Job hunting with AI: from ten scattered chats to one plan

Job hunting, AI and scattered chats

If you use AI to draft a résumé, review cover letters and practice interviews, each task can leave useful details in a different chat. The problem is keeping track of the version you decided to use.

The more you use AI for the search, the more chats you end up with.

What a job-search plan needs

• The roles you're targeting, and why.
• Your pitch: the version of your story you settled on.
• Your résumé and cover letter, latest versions.
• What you dropped: roles or angles you decided against.
• What doesn't add up: a pitch that doesn't match the roles, or two versions of your story.

Pull it together by hand

1. Go through each chat and copy the latest version of what you kept.
2. List what you decided, and what you dropped.
3. Put it in one document, in the order above.
4. Start a new chat with it when you want help with the next application.

The faster way: Merge, then Memo

Uncook's Merge brings several chats together into one prompt. With the Uncook extension, pick your job-search chats and choose Merge. You get one prompt with what matters from each, to start a new chat with. Review it, then copy and paste it into a new chat.

The Merge task cost and free-account chat limit are shown in the tool box below. A pack or Pro lets you bring more chats at once.

Then, if you want a document to read, make a Memo of the same chats: what's decided, what changed, what was set aside and what doesn't add up. That is a separate paid action, with the cost shown before you click.

Questions people ask

Should I let AI write my cover letters? Use it to think and to edit, and make sure what you send sounds like you and is true. Recruiters read a lot of generic letters.

Is it safe to paste my résumé into ChatGPT? Leave out what you don't need to share, like your full address or ID numbers.

Can I merge chats from ChatGPT and Claude? Yes. Merge works across the AIs Uncook reads.