3 Google AI tools that helped me get my new job

Feb 26, 2026

From identifying career throughlines to transforming mock interviews, I used AI as a thought partner to find clarity and confidence for my next move.

Abby Crowe

Keyword contributor

An illustration shows a blonde woman looking at a laptop. A floating digital card next to her displays "Career Identity Statement," along with a "Re-generate" button and an "Explore paths" button.

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My Google career looks more like a lattice than a ladder. A start in advertising sales led to brand sponsorships, then content marketing and now a new role in employee engagement, where I’m helping further strengthen a culture that motivates people to do their best work. It’s a path that’s allowed me to grow my skills, network and influence, but it’s rarely been easy to figure out what I should do next and how best to prepare. Hello, analysis paralysis. Fortunately, I had a new form of help during this latest transition: Google AI.

1. NotebookLM

I started considering my next move more than a year ago after a career conversation with a manager. Encouraged to get curious about what I wanted for my future, I started accumulating job postings and professional profiles that stood out to me in a dedicated notebook in NotebookLM. I added my own resume, peer feedback, formal reviews and various strength-based assessments. Grounded in all of those sources, I could ask questions to identify patterns in roles and how my unique profile matched, often helping me understand critical skills needed and any gaps to fill. Over time it also confirmed some core career throughlines — my passion for people, purposeful storytelling and building new things among others — allowing me to bring intention into what I pursued next.

A screenshot of a digital notebook interface. On the left, a 'Sources' list includes Peer Feedback," "Strengths Assessment," "Feedback: Team Project," and "Resume," all checked, and "Company Culture Role," "Engagement Role," and "Marketing Description," which are unchecked.

2. Career Dreamer

Next, I turned to Career Dreamer, which I first read about as a way to map transferable skills to new directions. Using it myself felt like a permission slip to think expansively. The act of building out my resume in the tool also helped me name and reconnect to skills and core interests I’d overlooked. But my favorite element was the identity statement, which reframed my lattice path into a more cohesive professional brand I could further polish.

A screenshot of a messaging interface. The screen shows a drafted professional identity statement.

3. Gemini

Finally, I used Gemini, and not just as a copyeditor to refine my resume and cover letters. It also helped me evaluate different roles against each other, but more importantly against my strengths, goals and potential longer-term trajectories. How might Role A help me be a better career coach? Or writer? If I want to pursue a dream to launch a brand built around human connection someday, does Role B offer more transferable skills? By reframing opportunities and posing critical questions back to me, Gemini helped me find clarity.

When interview time arrived, I created a custom Gem designed to simulate potential questions and give critical feedback based on my responses. I then turned walks into mock interviews as I practiced aloud with Gemini Live. By the time I sat down for the official meeting, I felt resolute and prepared for what had become a familiar conversation with tailored versions of my best stories.

A Gemini Gem offering feedback and tips based on a practice interview

I’ve had incredible support from managers, mentors, coaches, family and friends while navigating my career. I’m happy to add AI to that list — not as a replacement for human wisdom, but as another collaborative partner to help me on my path wherever it may go next.