In today’s Newsletter…

1. Google Introduces Google Vids

2. 7 Smart Job Hunt Strategies You Haven’t Tried Yet

3. Top AI giants offering thousands dollars worth of AI training for FREE.

4. 7 Beginner Machine Learning Projects You Can Try This Weekend

5. New Brain-Inspired AI Beats ChatGPT at Reasoning

6. Free Job Search Platforms & Upskilling Resources

Google Just Dropped a Free AI Video Editor—And It’s Wild

Google just rolled out Google Vids, a powerful new AI-driven video editor designed to make content creation simple—even if you’ve never edited before. Think of it as Docs or Slides, but for video.

With Vids, you can start from a script, template, or even a single image. Google’s AI (powered by Gemini and Veo 3) helps transform that input into a polished video. Upload an image and it instantly animates into an 8-second clip with sound. Don’t want to be on camera? Choose from 12 AI avatars to narrate your script. Editing is just as seamless—one click removes filler words, trims awkward pauses, or resizes for social formats like portrait, landscape, or square.

Best of all, a free version is now available with core editing tools, while advanced AI features are rolling out to Workspace and AI subscribers. Google is positioning Vids as the easiest way to create professional, share-ready videos in minutes.

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7 Smart Job Hunt Strategies You Haven’t Tried Yet

The job market in 2025 is powered by AI screening, remote interviews, and skill-first hiring. If you want to stand out, here’s a step-by-step guide you can apply this week.

1. Optimize Your Resume for AI/ATS

Most companies use AI-driven Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to filter resumes.
Action steps:

• Use clear section titles: Experience, Skills, Education.

• Mirror key phrases from the job description (without keyword stuffing).

• Save and submit in PDF + Word format, unless the company requests otherwise.

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2. Build a Magnetic Digital Presence

• Update your LinkedIn headline with role + impact (“AI Engineer | Reduced model errors by 40%”).

• Post weekly insights in your field.

• Clean up your social media — employers Google you.

3. Leverage AI Tools for Your Job Search

• Use AI job-matching platforms (e.g., Teal, Pyjama Jobs, Jobscan).

• Ask ChatGPT/Gemini to generate tailored resume bullets from your experience.

• Use AI mock interview platforms to practice.

4. Network Smarter, Not Harder

• Spend 20 minutes daily engaging with posts in your industry.

• Send 2–3 personalized connection requests per week (“Loved your article on X…”).

• Join niche Slack/Discord groups where referrals happen.

5. Upskill Where the Market Is Hot

• Learn AI/ML basics, cloud, or data analytics (depending on your role).

• Showcase projects on GitHub, Behance, or Notion portfolios.

• Earn one micro-certification (Coursera/Google/AWS) this quarter.

6. Prepare for Virtual-First Interviews

• Practice with your camera on — good lighting, neutral background.

• Record yourself answering common questions, review tone + clarity.

• Have 2–3 impact stories ready (use STAR method).

7. Diversify Your Search

• Explore hidden job boards: AngelList, Otta, Wellfound, remote-specific sites.

• Reach out directly to hiring managers on LinkedIn.

• Try freelancing or contract roles to build credibility while applying.

Getting hired in 2025 is about blending digital fluency with human connection. If you can:

• Write an ATS-friendly resume,

• Show up online as an expert, and

• Build real networks…

You’ll stay ahead of 90% of applicants.

Top AI giants offering thousands dollars worth of AI training for FREE.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have released their best guides on AI skills you can learn today — for free.

These cover:

• Prompt Engineering

• Building AI Agents

• Integration Strategies

• Working with AI

• Prompting Guide by Google

• Building Effective Agents by Anthropic

• Prompt Engineering by Anthropic

• A Practical Guide to Building Agents by OpenAI 

• Identifying & Scaling AI Use Cases by OpenAI

• AI in the Enterprise by OpenAI 

7 Beginner Machine Learning Projects You Can Try This Weekend

1. Predict Titanic Survival

• Dataset: Titanic (Kaggle)

• Goal: Predict if a passenger survived.

• Skills: Data cleaning, logistic regression, decision trees.

2. Predict Stock Prices

• Dataset: Yahoo Finance stock data

• Goal: Forecast stock trends using past data.

• Skills: Time-series analysis, ARIMA, LSTM, feature engineering.

3. Build an Email Spam Classifier

• Dataset: Enron Email dataset

• Goal: Detect spam vs. non-spam emails.

• Skills: Text preprocessing, TF-IDF, Naive Bayes/SVM.

4. Recognize Handwritten Digits

• Dataset: MNIST

• Goal: Identify digits (0–9).

• Skills: Deep learning, CNNs, image preprocessing.

5. Create a Movie Recommendation System

• Dataset: MovieLens

• Goal: Suggest movies based on user preferences.

