Use AI as a career coach

This video covers four specific ways to use AI for career advancement: running a promotion gap analysis, building your promotion case, pressure testing your positioning, and planning your long-term trajectory.

AI won't replace a great mentor or sponsor. But it can fill a gap: It's available on your own timeline, without judgment, and better at honest feedback than most people in your network. You should ask AI what strong performance looks like at the next level in your specific role and field, share where you are now, and ask it to identify where you have room to grow. That's the kind of conversation a good manager would have with you in an ideal world.

You can also ask it to reframe achievements for you in quantifiable terms that will impress your boss. There's a real difference between "I managed the redesign project" and "I led a cross-functional redesign that reduced onboarding time by 40% and cut support tickets by 25%."

This video also covers how to prompt AI specifically to account for gender bias, so it's helping you advance, not inadvertently reinforcing the same barriers.

What this video covers:

1. Promotion gap analysis: ask AI what's expected at the next level and where your gaps are

2. Build your promotion case: reframe accomplishments from activity to impact

3. Pressure test your positioning: get honest feedback before high-stakes conversations

4. Long-term trajectory planning: what skills to build, what experiences to seek, what the path looks like

5. How to prompt AI to give advice calibrated to how women specifically advance their careers

6. Two common mistakes: taking AI's output at face value, and only using AI in crisis mode

Videos by Sammy Goldstein and Bridget Griswold.