Using AI in Your Job Search: What You Need to Know

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Sep 9, 2025

Marlo Lyons, a seasoned career coach and HR pro with over 20 years of experience, shares invaluable insights into the evolving role of AI in job searches. She highlights how to leverage AI tools like ChatGPT while emphasizing the importance of authentic human connections. Marlo discusses the necessity of mastering soft skills and offers strategies for crafting resumes that appeal to AI scanners. She addresses the balance between technology and personal touch in interviews, reminding listeners that enthusiasm remains key in both human and AI interactions.

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INSIGHT

Prioritize AI‑Resistant Soft Skills

AI-resistant capabilities are soft skills like communication, stakeholder alignment, and how you get work done.
Mastering the "how" makes you more likely to stay employed than only mastering technical "what" skills.

ANECDOTE

Career Reinvention Across Industries

Marlo moved from TV news to law to reality‑TV production law, then into HR and executive coaching across industries.
She used coaching certifications and on‑the‑job upskilling to translate her strengths across fields.

ADVICE

Make Networking Your Primary Job Search

Network proactively and offer value before you need a job; treat it like building organic relationships, not transactional asks.
Get out of the house, volunteer, and make connections that lead people to help you when roles open.

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How can you leverage AI to help you choose, prepare for, and land your next great job? A lot of you are planning or in the thick of the job search right now, and with the ever-increasing AI involvement in company hiring practices, the landscape looks a lot different than even a few years ago. This conversation with Marlo Lyons, a career coach, author, and HR pro with 20 years of experience, is here to help you navigate these choppy, rapidly changing waters.

Marlo and I discuss what’s changed (AI interviewers) and what hasn’t (building real connections is still vital). She shares her expert advice on how AI programs can help you not only prepare for applications and interviews, but also uncover a new career that really aligns with your values. The robots can’t do everything for us, but they definitely belong in your toolbox.

Get Marlo’s expert tips on how to (and not to) incorporate AI into your job search:

How to find your AI-resistant capabilities;
Why networking is still a key piece in an AI-driven work world;
How to use an LLM like ChatGPT to help you prepare and apply;
The kind of resumes AI scanners are looking for;
Nailing that first interview with an AI agent.