I guide job seekers in utilizing AI to enhance their chances of securing employment at Amazon, Apple, Google, and McKinsey.

Preparing for interviews can be the most challenging aspect of job hunting. However, AI can assist you in this process, bringing you closer to securing employment.

I was a leader of LinkedIn's Education Team and an OpenAI partner on the ChatGPT launch while at Khan Academy. Currently, I assist students and career coaches in utilizing LinkedIn and ChatGPT's capabilities. I collaborate with top universities such as Harvard, Stanford, and NYU, and help job seekers secure offers from companies including Google, Apple, Amazon, and McKinsey.

Understanding how I've employed new AI tools to aid job seekers in securing positions with some of the world's most discerning employers requires focusing on the human aspect first.

To get hired, show 2 key traits in an interview

While there has been a recent emphasis on Large Language Models, I remain more captivated by the intricacies of human decision-making.

Our brains tend to concentrate on two crucial factors when forming first impressions during interviews.

1. Competence: Can you do the job?
2. Warmth: Would I want to work with you?

Preparing for an interview requires more than just memorizing answers to regurgitate on demand. Since your interviewer is a human, you need to consider how you present yourself, how you respond and adapt in the moment.

To enhance productivity and achieve success at work, learn how to apply AI technology.

To project both competence and warmth in your next interview, you can use AI to prepare.

Prep with AI to project competence

If you want to be perceived as an organized, logical, and competent professional, it's important to present your accomplishments in a structured and deliberate manner during an interview.

The STAR method is the most effective framework for answering behavioral interview questions, which typically begin with phrases like "Tell me about a time" or "Describe an experience when."

• Situation: What was the context for your experience?
• Task: What was your specific responsibility and goal in the situation?
• Action: What steps did you take?
• How did your work affect others? What did you gain from it?

The art of storytelling is a fundamental aspect of human communication. Once you have learned the basics, you will be able to identify it in various forms, such as the movie "Star Wars."

• In a distant galaxy, Darth Vader is destroying planets.
• Task: He must be stopped.
• Action: Young Luke Skywalker heroically takes out the Death Star.
• Result: Peace and prosperity are restored!

With ChatGPT, you can practice and perfect your STAR answers to become a master storyteller in a lifetime.

What are the 10 most likely interview questions for this job description: [paste job description here]?

Rewritten sentence: Can you provide a sample STAR answer for the behavioral question "Tell me about a time when you had to work with a difficult team member" based on my resume?

Can you provide me with a list of all the programming languages you know?

Original: "I am an AI language model that can assist you with your tasks." Rewritten: "As an AI language model, I can help you with your tasks."

Rewritten sentence: Can you provide an alternative version of the input sentence that maintains the same length?

Prep with AI to project warmth

Despite the importance of displaying warmth-driving behaviors during interviews, such as making eye contact, smiling, speaking with the right tone of voice, and using pro-social gestures and expressions, many of us struggle to do so effectively.

It appears that humans struggle with multitasking, which often leads to forgetting best practices when we need to simultaneously listen, think, and speak.

Pro athletes tackle a multifaceted challenge as they evaluate their opponents, execute their game plan, and adapt on the fly. They have no mental space left to recall specific techniques for shooting a basketball or throwing a football. As a result, they automate these skills through extensive practice.

You can obtain a significant amount of interview practice without the need for a team of coaches and trainers. LinkedIn provides a free, AI-powered interview preparation tool that I suggest using.

1. Rewritten sentence: Can you provide examples of how you have communicated complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders?
2. Athletes often use recorded reviews as a learning tool.
3. LinkedIn's AI provides feedback on various aspects that contribute to your warmth, such as your pace and pitch variation.

By practicing these warmth-building techniques repeatedly and receiving feedback, they will become second nature to you, allowing you to use them effectively during conversations with your prospective boss or teammate.

Jeremy Schifeling, the founder of The Job Insiders, offers career technology training to hundreds of top universities and business schools. He is also the author of "Career Coach GPT: The Complete Guide to ChatGPT Resume, Cover Letter, Interview, and Job Search Success" and shares his latest career and AI hacks on LinkedIn.

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