A few days ago a friend sent me a message about an opportunity to work as a Maker Space coach at a local university. After discussing the opportunity with my wife she suggested I apply. I completed the online application and then toward the end of the process i needed to submit a resume. There used to be a way to use your Linkedin profile to generate a resume. They don’t offer that service anymore. I am a Canva subscriber and there is an appllication that is supposed to work but alas it wasn’t working tonight. I asked ChatGPT to create a resume with the link to my LinkedIn profile. ChatGPT won’t perform this. That’s when I tried Microsoft Copilot.
I asked Copilot if it could help me create a resume. It suggested that I drag and drop my resume into the conversation space. I searched my drive and found a resume I had written seven years ago for a graduate school application. It was a PDF. Copilot would not work with the PDF but suggested that I could use a JPG or PNG. I opened the resume document and took a screen picture of it and saved the file as PNG. Then I uploaded it to Copilot. I just a few seconds Copilot read my resume and printed it out on the display. Using Copilot I instructed it to add the new additions and corrections to my resume and it did a wonderful job of that. It was incredibly easy.
Copilot provides all of it’s output in Markdown. I decided to convert the Markdown to PDF so I copied and pasted the output into my favorite MarkText which is my favorite Markdown editor, saved the file and then exported it to a PDF. I uploaded the PDF with my application and submitted it. If you find yourself in a situation like I did tonight I suggest you try using Microsoft Copilot and open source tools like Screenshot on Linux Mint and Marktext