AI tools for career coaching
If you’re between jobs or careers right now, a couple of AI tools could be useful thought partners for you. You can also ask a direct report or mentee on your team to try the following and bring the results to your next 1:1 meeting.
Google’s Career Dreamer: You input your job experiences and interests, the Dreamer suggests jobs and careers that match those and then helps you draft a resume and cover letter.
Prompt Claude to act as your career coach: Use the prompt below as a template or mad lib. You fill in the categories with your own desiderata.
Template: “Please act as a [trait], [trait], and [trait] career mentor. Based on the information in my LinkedIn profile [link to profile], what job or career should I consider next if I want to maximize my [form of impact: income, status, positive impact on the world] by using my [skill / experience / interest]?”
Example: “Please act as a wise, artistic, and philosophically attuned career mentor. Based on the information in my LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericparrie/ what job or career should I be considering next if I want to maximize my positive impact on the world by using my creativity?”
AI can see patterns humans don’t and then suggest places those patterns can lead. I’ve found this can apply to a dataset as small as my own resume.
-eric
