What AI chatbots are good at
- Rewriting CV bullet points to lead with results.
- Drafting a first-version cover letter from your CV and the advert.
- Summarising a long job description into its key requirements.
- Generating likely interview questions for a role.
- Giving feedback on your practice answers.
Prompts that work
- “Here is my CV and a job advert. List the five requirements I match best and the two I'm weakest on.”
- “Rewrite these CV bullets for this role. Keep every fact accurate and don't add skills I haven't listed.”
- “Write a three-paragraph cover letter for this role using only the experience in my CV.”
- “Ask me ten interview questions for this role one at a time, and critique each answer.”
Where chatbots fall short
- They don't have a live, searchable jobs database, so they can't reliably tell you who's hiring today.
- They can invent skills or achievements if you don't check every line.
- Nothing is saved between applications: no tracker, no version history of your tailored CVs.
- Copy-pasting between a chatbot, a CV document and job sites is slow.