Priya's Thursday, two ways

Priya, a job seeker returning to marketing after a career break.

Priya starts Thursday with a mug of tea and a long list of job postings. She opens ChatGPT and types a prompt from the Search And Screen Jobs lesson: find related job titles for marketing coordinator, remote, with a focus on nonprofits. The tool suggests communications specialist and outreach manager. She copies three postings into a note and compares the skills they share.

One posting from a local food bank catches her eye. She uses the Tailor Resume To Jobs prompt in Claude, pasting the job ad and her old resume bullet about an email campaign that grew a volunteer list. Claude suggests clearer words like donor outreach and community engagement. Priya keeps her real numbers and cuts a line that sounds too stiff.

Next she opens Gemini for the Write Cover Letters lesson. She gives it the food bank's mission, her career break, and one story about organizing a neighborhood fundraiser. The draft is close, so she edits two sentences to sound like her. Before lunch, she uses the Prepare For Interviews prompt to practice an answer about a tight deadline, and Gemini asks follow-up questions she had not expected.

By two o'clock, Priya has applied to two roles and sent one follow-up note. She closes her laptop and walks to the library to pick up her daughter. The time she won back goes to a call with a former colleague who might know of an opening.