Leveraging AI: your job application assistant

Description:

Tired of generic job applications that don't get results? This interactive workshop shows you exactly how to leverage AI tools like ChatGPT to create targeted, compelling applications that stand out.

You'll follow along in real-time as we demonstrate a complete job application workflow using AI. Starting with strategic job searching, you'll learn to use AI to identify alternative position titles, analyse job requirements, and map your skills against employer needs. Then we'll transform generic resumé bullet points into powerful achievement statements.

The workshop culminates with hands-on selection criteria writing, where you'll see how to use AI for clarity, critical review, and structural organisation using frameworks like STAR. You'll learn exactly how to prompt AI effectively, when to accept suggestions, and how to maintain your authentic voice while maximising AI assistance.

This isn't a lecture—it's a live demonstration you participate in from start to finish.

Skills tags: Generative AI literacy; creative thinking; writing selection criteria; writing CVs and resumés; writing for different audiences; marketing and promotion; digital competence

Workshop Requirements:

·         This workshop is delivered in one 2.0-hour session.

·         Bring your current CV/resumé and a laptop or desktop computer

·         Have a specific job type or role in mind that interests you

·         Have 3 job ads downloaded and ready to go (that are related/similar roles)

·         Be prepared to work with ChatGPT (free version is sufficient) or other GenAI tool

If you have any questions about this event please contact the facilitator: Lindsay.Hogan@anu.edu.au

Facilitator: Dr. Lindsay Hogan

Having progressed from PhD student, to postdoc, to commercial development manager to learning advisor, Lindsay has experienced the challenges of post-PhD career transitions firsthand. She combines her 17 years of higher education experience with insights from commercial development and academia to help researchers develop their career plan. Her workshops draw from personal experience and research to help you avoid common pitfalls and uncover opportunities in your own career journey.

Connect with Lindsay: www.linkedin.com/in/lindsayhogan1