Jeff's Daily Dose: Straight Talk About Your Career

The #1 thing you can do to safeguard your career right now?

Invest 1 hour per day learning, experimenting with, and using AI tools. One. Hour.

I know that sounds dramatic. But I've been recruiting for 30 years. Which means I'm old enough to have watched these tech waves roll through ... dot-com, mobile, social, and more. And here's what I've seen every single time: the people who are last to jump on the adoption curve often don't make it.

Management Teams do the math.

They look at the cost of driving behavior change in someone who's resistant ... and decide it's easier to just hire someone who already gets it.

I'm no tech genius. Yet I can assure you the tools are far easier to use than you might think. You need not become an expert. But by now, it's clear that AI is not going away. Becoming proficient is the single best thing you can do to protect your (current) job & your (future) career.

And if you happen to become excellent at it? Perhaps even enjoy it? Then, position yourself as an AI Champion within your department, your team, your company. You'll be seen as a leader. Looked to for guidance & expertise.

1 hour per day. That's it.

p.s. If you're currently not working, I'd up it to 2 hours.

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