About the Talk:

This talk demonstrates how ChatGPT can be a practical, supportive tool to help people get a job—from figuring out what to apply for, to telling their story clearly, to preparing for interviews and offers.

In a job market where first impressions are made quickly, it can be hard to know how to stand out to would-be employers. We’ll walk through how AI can help you see what employers are looking for, highlight your real strengths in your resume and cover letter, rehearse for your interviews, and focus your time on what actually moves the needle.

At its core, this is about using AI to expand opportunity by giving more people the tools, clarity, and confidence to take the next step in their careers. Our goal is simple: help you turn AI into a real advantage as you take your next career step — alongside a community that’s rooting for you.

About the Speakers:

Selena Ma

Selena Ma leads Recruiting Programs at OpenAI, where she is responsible for building and scaling the company’s top-of-funnel talent pipelines, including the Internship and Research Residency programs. Her work focuses on identifying, attracting, and developing exceptional early-career talent to support OpenAI’s rapidly growing engineering and research teams.Selena began her career through an unconventional path. After studying International Relations at the University of California, Irvine, she applied for a finance internship and was instead encouraged by a recruiter to explore a future in recruiting. That moment proved pivotal. What began as an unpaid internship became the foundation of a career dedicated to discovering and developing high-potential talent.She went on to build early-career and campus recruiting programs at Google and Facebook, and later at an early-stage startup founded by former Facebook leaders. Across these roles, Selena developed a deep expertise in designing programs that give candidates access to high-impact opportunities at the world’s leading technology companies.Throughout her career, Selena has remained focused on early-career hiring, driven by the belief that a person’s first professional opportunity can meaningfully shape the rest of their career. At OpenAI, she brings that conviction to building inclusive, rigorous, and high-impact programs that connect extraordinary emerging talent with some of the most important work in AI.

Natalie Cone

Natalie Cone designed and launched the OpenAI Forum in Summer of 2023 and now leads OpenAI’s interdisciplinary community of experts. The OpenAI Forum is a community designed to unite thoughtful contributors from a diverse array of backgrounds, skill sets, and domain expertise to enable discourse related to the intersection of AI and an array of academic, professional, and societal domains. Before joining OpenAI, Natalie managed and stewarded Scale’s ML/AI community of practice, the AI Exchange. She has a background in the Arts, with a degree in History of Art from UC, Berkeley, and has served as Director of Operations and Programs, as well as on the board of directors for the radical performing arts center, CounterPulse, and led visitor experience at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.