Bengaluru techie uses ChatGPT to land 7 interviews in 2 months and a job at PayPal: Report

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Artificial intelligence may be disrupting the job market, but some professionals are using it to gain an edge rather than fear it. One such example is Amar Saurabh — a Bengaluru-educated techie and former Meta and TikTok product manager — who built his own custom GPT to supercharge his job search. Within two months, his experiment led to seven interviews and eventually a lead product manager role at PayPal.

Saurabh, who graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering from B.M.S. College of Engineering in Bengaluru and a Master’s degree in Product Management from Carnegie Mellon University, had spent five years at Meta and TikTok before deciding to look for something more stable in the US. After months of limited responses to job applications, he turned to ChatGPT for help — but the results were initially underwhelming.

“The chatbot kept mixing up responses and asking me to re-upload my résumé,” he told Business Insider. That’s when he realised he needed a dedicated version tailored for his job search.

In less than two hours, Saurabh built a customised GPT using OpenAI’s tools. He called it “PM job search advisor” and fed it detailed information — including his résumé, LinkedIn profile, and past project summaries. The GPT was trained to target senior-level product management roles.

Using a $20-per-month paid version of ChatGPT, Saurabh’s personalised bot helped him:

• Draft tailored LinkedIn connection requests and recruiter emails
• Optimise his résumé for each job description using relevant keywords
• Identify the right contacts at companies and even locate email addresses
• Prepare for interviews by analysing job descriptions and highlighting relevant experiences from his résumé

The number of job applications Saurabh submitted didn’t change but the results did. Within just two months, he secured interviews with companies like Reddit, Intuit, and PayPal. The GPT occasionally forgot details and needed reminders, but Saurabh says those lapses were no worse than human memory.

He ultimately accepted PayPal’s offer and now plans to expand his GPT’s functionality even further. “My next step is to make it agentic, able to apply to jobs and answer application questions automatically,” he said.