Cover letters and resumes can be tedious to write. ChatGPT, a popular AI chatbot, can write them quickly. But should you use them in your job hunt? In today’s competitive job market, candidates need ...

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Summer stretches before us, with all its potential for meeting research and writing goals. But if you’re going on the faculty-job market for the first time — as a recent Ph.D. or an advanced doctoral ...

Job hunters are using artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT to do a tedious task: writing cover letters. Some took to Twitter and TikTok to share the results. In some cases, using ChatGPT to write your ...

The cover letter is its own unique, dreaded genre of writing. In a few — often formulaic — paragraphs, job applicants must accomplish several things: prostrate themselves at the feet of hiring ...

Studies show that a significant number, though by no means a majority, of job hunters are using artificial intelligence like ChatGPT to write resumes and cover letters. The use of gen AI in the job ...

The earliest record of the cover letter for employment dates back to the 1950s according to The Atlantic, and has been used ever since as an addition to resumes, for candidates to prove to potential ...

In a time when ChatGPT wasn’t yet known to the world, I wrote a cover letter that did exactly what it was supposed to: provided additional context for why I deserved the job I was applying for. And it ...