AI Tools for Career Development

Overview

AI tools can assist with drafting and organising information, but their output still needs human judgement. This proposed activity explores responsible uses in career research, application preparation and professional productivity.

The focus is on keeping your own experience and decisions at the centre. Generated text can contain mistakes, invent information or misrepresent your background. Any opportunity, employer information or application requirement must be checked against its official source before you act on it.

This is a proposed activity in the Career Development catalogue. The themes below explain its intended focus; they are not a confirmed session programme. Delivery format, dates, language, participation requirements and any costs will be communicated only after they have been confirmed.

This activity is planned. Dates, delivery arrangements and participation availability require confirmation.

What this pathway focuses on

• Frame a useful task: explain the purpose and context without entering sensitive personal or workplace information.
• Use drafts critically: adapt suggestions to your actual experience and remove invented qualifications, achievements or claims.
• Verify research: check factual statements and opportunity information against reliable official sources.
• Preserve your own voice: understand the final text and follow any rules about AI use set by the receiving institution.

Who this pathway is for

For people interested in using AI tools thoughtfully for career preparation, including beginners who want to understand their limitations.

Prepare your next step

Choose a non-sensitive career task, such as outlining a preparation checklist or improving a generic draft. Note the result you want and how you could verify it. Do not share passwords, confidential documents or private third-party information. Any participation conditions will be confirmed separately; this preparation guidance is not an eligibility rule.

What you can work towards

How to register interest

1. Review the focus of this planned activity and identify the question or skill you want to explore.
2. Use Register Your Interest to share your goals and relevant background. Do not send account credentials or sensitive documents.
3. Wait for confirmed information from EBDA before making participation arrangements. An expression of interest is not registration or a reserved place.

Sending a request or registering interest does not guarantee participation, a place or employment.

About the provider

This pathway is presented in EBDA’s Career Development catalogue. Specific delivery and partner arrangements will be confirmed before participation.