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What never goes into a chatbot
Employers, references, salaries and other people's details.
Job hunting involves other people's information: your current employer's plans, a client's name, a colleague's role, a reference's contact details. None of that belongs in a general chatbot, whatever it says about privacy.
Describe situations generically. “A retail client” instead of the brand. “My manager” instead of a name. You lose nothing in the rewrite and you keep a confidence that was never yours to share.
Salary figures, health information and anything under a non-disclosure agreement stay out entirely. If a tool needs them to help, it is the wrong tool for that step.
- Generic descriptions work just as well.
- Confidential and other people's details stay out.
- The wrong tool for a step is not a tool to use.
BEEP / THE MYTH-BUSTER
Rule of thumb: if you would not shout it across an open-plan office, do not paste it into a chat box. The office at least forgets.
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Read your achievement back as though your old employer were reading over your shoulder. Take out anything that would make them wince.
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