Since its creation in 2022, ChatGPT and the other generative AI tools that followed have taken the job market by storm. Over the past year, we have seen work capabilities rapidly expand and improve.
Professionals, entrepreneurs, and leaders are beginning to use it to perform a variety of tasks that improve business profitability and job satisfaction, reduce workload, and increase customer satisfaction.
It has outperformed the job market so much that it has now become one of the most in-demand skills to thrive and succeed in today's workforce.
Now, the proportion of employers including ChatGPT and AI-related skills in job postings has increased 21-fold since 2022, and it's clear that candidates who possess these skills have the potential to stand out above the rest.
But beyond this, learning how to use ChatGPT effectively offers a host of other career-related benefits. You can use it to get a promotion, negotiate a conflict at work, and even increase your annual income beyond your usual salary.
The World Economic Forum's Global Risks 2023 report listed the cost of living crisis as a major risk threatening the world's population over the next two years, and to make matters worse, 2024 already appears to be off to a bad start. Big companies have already announced plans to lay off staff. Big tech companies such as Google,
Whether you've been affected by the latest rounds of layoffs or not, finding ways to increase or supplement your income, even temporarily, is essential to surviving in this turbulent and highly competitive job market.
How can you make money with ChatGPT?
First, you need to understand how ChatGPT works. ChatGPT is a generative AI platform that can perform a variety of tasks.
One of the main reasons why it is so effective is because the chatbot can maintain a conversational, almost human language that can adapt to different scenarios, such as explaining texts, answering questions, helping with brainstorming, and generating innovation on the spot.
To use Chat GPT effectively, you don't have to be a tech or coding whiz. You simply need to know how to provide you with the right information and the best directions for maximum results.
If you want to turn Chat GPT into a tool that accelerates your career growth and your wallet at the same time, here are five options to consider:
Will you use ChatGPT this year?
1. Use Chat GPT to help you get a promotion or raise
You can use the chatbot to help you present yourself to your employer for a promotion and consequently a salary increase. If you think you deserve to move up the ladder this year but don't know how to structure your thoughts or your achievements to date in a way that will persuade your employer,
you can enter your ideas and list your achievements in the application, and ask ChatGPT to formulate a solid argument to present at your next performance review.
You can also use it to help you in other aspects of the process; For example, you could ask him or her to provide you with an outline for a presentation, suggest relevant skills needed for your promotion,
provide you with possible interview questions for the position you are filling, and enhance (not completely create) your resume to make it for the leadership or management level.
Additionally, you may also want to consider using Chat GPT to help you compose effective, personalized work correspondence, or develop complex solutions that position you as a high performer in your role and industry, an essential and desirable quality for an aspiring leader.
2. Use ChatGPT to generate innovative business ideas
ChatGPT is a useful tool to help you with brainstorming. If you feel lost and overwhelmed by your financial circumstances, especially if you took a hit after being laid off, you can ask ChatGPT to suggest a variety of innovative and unique business ideas that suit your skills, experience, and circumstances.
You can also ask him or her to provide you with a project plan for all the actions you will need to take to start your side hustle or next major business venture, and a list of all the resources you will need.
3. Passive income with ChatGPT's GPT store
The newly launched GPT store has the ability to allow custom GPT developers the ability to earn passive income by monetizing their creations.
All you need is to follow OpenAI's guidelines, create a custom GPT that addresses a need that you know will appeal to the most people in your chosen market, and set the settings to "everyone" so it can become public.
4. Create a product or service outside of the GPT store
A new wave of startups has popped up everywhere over the past year, thanks to ChatGPT and what has been called the "AI boom."
This is because entrepreneurial thinkers have found unique ways to leverage and capitalize on the opportunities provided by ChatGPT and its underlying technology, even before the chatbot's creator launched the GPT Store.
Get creative and think outside the box about ways to fill a potential gap in the market using AI. You could even create a browser extension. Creating a product based on ChatGPT has the potential to create a legacy and sustainable income for many years.
5. Content creation
ChatGPT can be an extremely useful tool to reduce time and increase creativity when developing content for purposes such as blogging, self-promotional and marketing material to establish one's brand and even website copy.
This helps attract potential customers to your brand and services, thereby increasing your income. However, it is essential to remember not to rely on ChatGPT to generate everything.
Over-reliance can make your copy look like any other AI-generated content, making customers distrust you because you lack authenticity.
Use AI to generate ideas, suggest possible content outlines, and guide you through the writing process, but always make sure it's human-led and modified appropriately.
Today, think about how you can apply ChatGPT to your career and work environment. Not only will you notice a wealth of untapped career opportunities, but you will also be able to increase and even multiply your salary.
The options are yours. How will you use ChatGPT this year?
