🛠️ Career Strategy

The Formula for Perfect Cover Letters

Today, we’re doing an AI prompt double-header. Here’s a set of prompts that will make writing cover letters significantly easier. Fill in the parts in {brackets}.

Copy / paste the job description into your AI model of choice (ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude are all good options) below this instruction:

I am applying to the job described below. Please take a moment and deeply understand the job description and its requirements. When you are done reading, return the three most important responsibilities of the role as numbered bullets with no other commentary: {insert job description here}

Read the AI response. If you feel you can do the job and have previously held similar enough responsibilities that the hiring manager will take you seriously, proceed with this prompt:

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🤖 AI Tactic

Meta-Prompting: Prompts for Better Prompts

After that headline, prompt doesn’t sound like a real word anymore, does it?

That aside, you can get substantially better prompts simply by asking AI for help. I prefer ChatGPT for this because it has long-term memory across all of your chats.

You can start with the prompt below; I’d recommend ChatGPT o3:

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🧠 Curiosity Corner

Crisis Communications… and Coldplay?!

If you’ve been living under a rock, you probably missed the kiss cam seen ‘round the world. Astronomer, a data pipeline startup, made headlines when its CEO and Chief People Officer (both married to other people!) were caught canoodling at a Coldplay concert (couldn’t help the alliteration there, sorry 🤷‍♂️).

The best part was the company’s response. Obviously, they got rid of the philandering execs. And capitalizing on the sudden inflow of traffic, they immediately hired Gwyneth Paltrow (Coldplay frontman Chris Martin’s ex) to make a statement on their behalf.

This is a masterclass in crisis comms. By laughing at themselves, they:

1. engage with their new audience (they’re all in on the joke together)

2. defuse ridicule by joining it

3. get closure so people can move on

4. signal a fresh start by “consciously uncoupling” with their old execs (just as Paltrow did with Martin)

Anyway, if you have been living under a rock, I hope you get a laugh out of this 🪨 

💼 Job Board

Outsized Rewards in Revenue Operations 💰️

Here are the 3 most interesting remote job openings I’ve seen this week:

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That’s it for this week.

-Rahul from The DesAI Digest

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