume

Objective:  Learn how to use ChatGPT to help update your resume.

Getting Started 

  1. How to Access ChatGPT

    • You can access ChatGPT through a website or app. Simply search for "ChatGPT" online or download the app from your device's app store.

    • To use ChatGPT, you’ll need an account or click "Stay Logged Out.”

  2. What Is a Prompt?

    • A prompt is what you type to tell ChatGPT what you want.

    • Example: “Write a bullet points for a resume for a CDL B driver for a cement company with one year of experience.”

    • Tip: Make your prompt clear and specific.

Using ChatGPT for Your Resume

Step 1: Ask ChatGPT for Guidance

  1. Use a prompt:
    “Write bulletpoints for a resume for someone with experience as a certified medical assistant at a primary care clinic with one year of experience . Include skills like taking vital signs, rooming patients, and phlebotomy. Start with verbs.  End each with a period.  Make them present tense.”

Use these prompts to modify the results.

  • “Make this sound better.”

  • “Make this sound more informal.”

  • “Make this shorter.”

  • “Make this past tense.”

  • “Make this present tense.”

  1.  Put in your job duties. 
    Example:  “Greeting and checking in patients, scheduling appointments, answering phones and directing calls, verifying insurance and collecting co-pays”

  • “Make these bullet points for a resume.”

Step 2: Check the Response

  • Always review what ChatGPT gives you.

  • Fix anything that doesn’t sound right or isn’t true.  DO NOT put things on your resume that you did not do.

  • If you’re not currently working at a job, make the description PAST TENSE.

  • If you are currently working at the job, make the description PRESENT TENSE.

Tips and Practice 

  • Always double-check your resume before using it.

  • Use ChatGPT as a helper, not the final writer.

  • Try different prompts to get better results.

  • Take out anything you did not do, anything you are unsure about, or anything you do not understand the job duties and cannot repeat.

Step 3:  Add the Information to Your Resume

  • Copy and paste the bullet points into your resume.

    • Copy:  Ctrl + C

    • Paste: Ctrl + V