• Skills: Collaborative filtering, SVD, recommendation metrics.

6. Predict Customer Churn

• Dataset: Telco Customer Churn (Kaggle)

• Goal: Identify customers likely to leave.

• Skills: Classification, handling imbalanced data, F1-score evaluation.

7. Detect Faces in Images

• Tools: OpenCV with Haar cascades

• Goal: Locate faces in photos or videos.

• Skills: Object detection, image processing, real-time computer vision.

New Brain-Inspired AI Beats ChatGPT at Reasoning

Scientists in Singapore have created a new AI called the Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) — and it’s already outperforming leading systems like ChatGPT on tough reasoning tests.

What Makes HRM Different?

Instead of relying on billions of parameters like today’s LLMs, HRM mimics how the human brain works:

• High-level module → plans slowly and abstractly

• Low-level module → handles quick details

• Only 27 million parameters (vs. trillions in GPT models)

How Well Did It Perform?

On the ARC-AGI benchmark (meant to test true reasoning):

• HRM scored 40.3% (better than ChatGPT’s 34.5%).

• On the harder version, HRM still edged ahead with 5% vs. 3%.

• It solved puzzles like Sudoku and mazes that most LLMs fail at.

This research shows that smarter, brain-inspired design may beat simply making models bigger. While it’s still early and not peer-reviewed, HRM hints at a future of AI that’s more efficient and better at real reasoning.

Free Job Search Platforms & Upskilling Resources

General Job Boards

• https://www.linkedin.com/jobs → Professional networking + job search platform

• https://www.indeed.com → One of the largest global job search engines

• https://www.ziprecruiter.com → AI-driven job matching and alerts

• https://www.careerbuilder.com → Job listings + career advice resources

• https://www.glassdoor.com/Job → Job postings with salary & company reviews

Industry-Specific & Niche Job Boards

• https://www.inhersight.com → Jobs & career advice for women professionals

• https://www.jobsinlogistics.com → Logistics, supply chain & transport careers

• https://themomproject.com → Family-friendly jobs for working mothers

• https://recruitmilitary.com → Military-to-civilian recruiting platform

• https://remotejobsireland.com → Curated remote jobs by Rowena Hennigan

• https://www.schoolspring.com → Jobs for teachers & education staff

• https://superpath.co/jobs → Content strategist & writer job board

• https://www.workingnomads.com/jobs → Remote jobs for digital nomads

• https://vcjobboard.com → Jobs in venture capital & startups

Workforce Development Nonprofits

• https://strive.org → Tuition-free skills training + career coaching

• https://www.npower.org → Free part-time IT, cloud & cybersecurity training

• https://www.goodwill.org/jobs-training → Job training & career development services

• https://www.yearup.org → Paid internships + IT & business training for young adults

Upskilling & Learning Platforms

• https://www.coursera.org → University-backed courses & certificates

• https://www.udemy.com → Affordable courses across industries

• https://www.linkedin.com/learning → Business, creative & tech skill training

• https://www.skillshare.com → Creative classes in design, illustration, media

• https://www.edx.org → Free/paid university-level courses (Harvard, MIT, etc.)

• https://skillsbuild.org → IBM-backed free training in cloud, AI & IT

• https://academy.hubspot.com → Free marketing, sales & service courses

• https://skillshop.exceedlms.com/student/catalog → Google’s free digital skills platform

• https://learn.microsoft.com/training → Free Microsoft product training & certifications

• https://www.freecodecamp.org → Hands-on web development & coding projects

• https://ocw.mit.edu → Free access to MIT course materials

I Built Impact CV GPT That Writes Resumes Under 5 Minutes

Crafting a résumé shouldn’t feel like a full-time job.

Yet most job seekers spend hours tweaking bullet points, reformatting sections, and rewriting summaries only to get rejected without explanation.

Even worse? Many turn to ChatGPT hoping it will “just write a résumé,” but the results are usually generic, robotic, and instantly ignored by recruiters. You end up wasting even more time prompting, editing, and re-prompting and still don’t get interviews.

That’s why I built Impact CV GPT. A ChatGPT tool trained specifically on REUSME to help you Generate tailored, ATS-ready resumes in minutes. Quantified, recruiter-friendly, and built for the exact job you want. All in less than 5 minutes.

Who it’s for:

• ✅Professionals tired of rewriting résumés for hours with zero results

• ✅Job seekers frustrated by generic ChatGPT outputs that don’t land interviews

• ✅Career changers who struggle to position their experience

• ✅Students or early-career job seekers who need structure and confidence

Impact CV is in its initial phase. I want you guys to use it and let me know can I improve it.

You can share your suggestion at this [email protected]

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Until next time - shailesh and NextStepCareer