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Where Can AI Add Value in Career Development Coaching? 🚀 A new white paper by Sarah Shaw and Abby Lupi evaluates Coach, an AI-powered career tool from CareerVillage.org. While not an RCT, the study offers valuable early signals on how AI can enhance career readiness. ✅ Most learners reported their CVs, cover letters, and interview skills were employment-ready after using Coach. 🧑🎓 In a pilot with Generation.org, 81% found the tool effective for employability coaching. 🤝 90% of participants preferred a mix of AI and human coaching, showing that AI works best alongside mentors—saving time on tasks like resumé writing and freeing mentors to focus on personalized support. Here are some of our takeaways: 1️⃣ AI for Workforce Efficiency: Coach demonstrates that automating tasks like resumé building allows mentors to focus on personalized guidance. This points to AI’s potential to optimize resources and make workforce interventions scalable. 2️⃣ Blended Support as the Future Standard: Learners’ preference for hybrid coaching reflects a trend where AI augments human support, rather than replacing it, positioning AI as a key enabler of deeper, more impactful mentoring. 3️⃣ Adaptive Coaching Through Data: The ability to track mindset changes over time highlights how AI can deliver real-time feedback, refining interventions continuously and tailoring support to individual learners' journeys. 4️⃣ Democratizing Access to Guidance: AI tools like Coach show promise in reducing barriers for underrepresented learners, making career development support more accessible at scale and fostering more equitable workforce outcomes. The insights from Coach offer exciting new directions for AI in career development. To learn more, explore the full paper and join the conversation on the future of career readiness! 🔗 Full paper here: https://lnkd.in/gRwN5CJM

We have a few more Coach feature updates to share-- Two #accessibility feature updates: new text-to-speech functionality 🗣️ and improved tab navigation ⌨️! Activities also now include dynamic inline buttons, to help users navigate and learn more effectively (example in the video below)!

How are Coach's career development activities created? 🤔 Let's lift the hood! ⚙️ 💡 We source ideas from user feedback, industry trends, and expert recommendations to ensure our activities address real, current needs in the career development space ☑️ We evaluate potential activities using our Career Readiness Impact Model 📝 Career counselors and coaches in our working group create detailed activity outlines, providing a step-by-step guide and learning goals for each activity ✅ Other members of the working group thoroughly review these outlines to ensure accuracy and completeness 🏗️ Our tech team builds the activities, and then we test and iterate! For more details, check out our blog post ⬇️

"Where we learn about the kinds of activities that people most benefit from on the path to reaching their career goals, we do hope to share those insights broadly so that everybody in the sector, or just everybody in society, can be involved in making sure that everybody navigates their way to thriving occupation." We're thrilled to see TriplePundit highlighting Coach's impact on students and job seekers worldwide! 🔑 Key takeaways from the article 🔑 ✅ Coach is helping to address the critical gap in personalized #careersupport 🌎 We're now reaching users in 70+ countries and 10 languages (~63% of sign-ups are students and job-seekers from underserved communities) 🧠 The tool was developed with input from experts at 20 career development organizations Our community and partners continue to lead the way in making high-quality #CareerGuidance accessible to all -- we're so inspired and honored to be part of this movement! Read the full story to learn more about how Coach is helping level the playing field in career development: https://lnkd.in/gyEvik3J #FutureOfWork #AIForGood #EducationEquity

The new #GrownKid podcast from Gael Aitor, Kayla Suarez and Joy Coalition tackles the real challenges young adults face in their personal journeys and the working world. Tune in for valuable personal and career insights (and discover CareerVillage resources in the show notes)! Congrats as well to Schultz Family Foundation for supporting this amazing project -- we're so proud we get to work with you! Check #GrownKid out wherever you get your podcasts!

🎊 Partner Success Story ‼️ A CareerVillage.org corporate partner broke records in June during a "Global Day of Impact" volunteer campaign. Read about how companies can engage thousands of employees at once to volunteer on CareerVillage.org. ⬇️ Blog link: https://ow.ly/y3T250TJabX

Staying informed about the latest industry trends is crucial for #CareerSuccess. But with so much information out there, we want to know—how do you stay up-to-date? Whether you're scrolling through LinkedIn for the latest updates or attending that must-see conference, we're curious about what keeps you in the know. 💡 💬 Vote in the poll and share your best tips in the comments! What’s your secret to staying ahead of the curve? #IndustryTrends #ProfessionalDevelopment #CareerGrowth

Our CEO, Jared Chung, chats with Cammie Erickson, Senior Director of LinkedIn Social Impact, to answer the question, “How can nonprofit leaders most effectively use #AI within their organizations?” Thank you, LinkedIn, for your steadfast support of CareerVillage.org and Coach over the years! Together, we are building a more equitable and sustainable #futureofwork for #learners and #jobseekers!

Such a great quote highlighting the power of our partnership!

We’re proud to partner with New Relic in our mission to democratize career advice for millions of learners. Their platform has been instrumental in helping us deliver faster, more reliable experiences for the young people who rely on CareerVillage.org to access the guidance they need. By reducing our page load times by 67% and enhancing scalability, we’re now able to serve even more users at peak performance levels—especially important as we continue to grow. Plus, our engineering team has experienced a 133% boost in productivity, allowing us to innovate even faster! Together, we’re working to create a future where every student has access to the career support they deserve, regardless of where they come from. #CareerVillage #NewRelic #TechForGood #ScalingImpact #EdTech