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Use ChatGPT features to boost your value in the job market Everyone’s been talking about OpenAI recently. There’s OpenAI’s new AI browser, Atlas, their Coursera integration announced a few weeks ago, and their first PayPal wallet integration announced this week. But while those features have been grabbing all the attention, there’s one fresh tool/feature in ChatGPT that isn’t getting as many eyeballs, likely because it’s not targeted at mainstream individual users. Yet it’s still just as important to your professional career growth and development journey. And you’ll see exactly why in this article. The ChatGPT tool is called “Company Knowledge,” and it allows ChatGPT to access your organization’s data and plug into it so that it understands your business, and includes that knowledge in its output to better help you as an assistant. This is a major productivity upgrade, and beyond that, it has a direct correlation to salary boosting. Here’s how: What Is ChatGPT’s Company Knowledge Feature? ChatGPT’s “Company Knowledge” tool plugs into your workplace apps and integrates them into your workflow, so your chat turns into an actual assistant or co-worker that has company intelligence. (It is only currently available in Business, Enterprise, and Education Plans.) MORE FOR YOU You can connect apps like Slack, HubSpot CRM, GitHub, OneDrive, SharePoint, etc. and ask questions about any knowledge, resources or policies from those company apps. Why this is important? We’ve all faced this scenario where we need an critical email, policy or document, and the need is time-sensitive but we can’t find the resource anywhere because the instructions or documentation are not clearly categorized and stored. In Asana's latest Global AI at Work report, they refer to this as a chasm, and explain that AI can solve this chasm when implemented strategically in the workplace. This reduces the likelihood of missed deadlines and delayed projects in the event that someone is on PTO, or a co-worker has left the company entirely and no one knows where all the knowledge associated with their work is stored. How To Use This ChatGPT Tool To Boost Your Salary In our increasingly AI-driven workplace, companies prize professionals with skills that ultimately conserve resources while boosting efficiency, quality, and productivity. So, if you’re skilled in saving time and money, you provide greater value to your organization. For example, with efficiency, you’re able to complete strategic tasks faster because you have access to the right information. And when you have the technical skills to access and leverage deeper insights as a leader or manager, or even for the analytical aspects of a non-leadership role, you’re better equipped to easily spot trends, create reports, and provide support with decision-making and make more confident data-backed decisions. And through your ability to champion AI usage and produce automated workflows and work with AI agents, you and your team are more efficient, and these all correlate to a higher salary. Speed of delivery, improved insights and higher positive impact on a company’s bottom line make you indispensable, which is a major reason why having automation skills leads to promotions and higher pay. Recent research also confirms this. Job postings that listed one or more AI skills were more likely to pay 28% more than their contemporaries that did not list AI skills in the job description, according to a Lightcast report this year. Similarly, a 2024 AWS report, as well as Indeed research, confirms that generative AI skills can bump up your salary by as much as 47%. For non-technical professionals, this is a huge bonus because the ChatGPT “Company Knowledge” feature is easily able to integrate with your apps without you having to know anything about APIs or have any coding or technical expertise. Even non-technical professionals can benefit from OpenAI’s API integrations Some roles that could benefit from this ChatGPT integration include: Operations managers HR leads/people directors Business development managers Consultants For marketing, as an example, you can connect your campaign data with internal research and brand documents to help you lay out your next steps for your annual strategy. Within an HR role, you could analyze employee feedback that's stored in your company's systems and use this to recommend next steps as part of your HR strategy or L&D priorities. And for operations or IT, you could pull from logs that have been made or tickets and requests and suggest workflow and efficiency improvements. Beyond raising your value in your organization, it gives you a greater competitive edge to other employers in the wider job market as well. So today, start exploring this new feature available in ChatGPT, and test the use case in your role, ensuring that you only give it access to apps where your company allows permissions. Use it as an agent for a task today to make you more efficient. Document how much time you’ve saved and how you’re able to reinvest that time into doing something else that is revenue-boosting or directly tied to your company’s strategy. Then, share the insights and most importantly, the results from your ChatGPT experiment, on LinkedIn and with your boss and team, so that you create a culture of learning and growth within your organization. Last, but not least, don’t forget to add ChatGPT AI app integration as a skill to your resume and in your LinkedIn profile once you’re done. Editorial StandardsReprints & Permissions
