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What's the advantage of using this instead of opening ChatGPT and saying "Please write this resume for me with this information: ..."?



Hey, thank you for the feedback.

Indeed at the moment it's not much over what raw ChatGPT can offer. But I'm looking at ChatGPT as an infrastructure component. Not really meant for the "average person" to interact with. This tools (and others such as copy.ai, Notion, etc.) contextualise it in a way that makes sense for the job a person needs to do.

Nevertheless, it does have a number of features to structure the output in a way that's tailored for resumes, reviews, cover letters etc. And it does have a UI that we think makes it easier to iterate on each individual idea or paragraph.

We want to add some features that "justify" it more as existing as a separate product. Things like auto-improving your LinkedIn profile, or a history/log of folks you've reviewed, etc.

What sort of features you'd like to see to make this more worthwhile as a product?


If you try the tool you'll see there's some UI around building out specific sections with some small details that you offer


I did try the tool, and it was not clear to me why filling out a bunch of smaller forms is superior to pasting all your information at once


The way I've found out works best after dog fooding the tool for a while (for resumes, cover letters, etc) is to take an iterative approach to it.

- Start with the minimal amount of info needed.

- Let it generate a "first draft" that acts more as inspiration.

- Fill in a bit more details in various paragraphs. Let it expand on it.

- Delete things that aren't needed.

- Add things you might've initially forgotten about.

- Iterate for a short while and get to hopefully a decent result.

The idea being that the first draft won't ever be perfect. You need a few tries to get to something that's good and truthful for the situation at hand.

But that's a dataset of N=1.


It pads OPs resume




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