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A guide for job seekers over 45 and career changers

The two-page resume and interview answers, written in your voice.

A guide for job seekers over 45 and career changers in Australia. Ten prompts that build your career context document, rebuild your resume, tailor it to each ad and rehearse your interview answers, so you can apply to more of the right roles properly, instead of a few, tired.

Opens instantly · works with Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini · 14-day refund, no questions

This is for you if

  • You are over 45, or changing careers, and you are getting silence back on applications
  • Your resume has grown a page with every job for 25 years and you are not sure what to cut
  • You have an interview coming and it has been a while since your last one

Probably not for you if

  • You want an AI to apply for jobs on your behalf. This guide only drafts; you read every line and send it yourself
  • You want a guarantee of an interview or an offer. There is no such guarantee, and anyone selling one is guessing

What's inside

Ten workflows, each with the full prompt, a worked example and a few ways to make it yours.

Plus: a 20-minute setup that gives the AI your context once, the rules that keep tax file number or passport details and everything else sensitive out of it, a weekly 15-minute routine, and what to do when it goes wrong.

One of the prompts, so you can see the goods

Follow-up and thank-you messages

You are a plain-spoken careers adviser. Help me write short professional messages during a job search in Australia. My career context document is above (or saved in this Project). It contains nothing confidential.

Which message I need: [thank-you after interview / follow-up on an application with no reply / reply to a rejection / reply to a "we've gone with someone else but would like to keep in touch"]

The details:
- Who it goes to and their role: [name, title, or "the recruiter"]
- The role: [title, employer]
- When we last spoke or when I applied: [date]
- Anything specific from the conversation worth referring to: [one line, or "nothing in particular"]
- Anything I forgot to say or want to add: [one line, or "nothing"]

Write the message. Rules:
- Under 120 words for a thank-you or follow-up. Under 80 for a rejection reply.
- One specific reference to the conversation or the role, so it is clearly not a template.
- One sentence, at most, adding a point about my fit. Not a summary of my resume.
- No pressure, no "I trust you will agree", no asking when they will decide unless I asked you to.
- For a rejection reply: gracious and brief. Ask to be considered for future roles. If I said so, ask one question about feedback. No arguing the decision.
- Plain and warm. No exclamation marks. Sounds like a person who is fine either way.

Give me a subject line too. Then a version with 30% fewer words, in case I want it shorter.

If you do not know something you need, ask me one question rather than inventing it.

This is a draft for me to read and edit. Do not assume it will be sent as-is.

You get a short, specific message with a subject line, plus a tighter version, and it stays a draft until you have read it.

How it works

Pay, open, do chapter one. Twenty minutes.

  1. 01

    Pay with a card

    Stripe checkout, A$29 once. No account to create.

  2. 02

    The guide opens straight away

    On your phone or laptop, with a PDF if you want one. Bookmark the link; it keeps working.

  3. 03

    Do the 20-minute setup, then pick one workflow

    Not all of them. One this week. The guide is built to be used, not read.

One price, no subscription

A$29AUD · GST-free · one-off

  • Opens the moment you pay. Web version plus a PDF.
  • Every prompt is copy-and-paste. Nothing to install.
  • Works with Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini. A free account is enough to start.
  • Free updates for 12 months.
  • Not for you? Email within 14 days for a full refund. No proof needed.

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Who wrote this

Kate Herbert, Air Kick

I built a seven-figure ecommerce business and sold it, and I run my current company on AI agents. I coach Australian small businesses on where AI actually fits. These guides are the setups I'd walk you through on a call, written down so you can do them yourself.

If you'd rather someone did it with you: the AI Audit and AI Concierge exist for that.

Fair questions

Before you buy

Do I need to be technical?

No. If you can type an email you can do everything in this guide. There is nothing to install and nothing to code. The setup is pasting one block of text into a chat and answering questions about your career.

Which AI tool do I need, and does it cost money?

Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini. Every prompt in the guide works in all three. The free version of any of them is enough to start. If you later want the paid version, check the tool's current pricing page. We do not set or track their prices.

Is my information safe?

Chapter 2 is a short set of rules on what never goes into an AI tool: your tax file number or passport details, your date of birth, your referees' contact details until you have their permission, and anything confidential from a previous employer. Every prompt in the guide is built to work without any of it.

What exactly do I get?

A written guide. A 20-minute setup that gives the AI your career context document, the safety rules, ten complete prompts with worked examples (the two-page resume, tailoring it to an ad, the cover letter, interview prep, the age question, follow-ups, negotiating an offer), a weekly routine and a chapter on what to do when it goes wrong. Updates for 12 months.

What if it's not for me?

14 days, full refund. Email hello@airkick.co. No proof needed.

How is this different from just asking ChatGPT?

Asking cold gets you a generic resume that reads like everyone else's, because the AI knows nothing about you. This guide starts with a document about your actual career, then gives you a specific prompt for each piece of writing, with the rules that stop it inventing things built in. The setup is the difference, and you do it once.

Will it write my resume for me, or do I still do the work?

It drafts. You read every line, fix what is wrong and add what the AI could not know. Nothing goes to an employer until you would say it out loud yourself.

I am changing careers, not just job hunting at the same level. Does this still work?

Yes. Most of the prompts have a line under 'make it yours' for career changers, asking the AI to carry your achievements across into the new industry's language rather than starting from nothing.

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