Presenters: LaToia Burkley and Toi B. James
Session Description:
What if AI could be the career partner you've been waiting for, not the threat you've been dreading? This interactive virtual session transforms anxiety about artificial intelligence into agency. Discover how to strategically leverage AI tools to accelerate your professional growth, uncover hidden opportunities, and build capabilities that make you more valuable, not obsolete. Leave with your personalized Career Co-Pilot Strategy, list of free AI tools, and renewed confidence that your potential isn't limited by technology; it's amplified when you lead it wisely. Perfect for UC staff at any career stage, in any role, ready to explore possibilities and empower their future.
Participants will experience how AI reveals transferable skills, surfaces career pathways, and provides personalized insights at unprecedented speed. Through guided exercises, attendees will use AI in real-time to analyze skills against desired roles, identify growth areas, and map customized learning pathways.
By session's end, each person will have uncovered at least one career opportunity they hadn't considered while maintaining full authorship of their narrative. Small group discussions create space to process insights and hear how peers navigate similar questions, honoring that we discover potential through both tools and connection.
This session reframes AI from threat to strategic tool, restoring power to individuals who may feel powerless facing rapid change. When UC staff gain confidence in leveraging AI effectively while preserving dignity and values, they become models for teams and departments. We're building capacity at multiple levels: individual (AI literacy and strategy), interpersonal (shared language for AI integration), and institutional (professionals who shape AI adoption, honoring human dignity).
This session will position participants as active architects of the AI-integrated future, shifting from resignation to agency, fear to strategic action, and isolation to community.
Learning Outcomes:
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Distinguish between AI capabilities and irreplaceable human capacities to make informed decisions about technology use.
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Apply two AI tools immediately to career development using provided prompts (skills analysis, resume enhancement, interview prep).
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Evaluate AI recommendations using The Trust Test™ framework to maintain agency, ethical judgment, and authentic voice.
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Create a personalized Career Co-Pilot Strategy with 30, 90, and 365-day actions aligned with individual goals.
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Identify human skills gaining value in AI-augmented UC workplaces (contextual wisdom, relational intelligence, ethical reasoning).
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