AI Quick Guide: Networking For Your Job Search
Use this guide to expand your professional network and unlock job opportunities!
Think of AI as a fast, helpful brainstorming partner—it’s full of ideas but works best when you provide clear prompts.
AI will help you:
- Find the right people to reach out to, like alumni, recruiters, or hiring managers.
- Write personalized outreach messages that are more likely to get replies.
- Get help with things like thank you notes, follow ups, professional introductions, and more!
🤖 HOW TO USE AI TO GROW YOUR NETWORK
What You’ll Do:
- Find key contacts at your target companies.
- Write personalized messages to grow your network.
What You’ll Use:
- Sign up or log in to a free account on ChatGPT or Perplexity. Note: You can use these without logging in, but features are limited.
⚠️ Important Tips Before You Use AI
- Use AI to help with your job search but always check its suggestions and use your own judgement.
- Don’t share personal information, like your own or others’ full names, address, or contact details when using AI tools.
- AI tools often use your data to improve their models, so anything you share could be included in training. To protect privacy, use incognito mode or adjust the platform’s data-sharing settings. Here’s how to do that for ChatGPT.
- Before using AI, think about the networking task you want help with. For example, do you need to write a message to a new connection, follow up after applying, or get ready for a career conversation?
- What is a Prompt? – A message you type to tell the AI what you want and guide its responses.
- How to Enter Your Prompt:
- ✅ Type your prompt into the AI chat box (see example prompts below)
- ✅ Press Enter (computer) or tap the send arrow (phone) to submit your prompt.
- 👉 Clear Input = Clear Output! The more details you give, the better the AI can help. If the first response isn’t quite right, try rephrasing your prompt, asking follow-up questions, or asking the AI to be more specific.
- Read the AI’s reply and make it your own. Add your own details, ask follow-up questions to get better answers, or use it to plan what you want to say in a real conversation.
PROMPT LIKE A PRO
▶️ Watch This Video.
Learn how to use the AIM formula to create clear and effective AI prompts that help you write better networking messages and build connections faster.
▶️ Download the Networking AI Prompt Cheat Sheet
Get ready-to-use prompts for common networking situations like LinkedIn connection requests, referral requests, and follow-ups.
