Supercharge Your Job Hunt with AI
Building Startups by Ajay Yadav
The ‘No-BS’ BS Newsletter
Hi folks, happy Friday!
Let’s get started🚀
💻️AI
➡️ Supercharge Your Job Hunt with AI💼
There seems to be a lot of talk about how AI is here to replace human jobs. Time to flip it on its head.
AI can help you evaluate your career journey and get your next job🔍️
If you have been curious about a job on the market or have an offer you need preparation for, AI can provide what is not at your fingertips and would manually take a lot more effort, in minutes.🕐️
It can evaluate jobs, optimise your documents, help prepare for interviews, and so much more. Here are few AI resources to ease your daunting job hunt and prep:
Evaluating your Career’s Credit Score:
NAV uses generative AI to instantly assess a current or future job position. It provides a composite score for a position after online evaluation so that you can decide if its time to leave or not. NAV also personalises the experience by offering human career coaches who analyse your results and provide advice.
Resume Optimisation and Interview Preparation:
Jobscan optimises your resume with appropriate keywords to help you filter through the applicant tracking systems (ATS) used by companies to shortlist resumes. It evaluates how well your resume/cover letter/LinkedIn profile fits the job, and provides recommendations.
Adzuna’s Prepper generates company and job-specific interview questions, and provides feedback on user responses.Negotiate a Fair Compensation:
Payscale analyses data from thousands of job listings and compensation surveys to provide a salary estimate for your job and profile. You can also get suggestions on the benefits and advantages you should request when negotiating.
➡️ AI News of the Week: Google Announces AI Copywriting Tool TextFX
Making use of Google’s PaLM 2 large language model, TextFX is a generative AI tool to enhance the creative writing process. It contains 10 AI sub-tools, “each designed to explore creative possibilities with text and language”.✏️
TextFX can help you generate new product names, brand positioning, and more. It calls itself an "AI-powered tool for rappers, writers, and wordsmiths."
➡️ AI Tool of the Week: Pair AI
The Y Combinator-backed Pair calls itself the “first truly mobile first education platform.” 📚️📱
By enabling any and all creators to launch premium video courses, it aims to make learning super fun and engaging like watching a TikTok!
Pair makes industry-leading gamification technologies such as streaks, leaderboards, and badges available to all artists and educators. So creators can now monetise their knowledge at scale while also providing education to people. 🌟
🚀Entrepreneurship
A lot of founders associate making a successful startup with raising funds.💸
However, 90% of startups fail because of early fundraising.
So,
Focus on solving a problem, not seeking funds.💡
There are considerable downsides to getting the money early, the biggest of which is that you'll start focusing more on how you spend your money than on growing your business.
It is undeniable that getting funding for your startup can make a huge difference. But here are a few pointers to keep in mind:
When seeking funding, take your time and evaluate everything.
Be patient. An ideal timeframe would be 6 to 8 months.
Use this time to get your business up and running. Make your customers your initial investors.💁🏻
Get validation for your startup through having a significant customer base. This will eventually make you more credible when you do have to raise funds.
Then, you can start thinking about how to best use any funding you receive.🌟
👔 Leadership Lifestyle
Today’s wise words come from Aadit Palicha, co-Founder and CEO at Zepto, a leading quick-commerce app in India.🛍️
Aadit is currently 21 but was 19 when he dropped out of Stanford University.
But those aren’t the only numbers that are surprising.
Zepto was only introduced in 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic and has already raised 200 million USD led by Y Combinator. The company’s valuation had already crossed 7,300 crore INR in 2022! 💰️
When asked in an interview about what initiated this entrepreneurial spirit in him, this is what Aadit had to say:
Have a great weekend, see you in the next one!
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