The future of labor, and the very idea of a profession, is on shaky floor. While technologists and enterprise leaders prophesize over the probably financial impression of AI, employees are left questioning the place their place and goal can be within the decade forward.
With a tricky job market, the price of residing, the rise of AI and international uncertainty, it is a good time to ponder your profession. You can do that with the assistance of an AI chatbot, which might speak by means of your choices and give you a plan.
If you possibly can’t deal with one other week of Sunday scaries, you are experiencing a profession calling in one other route or just need a backup plan if robots take over, use ChatGPT as a brainstorming buddy. You also can chat by means of easy methods to negotiate a increase, write a canopy letter and resume, discover a new job and use it as a profession coach.
Career change, right here I come
This train is not for a job shift or transferring round throughout the similar business. Rather, it is to assist information your considering should you’re contemplating a whole profession change.
Quick caveat: Don’t make any vital life choices utilizing solely AI. Sit with the chatbot’s options, speak to the folks in your life, do your individual analysis and ponder on what a brand new career would possibly appear to be.
While I’m proud of my job as a contract author (sure, even within the age of AI), I’ll use myself for example of easy methods to stroll by means of the method.
According to the World Economic Forum, there can be 92 million displaced jobs, however 170 million new jobs within the subsequent decade. Meaning the following period can be extra about profession adjustments than job losses. I downloaded the 290-page doc so I might add it into ChatGPT to interpret and use in its profession shift options. You wish to decide profitable profession paths which are on the rise, not in decline.
Log into ChatGPT so it has all of the context about you from any earlier occasions you have used it for questions or recommendation. You would possibly have to feed it extra details about your pursuits, targets and life imaginative and prescient, although. If you tried the “dream day within the life” development, that is good data to make use of.
You probably have extra of an thought about what you wish to do together with your life now than you probably did if you have been 18. Use your life experiences and learnings to information ChatGPT. If you’ve gotten an thought of the world you want to maneuver into subsequent, inform ChatGPT.
If not, begin right here: “I’m at the moment a [role] at [company] and have been working in [industry] for [number of years]. I’m interested by [X], [Y], [Z]. What are some completely different profession paths and industries that might be appropriate? Use the whole lot you realize about me, in addition to this connected report back to establish profitable profession choices.”
For me, ChatGPT supplied some writer-adjacent profession choices, like a communications director, coverage author, workshop facilitator or advertising and marketing supervisor. These have been nonetheless throughout the communications realm, so I needed to specify in my second immediate that I used to be searching for a whole profession change.
But I did not love what it urged:
I advised ChatGPT that I’d be prepared to upskill and get one other diploma.
It got here up with a behavioral scientist, human-centered AI ethicist, a job in city design and coverage, and a psychological well being innovator. All of those roles have been nonetheless very “techy” and probably not what I’d be into.
I gave that suggestions to ChatGPT.
While the non-tech, high-demand job options have been a bit of nearer, nothing excited me. ChatGPT stored making an attempt to push me into sustainability and training. Two noble paths, however neither mild me up.
New profession options
This time, I advised ChatGPT that I’ve a rising curiosity in ladies’s well being and fertility, after going by means of IVF. I requested: What are some profitable, fast-growing profession paths on this sector?
ChatGPT laid out a number of doable paths, with coaching choices and incomes potential. For instance, a fertility coach, affected person advocate, coverage advocate, head of content material for a fertility model, editorial director for a ladies’s well being publication or founder for a ladies’s well being enterprise.
Now we’re speaking!
Next, I mentioned I’d slowly transition into this discipline over the following 5 years and could be completely satisfied to do extra research, then requested for extra suggestions and a timeline to work towards.
Here’s the urged roadmap:
I requested ChatGPT to tweak the timeline, based mostly on a number of adjustments, and it gave me one other up to date five-year transition plan. While the plan wasn’t excellent, it was 80% there. ChatGPT gave me concepts I hadn’t considered and supplied some fairly convincing stats, like what the fastest-growing job classes can be, predicted employment charges, wage potential and median wage.
This was an empowering train that everybody ought to do. It’s at all times good to have a plan B in place. Remember you will in all probability have to carry the AI chatbot’s hand earlier than it can attain the proper path for you — after which it’s going to be capable to provide you with concepts and data on what it is advisable to do to get the remainder of the way in which there. Just ensure you additionally speak to some actual folks earlier than committing to something.
