The tl;dr
- What: Tampa Bay Artificial Intelligence Meetup
- Why: To build an AI job application helper app
- When: Monday, March 17, 6 – 8 p.m.
- Where: Embarc Collective (802 E. Whiting St., Tampa)
- How you register: On the Meetup page
Details
You’ve probably heard lots of stories from friends and acquaintances about how much work you have to do to conduct a job search these days.
There are a fair number of data points showing that this is true; the Silicon Valley-based career guidance service Pathrise, says that job seekers who sent 20+ job applications every week got more interviews and landed a job sooner.
That’s a lot of work, especially since the general advice is to customize your resume for every job application.
Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a way to get some help customizing your resume for every job application you have to fill out?
With Anitra and I leading you through the steps, you’re going to build just that on Monday, March 17th at the Tampa Bay AI Meetup at Embarc Collective. Along with us, you’ll code up an AI-powered application that takes two inputs…
✅ Your resume
✅ The job description of a job you’re applying for
…and it produces a version of your resume that’s been fine-tuned in these ways:
Present you in the best possible light
Make changes so that your experiences, talents, and achievements show that you’re an excellent fit for the job
Tune your experience and skills to better match the job requirements
Update your resume to use key words and phrases from the job description
Correct spelling and grammar mistakes
Fix phrasing to be more clear and concise
Improve sentence structure and use action verbs
Bring your laptop! We’ll provide you with a “starter” project and access to an AI account, and we’ll walk you through the process of writing a Python app in Jupyter Notebook that does what we described above. In the process, you’ll learn:
About Jupyter Notebook, one of the preferred tools for AI and data science
How to make calls to an AI API
How to build an application based on an AI API
You will leave the meetup with a working Python app that does what we’ve described above: help you fine-tune your resume for specific job applications!