Support career growth and development with AI

Try AI as your personal career coach

Looking for the right career or deciding which way to go at a professional crossroads? Generative AI acts as a personal, super-knowledgeable career coach, providing researched suggestions and posing questions to lead you to the best conclusion. Start a career growth convo with AI with prompts like these:

• How do I figure out the best career for me? What factors should I consider?
• I have always excelled at math, I’m a people person, and I love living in rural environments. What careers could I pursue?
• I’m committed to doing meaningful work, and I also want to maintain a good standard of living. What careers might I pursue? Please make suggestions and ask me questions to determine which might be the best fit.

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Plot your career path

Once you have a working sense of what you want to be doing, plot your career growth course with AI tools. You might take it one year or milestone at a time as you consider how to get from here to where you want to be. Try prompts like these to ask AI to suggest a route:

• I want to be a professor of literature, and I just graduated with a BA in English. How do I get from here to there?
• I would like to become a general contractor. Explain the process and lay out a timeline including significant milestones along the way.
• I’ve been in banking for the last decade, and I want to pivot to real estate investing. How can I leverage my banking experience to make this transition? Please lay out a five-year plan.

Find your next challenge to overcome or skill to build

Fortune may favor the bold, but it certainly favors the practical, too. So, use AI to get clear on the challenges or skill gaps that stand between you and the next step on your career path. From personalized assessments to upskilling recommendations, AI tools determine growth areas and suggest a course of action. Try prompts like these to find the next skill or challenge on your career development trajectory:

• Create an assessment to determine how much I need to learn about becoming a CPA.
• I keep getting passed over for a promotion. Help me figure out why and develop a plan to improve the situation.
• I want to move from assistant director of admissions to academic dean. Which skills should I work on to get there?

Come up with a career growth plan

Once you know where you’re going and how to move toward it, you’re in the perfect position to create a career growth plan. This is a concrete, step-by-step plan of how to keep momentum as you strategically move toward your career goals. A career growth plan is unique to each individual, so the more info you provide about where you’re at and where you’re headed, the better the AI growth plan. Try prompts like these to generate a career development plan tailored to your professional goals:

• I’m working to become a general contractor. I need training on licensing and project management. Create a detailed career growth plan.
• I’m an apprentice massage therapist, and I intend to run a private massage business within three years. I don’t have business experience. Develop a career growth plan with milestones and specific resources to get me there.
• I currently work as [role], and I want to move to [new role]. I have [amount] of experience, but I lack training in [skills]. Make an encouraging career growth plan that includes mantras I can keep in mind each step of the way.

With AI as an educator, career coach, and supportive conversationalist, you’ll be moving along on your career growth plan in no time. For more tools to do your best work, try Microsoft 365 for free.