Using AI in your executive search
How to use AI to polish your profile, outreach and interview for executive roles.
This article provides a cheat sheet to all the ways you can use AI in your next job search and the specific prompts we’ve found most effective.
🚧 This is a work-in-progress. We love to hear AI prompts you find valuable. Drop us a line at team@whispered.com 🚧
Polishing your profile
You should NOT start looking for your next role until you have clarity on what you are looking for. See our free guide on Career Clarity before you dive deeper.
Once you have clarity, you’ll want to leverage that clarity to update how you present to the market by polishing your LinkedIn profile. A few areas on your LinkedIn profile that you can use AI include:
Your headline: This should be punchy, short and clearly emphasize a single story. Don’t be afraid to niche down vs. stay vague and don’t add tons of terms to increase searchability. That is great for junior roles but doesn’t work for senior roles.
Role Descriptions: People don’t click “see more...” to see the full descriptions on your LinkedIn. Make the first 140 characters pop.
Outreach
See our article on backdoor strategies. We will add AI prompts here soon
Interviewing
When you get an interview, a great approach is to create an AI thread for each company you are interviewing for. You can keep coming back to it throughout the interview process as it will keep the context from prior conversations.
Company Research: You need to come prepared to every interview and with AI it is easier than ever. Focus your questions on how you’ll succeed, not just on selling yourself.
Questions you may be asked: You should also anticipate questions you will be asked.
Interview Followup:
Practice Interviewing: We are seeing AI being used in Sales Enablement to help reps practice (see example company). We believe there is no substitute for live practice, either in front of the mirror or with a friend. We are excited about the potential of AI technology to intake the context of your interview and run you through AI practice. If you know of any great tools here we love to learn about them at team@whispered.com.