From the course: AI Fluency: Generative AI for Career Growth and Job Search by Microsoft and NAWB

Exploring careers with AI - Microsoft Copilot Tutorial

From the course: AI Fluency: Generative AI for Career Growth and Job Search by Microsoft and NAWB

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Exploring careers with AI

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Now that we understand the basics of AI and prompting, let's see how Copilot can help with one of the most important steps in your job search, career exploration. This is where AI really shines. We'll show you how to use Copilot to research roles and discover opportunities on LinkedIn. Here's my resume. I've worked as an administrative assistant, a customer service representative, and a server. These roles gave me skills like communication, organization, problem-solving, and data entry. It's a solid foundation, but if I want to move into a new role or even a new field, I'll need to highlight my transferable skills and maybe learn a few new ones, and this is where Copilot comes in. So first, we're going to use AI to explore what roles might fit my experience, skills, and interests. And before we jump into job titles, let's start with something simple, your interests, skills, and talents. Copilot can help you brainstorm potential career paths based on what you're good at and what you enjoy. For me, I feel like my strengths are keeping things organized, communicating, and ensuring everyone understands our plan. Perfect. Let's see what Copilot suggests based on that. I'm really good at keeping things organized, communicating well, and ensuring everyone understands the plan. What kind of jobs would fit that? Look at what Copilot suggests. Roles like project manager, operations coordinator, and even event planner. Do any of these stand out to you? I really like the idea of project manager. It sounds interesting. I like organizing tasks and keeping everyone aligned, but I'm not sure how I'd actually become one. That's a great question. And CoPilot can help with that too. Let's ask about the typical career progression for a project manager, and what skills and credentials can help you grow. Show me the typical career progression for a project manager. What's next after that, and what skills or credentials help accelerate career growth? Okay, CoPilot's response is in. It says that the typical career progression in project management, You start as a coordinator, work up to mid-level project manager, eventually reach a senior level project manager, and sometimes get to the executive level. It also identifies some skills that accelerate your career growth. Looks like leadership, strategic thinking, and communication are all great skills for project management. And that's really interesting. I didn't realize that there was such a clear path. And those skills in leadership and strategic management sound like things I'd actually enjoy developing. Exactly, and the great thing is, Copilot doesn't just give you job titles. It gives you a plan of action. So now that we know that a project manager is a good fit, the next step is finding real opportunities. Sounds good, so where do we start?

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