8 Ways to Use AI to Optimize Your Job Search

AI is often over-hyped, but there are legitimate ways it can transform your life for the better. While AI tools can’t do everything, they can help you find a job in healthcare if you know how to leverage them. 

Hospitals and other employers already use AI to screen candidates, so why not use it to help you find and apply for jobs? Here’s how to do it. 

How to Use AI for Your Healthcare Job Search 

1. Optimize your resume and cover letters 

Resume writing and cover letters are difficult to write, especially since you’re expected to customize both for specific jobs. This is where AI tools can help you. 

Use an AI tool to help you rewrite your resume and cover letters every time you’re applying so you can get your foot in the door. Make sure the AI is inserting appropriate keywords so your resume is more likely to get past the first stages of filtering! 

2. Practice with mock interviews 

Interviews can be intimidating. Are you ready to interview at a moment’s notice? Most of us probably aren’t. 

Use generative AI chatbots to help you prepare. You can prompt them to ask you common interview questions for the role you’re applying for, then answer those questions as best you can. Do this regularly until you’re comfortable answering a wide variety of questions without getting confused or flustered. 

3. Present yourself more professionally 

Although you should avoid making an entirely AI-generated image, you can use AI tools to make your headshots look more professional or to clean up your online profiles, especially LinkedIn. 

You can do everything from sprucing up your outfit to look more professional or adjusting your pose to be more confident. You can also use generative AI to improve the text around your online profiles and bios, helping you sound more polished all around. 

4. Find the right roles 

AI tools are not career experts, but they’re good at helping you connect the dots. If you’re applying to a wide variety of roles or you’re confused about which roles you should be applying for, an AI tool could help. 

Use the tool to figure out roles associated with the skills and experience you have. You can even use a tool like ChatGPT for this. Simply ask it what kind of roles people apply for when they have your resume, and then provide relevant information from your resume for reference. 

This isn’t going to be 100% reliable, but it’s a good starting point. Use it as a baseline to find what kind of job titles are out there, then research those jobs to see if they’re something you’re interested in. 

5. Automate filling applications 

No, you probably can’t get AI to do the entire job application process for you (at least, not if you want good results!). But, you can get help to fill out job applications and do a lot of the uncomfortable legwork for you. 

Using an AI tool is a great way to cut down on the horribly repetitive parts of the job search. You’re essentially having it fill out applications in the way you would so you can use your time to do something more productive like beefing up your portfolio or doing freelance work. 

Whenever you can cut down the time you spend doing mundane activities without having to sacrifice the impacts of those activities, it’s a win. 

6. Track your job search process 

Use AI to keep track of what you’re doing in your job search. AI can be helpful for tracking this type of data and making it digestible when you’re trying to understand the data. 

Why track your job search? It can be helpful to show you what’s working or not working, pathways you’ve already pursued, and areas where you need to improve. You can also use it to track employers you have to follow up with and when you need to reach out. 

Tracking allows you to notice trends you wouldn’t have caught otherwise, to see where you could be doing better, and to take action at the appropriate time. Considering it can take a minimum of 3-6 months to find a new job, this tracking data will come in handy at some point. 

7. Compile job postings 

Why go through pages and pages of job listings every day when you could create a simple script to do that for you? You can use AI tools to compile all the job posts for a certain type of job and send them to you daily. This way, you’ll only have to go through one list of relevant job posts daily instead of scanning through a bunch of different lists on different websites. 

You can be as specific as you want with this kind of thing. For example, you could compile only urology PA jobs from a few select websites, or you could compile a list of all urology-related jobs from a wide list of job boards. 

8. Networking help 

Networking is important for job searching. It’s vital for finding great roles in many fields, especially since some jobs may not be advertised publicly. What happens if you’re not good at cold opens or reaching out to connect? 

Instead of skipping networking altogether, you can use AI tools to help you write a base message to send out. You can make message templates for cold opens, and then customize them for each person you reach out to. Or, you can use generative AI to help you write out follow-up messages to maintain connections with your network. 

Make sure you do some light editing to messages before sending them out so they sound more personal and less like AI-generated messages. 

Conclusion

Finding a job in healthcare is difficult enough on its own. Using AI tools can help you simplify the process, reduce the busy work, and spend more time doing the most productive activities while cutting down on the tedious, tiring parts.