Writing Cover Letters with ChatGPT
Explore how to write tailored cover letters using ChatGPT by starting with generic prompts and progressively refining them. Learn to incorporate job descriptions and personal resume highlights to produce professional, role-specific letters. This lesson guides you through evaluation and iteration for optimal results while emphasizing careful review of AI-generated content.
Using GPT to generate cover letters is a simple process. However, there are a lot of tricks we can use to get an optimized output. Let's go over the process of using ChatGPT to generate an impactful cover letter.
Generic prompt
Let's start with a generic prompt:
Prompt: Write a cover letter for a software engineering position at company X. |
Even with just this output, GPT will generate a decent template that can be modified as per your needs.
Evaluating the generic prompt
We can ask ChatGPT to evaluate the cover letter generated above and ask for suggestions on how to improve it. This will first require that we assign ChatGPT ...