How to Use AI to Avoid Losing Your Job & Boost Your Career

Benefits of this guide

1. Avoid losing your income in this unstable economy

2. Inject purpose & meaning to your work

3. Future-proof your career amidst AI disruption

4. Get personalized career advice to suit your unique needs

Worried about your job or eager to grow your career? In our fast-paced tech world, avoid risks like redundancy and income loss. Use technology to boost your career, income, and happiness. Create a future-proof career that thrives in change.

The Quick Story

I’ve got a confession, I’ve just been through a career crisis:

I left a safe job to work for myself. But then AI disruption + the weak economy turned this adventure into a nightmare.

I tried using AI to guide me, and the results were amazingly helpful to bring me out my crisis.

This guide shows you exactly how you can also boost your career, no matter your situation or challenges.

Start here: What is Incremental AI Prompting?

Incremental Prompting is:

1. A multi-step prompt

2. Each step gives more context & complexity

3. So you get expert AI results

Incremental Prompting is ideal for:

• Complex and unique situations (like your career)

• Avoiding vague AI responses (from single prompts), get clear, detailed & relevant answers

Lets dive straight into the 7 steps

1. Step 1: Prompt AI to give you the expert questions you need to answer

2. Step 2: Answer the questions with as much detail as you can (facts, feelings & your unique goals), upload your answers to ChatGPT

3. Step 3: Prompt AI to give you expert career advice

4. Step 4: Prompt AI to list opportunities that fit your desires, goals & skills

5. Step 5: Prompt AI to analyze pros, cons, time & difficulty for Each Idea

6. Step 6: You must now choose your Top 3 (or less) ideas to pursue

7. Step 7: Prompt AI to make practical goals, a monthly guide & a weekly to-do list

The 7 steps in action

Step 1: Prompt AI “list Questions an expert career advisor would ask to understand & help a client”

• How this step helps: This step assists you in discovering the essential questions that experts would ask, helping you provide the right information to the AI for better guidance.

• Tips to make this step more useful: Pick out the questions that are most relevant to your situation, but don’t be afraid to include the hard questions (these give the most valuable results).

Step 2: You must now answer with as much detail as you can (facts, feelings & your unique goals), upload your answers

• How this step helps: This is a chance for you to offload all your frustrations and aspirations. Use the questions to guide you. By providing specific information about your work experience and feelings, you allow the AI to better understand your unique circumstances and offer personalized advice.

• Tips to make this step more useful: Talk about your weaknesses and fears, as well your strengths. Be thorough and honest, including both facts and emotions related to your current job, skills, interests, and long-term goals. Take an honest hard look at your reality. Finally be sure to include your ideal future, even if its bold and seems unachievable.

Step 3: Prompt AI “using this info, please give objective & practical career advice”

• How this step helps: The AI will analyze your input and provide tailored recommendations to achieve your desired results.

• Tips to make this step more useful: Remember this advice is high level so you can choose to accept or ignore it. But try be open to at least consider new possibilities.

Step 4: Prompt AI “list many examples of Ikigai-Compatible work ideas that fit my needs & goals”

• How this step helps: The AI will suggest work ideas that align with your Ikigai: what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for. Combining these is a powerful and complex task, but it gives

• Tips to make this step more useful: Reflect on each suggestion and consider whether it resonates with your personal values and interests. Remember there is no “perfect job”, but there are jobs that will be “hard but fulfilling & rewarding”

Step 5: Prompt AI “assess Pros, Cons, Time and Difficulty for each idea”

• How this step helps: The AI will analyze each idea helping you make an informed decision. This step gives detail and reality which will help you compare ideas to each other, and find the best ideas for you to pursue.

• Tips to make this step more useful: New ideas are exciting but this step helps you look at the harsh realities. Anything worth doing, will take time & effort. You need to understand which ideas are worth your time & effort.

Step 6: You must now choose your Top 3 (or less) ideas to pursue

How this step helps: By narrowing your focus, you can concentrate on a few viable options rather than becoming overwhelmed with too many possibilities.

Tips to make this step more useful: Concentrate on fewer ideas to prevent being stretched thin. You can explore other ideas later. If you have a day job, consider pursuing just one side hustle.

Step 7: Prompt AI to “Make SMART goals, make a Monthly Guide, and a Weekly To-Do List to achieve these goals”

• How this step helps: The AI will help give you a clear roadmap for success. Its important to have big goals, but to also compliment these with practical steps (a weekly or daily to-do list).

Final tips

• Repeat this process regularly, at least every 6 months or more often if you’re going through a big change!

• AI is not perfect, but it's a valuable tool if you also use your discretion and commit to follow through on your goals

Stay tuned for a new guide explaining how you can use AI to actually do most of your job