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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