Jobseekers Use AI As Expert Career Coach
Trent Cotton, head of talent-acquisition insights at iCIMS, outlines how jobseekers should use AI in a recent as-told-to essay. He warns that generic AI résumé rewrites make applicants blend in and recommends prompting agents as expert career coaches, exploring roles (for example, tech openings in manufacturing) and running brutal mock interviews using personas like Gordon Ramsay for candid feedback.
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