How I got AI to crack that interview

Cosmo India intern Siddharth Jain gets hacking on the hustle.

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Let’s be real—finding a job in today’s economy? A nightmare. It’s a battlefield where resumes are casualties, rejection emails pile up like spam, and job descriptions demand five years of experience for an entry-level role. It’s frustrating, exhausting, and frankly, debilitating. You send out 20, even 30 applications and you are most likely to meet with radio silence.

That’s most of us. That was me. Job-hunting in the fast-paced world of fashion, marketing, and PR, trying to land a gig where my creativity wasn’t just appreciated but incorporated. Let's just say the corporate world didn’t exactly roll out the red carpet for me.

My CV? Too fancy. Too colourful. Too much when all they wanted was a clean, no-nonsense, monochrome document that screamed corporate compliance.

Then, one day, amid all the “We regret to inform you...” emails, an AI-generated ad caught my eye. Usually, I scroll past these. But this one? It hit different. “Update Your CV with AI & Land Your Dream Job.”

Desperate times call for desperate measures. And if AI could be my survival kit in this cut-throat job market, why not give it a shot?

First, AI came for my LinkedIn. Turns out, in the corporate world, your LinkedIn profile is your social identity (buh bye Instagram). It needed to be polished, optimised, and, most importantly, not just a glorified resume but a storytelling platform where achievements shine like an influencer's selfie in golden-hour lighting.