I want to get into AI, how do I do that?
How AI Is Impacting Jobs & the Workforce
In this talk, CEO & Career Coach at Woken, Rachel Serwetz, will chat with CEO, Founder, and Chief Accelerator at Kadima Careers, Alan Stein, about all things AI. If you're still feeling unfamiliar with the world of AI, this talk is for you.
Specifically, we'll dive into questions like:
- What is AI?
- Why is it everywhere right now?
- Should we be scared of AI?
- Is it coming for our jobs?
- Is it coming for humanity?
- How can people use AI, in and out of the tech field, to get ahead in work?
- What should we be worried about when it comes to AI?
- What should we be hopeful for?
Don't miss out on this opportunity to gain valuable insights and stay ahead in the rapidly changing world of work!
Meet The Speakers
Rachel Serwetz' early professional experience was at Goldman Sachs in Operations and at Bridgewater Associates in HR. From there, she was trained as a coach at NYU and became a certified coach through the International Coach Federation. After this, she worked in HR Research at Aon Hewitt and attained her Technology MBA at NYU Stern. Throughout her career, she has helped hundreds of professionals with career exploration and for the past 6.5 years she has been building her company, WOKEN, which is an online career exploration platform to coach professionals through the process of clarifying their ideal job and career path. She has served as an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Binghamton University and as a Career Coach through the Flatiron School/WeWork, Columbia University, and Project Activate. Learn more about WOKEN here: iamwoken.com.
Alan Stein is the Founder & CEO of Kadima Careers, where he is on a mission to accelerate 1 million careers by 2040.
A graduate of Columbia Business School, Alan spent nearly 30 years as a successful leader at Google, Meta, Salesforce, Tableau, and American Express. He went from Manager, to Director, to Vice-President, to Global Department Head in about 10 years. In 2016, Alan received Google’s Manager Of The Year award. When he left his last corporate job at Salesforce, he was making well over half a million dollars a year.
Today, Alan helps underrepresented, underestimated, and underpaid talent land great jobs at companies including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Spotify, Salesforce, Meta, Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, and more.
He’s spoken at MIT, Columbia Business School, Blacks in Tech, Sistas in Sales, and AnitaB.org. And he works with people 1:1 every single day to accelerate their careers. His private clients, on average, increase their annual compensation by $124,887 in an average of 356 months of coaching (data through June 2023).
Q&A
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I want to get into AI, how do I do that?
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How will AI impact the future of HR?
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What are strategic ways we can stay ahead of AI advancements while job searching?
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I'm an Office Manager slowly doing a career change into IT but I'm worried about what AI may do to potential IT careers. What is your advice for someone doing a career pivot?
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Is the current job market impact due to AI?
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How is AI impacting the future of work focused on the return to work after a career break
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What are your favorite podcasts or websites to find out about AI advancements?
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"The creature can never superintend the creator" This is my view about AI taking over the world. What do you think about this?
Posted on 2024-06-05 -
With the rapid advancement of AI technologies, what are some of the key skills that professionals should develop to remain competitive in the evolving job market? Additionally, how can AI be...
Posted on 2024-06-03 -
How is AI impacting the tech world for software applications / platforms in the way we price, market and sell ?
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How can employees and job seekers upskill or reskill to stay relevant in the age of AI?
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What are some jobs that will emerge from AI?
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How is AI being used the most within talent acquisition?
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What AI tools have you found most beneficial?
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How is recruiting going to change with AI?
Posted on 2024-05-28 -
How far are we from being able to ask AI programs like MS Copilot to do things for us, such as sending an email, going to a website, and downloading an Excel sheet? When will they be able to have...
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How can we use AI in recruitment to be more efficient, but ensure we aren't encountering biases?
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I actually enjoy writing my own work. I'm not going to lie - writing can also be excruciating but it helps me distill my thoughts. And ultimately the product is mine. Why should I use AI? And how...
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How do we proceed with AI as an organization and create some guidelines?
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What is the future of AI in the Human Resources field?
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How can AI be incorporated into workflows?
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What are the most important platforms right now within AI for marketing yourself as a potential employee? Obviously Chat GPT and Gemini, Copilot, etc. but are there others that you'd recommend,...
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How should mid-career individuals approach AI moving forward in their careers? (Should they try to learn as much as they can about AI to remain competitive, or work on other skills in their field...
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What are some of your favorite ways to use AI to improve your productivity?
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How is AI going to affect Marketing jobs? Which skillset should we equip to help us stand out?
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What are the best AI tools for screening applicants
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Is AI actually eliminating human jobs or is it really creating more human jobs?
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What are some common misconceptions about AI for small + large businesses?
Posted on 2024-05-23 -
What does HR need to do today to help our employees stay employed with the skills needed in the AI workforce?
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What are some of the current challenges with AI and how it is impacting the job market?
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How can we eliminate bias from AI?
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How can a person who is in an early career position get prepared for a work force that will be impacted by AI?
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How does the boundary change between being a user of AI tools and needing to be a subject matter expert - under the hood? Where does one need transparency (auditability) under the AI algorithm...
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How do you think AI will impact those specifically who are Knowledge Workers?
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What is the possibility or probability that people won't be able to function without the use of AI
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Which skills would survive in the era of AI where all companies are automating workflows with AI, with least human interaction.
Posted on 2024-05-05 -
I read somewhere that some companies won't consider a candidate not using AI to write their resume, but some find that a turn-off. What is true?
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How will AI help me with my product design work?
Posted on 2024-04-23