I designed a custom GPT that helped me land 7 interviews and a job offer from PayPal — here's how (www.businessinsider.com)

Amar Saurabh, a product manager, built a custom GPT using ChatGPT’s “custom GPT” feature to personalize his job search—and in two months it helped him secure seven interviews (Reddit, Intuit, PayPal) and a PayPal offer. Frustrated by generic or context-mixing replies from regular ChatGPT, he spent about 1–2 hours prepping a dedicated assistant—uploading his résumé, LinkedIn, project details and target role context (he used the $20/month paid tier to upload more documents). The bot drafted tailored LinkedIn and email outreach (including 300-char connection requests), found contacts, refined resumes to match job descriptions, and prepped interview talking points by ingesting job descriptions and interview dates. He also used it to negotiate his offer. The case highlights how lightweight, task-specific custom GPTs can materially improve outcome quality—more responses and interviews—without increasing application volume. Key technical takeaways: building a focused assistant is fast and practical through ChatGPT’s custom-GPT workflow, but limitations remain (occasional forgetting/hallucinations, need for reminders, privacy and document limits on free tiers). Amar sees further upside in adding agentic capabilities to automate applications, illustrating both near-term productivity gains for career workflows and the broader potential and risks of specialized LLM-based agents.