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Guide to Résumés & Curricula Vitae | OITE CAREER SERVICES | Office of Intramural Training & Education | National Institutes of Health
Ethical Consideraons
When Using AI Tools
like ChatGPT
Ethical consideraons are crucial
when using AI tools like ChatGPT
to revise and/or edit ocial
documents. Ensure accuracy,
reliability, and compliance with
legal and professional standards
when using AI to aid in your job
search. Verify all informaon
to avoid any possibility of
misrepresentaon.
Privacy and data protecon are
signicant here; be cauous with
inpung sensive informaon,
and choose trustworthy plaorms
with strong data protecon
measures when engaging with
AI soware. We know it's long,
but reading through some of the
Terms and Condions of specic
AI soware might be worth a few
extra minutes of your me.
REMAIN AWARE OF BIAS
Bias migaon is crical; AI can
inherit biases from the training
data it learned from. Be aware
of biases related to gender, race,
ethnicity and acvely migate
them. Regularly review AI-
generated suggesons, consider
mulple perspecves, and ensure
fairness as best as possible.
By remaining mindful of accuracy,
privacy, and bias produced by a
trained AI model, we can all uphold
ethical standards while engaging
with tools like ChatGPT for reliable,
compliant, and personalized
documents that align closely with
our career goals and professional
aspiraons.
Utilizing AI to Tailor your Resume: ChatGPT
Taking advantage of AI tools like ChatGPT can be invaluable for eding and revising both
résumés and CVs. These tools can provide instant feedback on grammar, spelling, and
sentence structure, ensuring any document or group of text is error-free. Addionally,
AI tools can oer suggesons for improving clarity, word choice, and overall content
organizaon. AI can also help opmize keywords and phrases to tailor a résumé for
specic roles or posions, increasing the chance of grabbing an employer's aenon.
ChatGPT as a tool
ChatGPT is an excellent tool for eding and revising résumés and CVs. Its natural
language processing capabilies allow real-me feedback, correcons in grammar and
spelling, suggesons to improve sentence structure or content organizaon, and oers
guidance on incorporang specic job requirements, enhancing the overall quality and
impact of the résumé or CV.
Using textual prompts
Using eecve textual prompts with ChatGPT is crucial for opmizing your output. This
is because the model generates responses based on the informaon provided in the
prompt. Clear and specic prompts help guide the AI to focus on the desired topic or
task, resulng in more accurate and relevant responses. By providing context, asking
precise quesons, or giving specic instrucons, you can maximize the usefulness and
eecveness of your interacons with ChatGPT.
Examples of prompts
Aer pasng the text of your document into ChatGPT, you can then prompt it with:
"Provide general feedback on the structure and format of my CV/résumé."
"Suggest acon verbs or power words to make my résumé more impacul for X role."
"Review the content of my CV/résumé and suggest improvements for clarity."
You can also paste the text of a job descripon into ChatGPT and prompt it accordingly:
"Showcase the top ve relevant skills I should highlight for this posion."
"Which keywords should I include to opmize my résumé for ATS used by employers?"
"Tailor my résumé to more closely t this job descripon."
Not an author!
When using ChatGPT to generate any new content, be sure to review it very carefully. It
is likely that any unedited output will not be ready to hand in as is; but you can use this
framework as a starng point to personalize your content. It is recommended that you do
not generate brand new content for your resume using AI alone, and instead to use this
type of soware to help you revise the wring in documents you have already started.
Remember: You will need to know your documents very well for an eventual interview.
Employers can and will ask about your use of AI. Be honest!