Build a third-grade ancient cultures unit and parent newsletter with Gemini

Check a résumé (CV) against a job ad and tailor it honestly with Copilot

Jonathan Haddock, job hunting in the UK, uploaded a CV to Microsoft Copilot and asked for improvements. Some tips weren't localized for the UK, such as phone number format, and others repeated changes already made, but Haddock rewrote the professional summary on its advice. Then Haddock gave it the job advert as a PDF. Copilot compared the two point by point and noted that writing playbooks wasn't mentioned; Haddock had done that work, so added it. By the third version, Copilot called the CV 'now a strong fit'. Haddock kept every change factual and the CV to two pages.

Land a job after a layoff using a Claude Code job-application workflow you built yourself

Mads Lorentzen, a geophysicist by training, lost their position in late 2025 and built a Claude Code workflow to run the job search: profiling their own skills, scraping Danish job portals, evaluating fit, and drafting and reviewing each tailored application, plus interview prep. Lorentzen used it weekly and told every employer about it, which they say usually sparked a technical conversation rather than counting against them. Sixty-nine tailored applications, twenty first interviews and one signed contract later, Lorentzen started as an AI engineer in June 2026, and published the workflow as an open-source project.

Track 186 applications, find missing keywords and review interview notes with Claude to land an offer

Margareth Felicia Gono, an international student who needed a visa, started job hunting scattershot. Gono built an application tracker with Claude, had it pull the main skills and keywords from each job description and compare them with the résumé, and used it as a career coach, which led to three résumés for analytics, sales and marketing, and consulting. Where interviewers allowed recording, Gono ran sentiment analysis on the notes to see where Gono hesitated or used filler words. The tracker showed 186 applications, 44 cold outreaches, 19 interviews, six take-home assignments, three final rounds and one offer, as a senior associate at DoorDash.

Land a new software job within a month of quitting, using ChatGPT for interview prep plans

Rathesh Prabakar, a senior software engineer in Bengaluru, quit in October 2025 without a job lined up. Prabakar applied before work and prepared after, and asked ChatGPT to act as an experienced résumé writer. For each interview, Prabakar gave it their skills, experience and the job description plus the time available and asked for a prep plan; a high share of the likely questions it suggested came up. Questions Prabakar couldn't answer went back to ChatGPT afterwards, and doubtful answers were cross-checked on Google. With a referral from a LinkedIn contact, Prabakar accepted an offer in early November.

Get final paychecks released within 30 minutes with an email citing state labor law, written with Grok

After two weeks of trying to get final paychecks from a former employer, Rolo had Grok help write an email citing Illinois labor laws and the consequences for the company. Several people at the company replied within 30 minutes to say the checks would be ready for pickup. Grok was explicit that it isn't an attorney.

Build a custom GPT as a job-search coach and go from 2 or 3 interviews to at least 7 and a PayPal offer

Product manager Amar Saurabh, ex-Meta and TikTok, got only two or three interviews in the first two months of applying, and plain ChatGPT kept giving generic answers and asking for the résumé again. In about an hour and a half Saurabh built a custom GPT, 'PM job search advisor', loaded with their résumé, LinkedIn profile and project details. It drafted recruiter outreach (including 300-character connection requests), tailored the résumé to each job description and prepped each interview. Over two months Saurabh landed at least 7 interviews, with companies including Reddit, Intuit and PayPal, and took a lead product manager job at PayPal.

Sort 42 bank transactions into a budget with Gemini in Google Sheets

Haroun Adamu gave Gemini in Google Sheets a sample bank export of 42 October transactions with raw entries like 'POS DEBIT KROGER #6948' and asked it to sort them into 10 existing categories. It placed most correctly, put hard ones like an Amazon purchase and a Venmo payment in 'Other' and treated a Target return as a refund. A new tab compared spending to budget and highlighted overages in red: $3,440.84 spent against a $2,830 budget, with groceries $177.36 over and household spending at more than double its $90 budget. Asked about unusual transactions, Gemini flagged two identical $24.99 Planet Fitness charges four days apart as a possible duplicate, noted four different grocery stores in 72 hours and pointed out that the data only ran through October 22, with more than a week of the month left.

Find a vet hospital with an endoscope for a dog that swallowed a needle with Gemini

Hybanth Reddy Ch's dog, Tillu, swallowed a sewing needle. The vet hospital the family went to recommended open surgery because none of its branches had endoscopy equipment, and online searches kept turning up clinics without it. About 20 minutes before the operation, Reddy typed a simple prompt into Gemini, written out of sheer disbelief: 'there is no endoscopy for dogs in Hyderabad.' Gemini's top result was a hospital in Jubilee Hills. A phone call confirmed it could do the procedure that day, the needle was removed by endoscopy within an hour, and Tillu went home the same day.

Plan four family dinners from fridge and pantry photos and save about $150 with Gemini

Amanda Caswell, a mom of three writing for Tom's Guide, kept buying food the family already had. Caswell photographed the fridge, freezer and pantry, uploaded the photos to Gemini (using the Nano Banana 2 image model) and asked for meals made from what was there, plus the cheapest items to buy. Gemini spotted lean ground sirloin, frozen broccoli, chicken, black beans and spaghetti, and built a 4-day plan: beef and bean pasta, a cheesy chicken and broccoli bake, an everything frittata and burrito bowls. Caswell estimates about $150 in savings compared with a usual weekly spend.