I Tried 10 ChatGPT Resume Prompts. Here's What Actually Got Me Interviews.
Dev.to AI
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Generative AI
I sent 47 applications with my old resume. 0 callbacks. Then I tried 10 ChatGPT prompts I'd been collecting. I sent the next 12 applications with rewritten resumes. 4 callbacks. Here are the prompts that actually worked, and the ones that wasted my time. The pattern that worked: every prompt that produced something useful was specific about output format and gave the model permission to leave things blank. Every prompt that failed was vague. Prompt 1: STAR with [needs metric] markers "Rewrite my resume bullets using the STAR method (situation, task, action, result.