Free short course

AI for Your Job Search

Find what you have, say it properly, and prepare for the room

Transferable skills you had not named, applications that match the actual advert, and interview practice against a sceptical interviewer.

Rahul Arora

Founder, Automate Basics

Level
BeginnerBuilds on an earlier course
Lessons
9Plus one practice brief
Content
90 minRead at your own pace
Price
FreeNo exam, no certificate

What you’ll be working on

  • Job search
  • CV
  • Interviews

Freeto read, all of it

The first lesson needs no account. A free account opens the rest — no card, nothing to cancel.

What this course includes

  • 9 lessons · 90 min
  • One practice brief on your own work
  • No exam and nothing to pass
  • Nothing locked, nothing gated
  • No subscription — this site does not have one

Where this leads

Two reasons to go on. A verifiable credential is a line on the CV you are about to send, with a URL an employer can check. And the job you are interviewing for will expect you to use these tools on real work without being caught out by them, which is exactly what AIE-100 assesses.

AIE-100: AI Essentials

Who this is for

  • You are applying and hearing nothing back
  • You are changing career and cannot articulate what transfers
  • You freeze in interviews and want somewhere to practise that costs nothing

Recommended after Prompting That Works. Nothing is locked, so if you already have the skills, start here.

What you'll be able to do

This is what the course covers. Nothing else is claimed, and none of it is assessed.

  • Produce an evidenced list of your transferable skills, in the language employers use
  • Tailor a CV and covering letter to a specific advert without inventing anything
  • Prepare properly for an interview, including the questions you are dreading
  • Recognise where AI in a job search will actively harm you

Where this leads

AIE-100 · AI Essentials

Two reasons to go on. A verifiable credential is a line on the CV you are about to send, with a URL an employer can check. And the job you are interviewing for will expect you to use these tools on real work without being caught out by them, which is exactly what AIE-100 assesses.

  • Everything in AIE-100 is free to read, and the assessment is free to sit.
  • Pass it and the certificate is yours for $49, once — never a subscription.
  • Verifiable by anyone, with no account and no login.
  • No renewal, no expiry, no annual fee.

Automate Basics

Certificate of Competency

AIE-100

This certifies that

Your name

has passed the final assessment of the AI Essentials certification.

The holder declares the course’s lessons and live applications complete; the assessment result above is machine-marked by the issuer.

Assessed competencies are published with this credential at automatebasics.com/verify

Credential ID

AIE-100-2026-·······

Verify at automatebasics.com/verify

The curriculum

Every module, every lesson and every duration, before you decide. All of it is free, and there is nothing to buy on this course.

Modules
3
Lessons
9
Practice briefs
1
Total time
about 90 min
  1. 1

    Working out what you actually have

    Most people undersell themselves because they cannot see their own work from the outside. This is what these tools are genuinely best at.

    3 lessons · 11 min

    1. 1.1The transferable skills interviewYou can run an interview on yourself that ends in named skills, each with a specific example attached4 min
    2. 1.2Reading a job advert properlyYou can separate the requirements an employer will actually test from the boilerplate, and tell which of your gaps are answerable4 min
    3. 1.3Deciding what to go afterYou can cut a generated list of plausible roles down to three you can defend, and name the trade-off each one carries3 min
  2. 2

    The application

    Tailoring properly, without producing something that will collapse in the first interview.

    3 lessons · 14 min

    1. 2.1The CV, tailored and trueYou can turn a duty on your own CV into an evidenced achievement without adding a single fact you could not defend4 min
    2. 2.2Covering letters people actually readYou can produce a covering letter under 250 words that names the employer's problem and evidences you against it3 min
    3. 2.3Screening systems, and what is actually trueYou can check your own CV file for the parsing and wording faults that lose you a search, without resorting to tricks7 min
  3. 3

    Interviews and after

    The best use of AI in the whole job search is rehearsal, and almost nobody does it.

    3 lessons · 18 min

    1. 3.1Rehearsing against a scepticYou can run a spoken rehearsal that pushes back on vague answers, and get a critique naming which would not survive a follow-up3 min
    2. 3.2Building the answers worth havingYou can build six interview stories that each carry a specific action and a real outcome, and hear which sentence is too long11 min
    3. 3.3Where AI will actively harm your job searchYou can recognise the four places where using AI makes you a worse candidate, and know what to send when a take-home task says nothing about it4 min

Practice brief

A brief completed against your own work with a published rubric. Free, like every lesson.

  1. One real application, end to end

    45 min

    The two newly articulated skills with their evidence, the three rewritten bullets, the letter, and your notes on which interview answers were weak.

No exam, no certificate

This is a short course. It is free, there is nothing to pay and nothing to sit, and it does not issue a credential.

It leads to AIE-100, AI Essentials.

See AIE-100

Start AI for Your Job Search

First lesson is 4 minutes and needs no account.

  • Your place is kept — pick up on your phone where you left off on your laptop
  • Lessons you have finished stay finished, even if you clear your browser
  • Assessment results are recorded against you, permanently

Free account, no card, nothing to cancel.