Coach

?? Our team will be at #NCAN2024! We're excited to show you Coach, our AI-powered platform that provides learners with personalized postsecondary and career guidance. You can demo our new, easy-to-use educator tools and student-facing activities and modules at our booth. See you next week! #AIinEducation #EdTech #CareerGuidance #Postsecondary #EducatorTools #StudentSuccess #HigherEd #FutureReady #CollegeAccess

A new article from Colleen Connolly in Work Shift highlights the ways that Coach can help job-seekers at all stages of their #careers, from mock interviews and resume help to understanding job qualifications, and so much more! Our amazing partners at Opportunity@Work and MassHire Berkshire Workforce Board also get a mention! Check it out:

?? New Research Alert: AI in #CareerDevelopment ?? We're excited to share our white paper: "Evaluating Career Development Outcomes for Coach, a GenAI Project by CareerVillage.org" (credit: Abby Lupi and Sarah Shaw) At CareerVillage, we're constantly exploring innovative ways to democratize access to #careerguidance. Our AI-powered tool, Coach, represents a significant step in this direction. But how effective is it really? ?? Early research provides some intriguing insights: ?? 81% of participants in a small pilot study run by Generation.org reported that Coach provided effective employability coaching ?? Participants spent less time on resume creation and interview preparation?(potentially freeing up time for more personalized mentorship) ?? 90% of participants prefer a blend of #AI coaching and human mentorship The white paper also introduces a comprehensive impact model for AI-assisted #careerreadiness, providing a framework for future research and development in this emerging field. We invite educators, career development professionals, researchers, and anyone interested in the future of career readiness to read the paper and join the conversation. Big thanks to the external parties with whom we have discussed these ideas over the past few years, including colleagues at Leanlab Education, WestEd, and RAND. We’d also like to thank Daniel Jarratt, Richard Sedlmayr, Julia Freeland Fisher, and Kyle Thornton!

After 6 months of working closely with 20 #nonprofits from all over the world, the Google.org #Accelerator: Generative AI program is coming to an end. The orgs are showcasing their impactful #genAI projects at the first ever Google.org Impact summit today. Watch the Summit live ??? goo.gle/impact-summit-live. Also, BREAKING NEWS ?? : Google.org's VP Maggie Johnson just announced their commitment to another Google.org Accelerator in addition to $30M in funding. Can't wait to do this all over again in 2025! Shout out to the best partners: Erin Hattersley, Aaron Ogle, Omar Medina, Philip K Yeo, Karla Palmer, Fiona Soderberg, Gabriel Doss, Danie Theron, Janelle Kuhlman, Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink and Jen Carter and the organizations who are trusting us: Full Fact, Quill.org, Beyond 12, CareerVillage.org, Climate Policy Radar, CodePath, EIDU, IDinsight, Jacaranda Health, Justicia Lab, Materiom, mRelief, Opportunity@Work, Partnership to End Addiction, Tabiya, Tarjimly, U.S. Digital Response, International Rescue Committee, The World Bank. Read more about the amazing work #GoogleOrg is doing to help nonprofits harness the potential benefits of #AI → https://lnkd.in/dnuMvj8k #GoogleOrg #AcceleratedWithGoogle Google

In an op-ed for Language Magazine, CareerVillage founder and executive director Jared Chung suggests three ways #AI can help us fix the #careerreadiness crisis—IF we get it right ??:

Here it is: the official launch announcement! Congratulations to everyone!

?? Exciting News! CareerVillage is part of FIVE SXSW EDU session proposals this year, all about #careerreadiness, #careerdevelopment, #careerpathways, and the #futureofwork! We need your support to help make these sessions a reality. To support us, please upvote each of our session proposals by following the links below. You’ll need to create an SXSW account – this does NOT mean you’re registering for the conference. Once your account is set up, simply click the up arrow (??) in the top right corner of each session page. Here are the sessions we--and amazing partners from Clayton Christensen Institute, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, American Student Assistance, Per Scholas, GitLab Foundation, Clever Inc., Instructure, EDSAFE AI Alliance, Worktour, Get Schooled, Uprooted Academy, REACH Pathways--are proposing: Navigation & Guidance in the Age of AI ???? (https://lnkd.in/gzgt6fWP) Harnessing AI & Tech to Prepare Youth for Career Success ?????? (https://lnkd.in/gwsQFJS3) Pilot to Practice: Implementing AI in Career Development ???? (https://lnkd.in/g-7sNfex) AI Coalition Building for Daring Systems Change ???? (https://lnkd.in/g6eGX6_s) How Philanthropy & EdTech Are Shaping Career Development ???? (https://lnkd.in/gCCUeAbr) Thank you for your support! Together, let's make career readiness a reality for all. ?? #SXSWEDU #CareerVillage #AI #EdTech #CareerDevelopment #Philanthropy Julia Freeland Fisher, Tiffany G., Brooke McKean, Lee Waldvogel, Franny Lee, John Branam, Aras Jizan, Noah Mitchell, Dr. Jordan Mroziak, Melissa Loble, Jeff Carlson, Matt Zieger, Jared Chung, Rebecca Gitomer, CPA

Excited to see Coach highlighted by AI4America ?? There among some pretty awesome company, including Zoom, Intuit, DoorDash, and Amazon.

Find our team at JFF Horizons next week in Washington DC to learn more about Coach, our #AI career development platform. We'll be in Sun-Tue (7/21-7/23) celebrating Coach with many of our long-time friends Opportunity@Work, The College Board, American Student Assistance and more! Thanks to Jobs for the Future (JFF) and #jffhorizons for hosting!

CareerVillage and Coach feature in this thoughtful article by Sara Herschander in The Chronicle of Philanthropy on the use of AI in the nonprofit sector: "Yet for A.I. advocates like Jared Chung, the investments and care required to constantly debug and monitor for biases of A.I. systems are worth the possibilities they present. He argues that while it’s important to be thoughtful and cautious about the use of A.I., ultimately the decision should be driven by the needs and preferences of the people nonprofits serve. In CareerVillage’s case, the positive feedback from students and the impact that Coach is having on their career prospects makes the investment in A.I. worthwhile, he says." Awesome nonprofits also mentioned: Fast Forward, Koko, Playlab AI ??