Your Career and AI: Adding Value and Expanding Your Options
AI can help you move faster in a career transition. It can brainstorm possibilities, analyze job postings, improve résumé wording, generate interview questions, and help you get unstuck.
But faster is not always better.
In today’s job market, employers are seeing more AI-polished applications than ever. The materials that stand out are not the ones that sound the smoothest. They are the ones that show clear focus, real evidence, strong judgment, and credible patterns of success.
This session is about using AI as a thinking partner, not a replacement for your own strategy. You’ll explore where AI can genuinely help your career transition — and what must stay in your own hands.
You’ll leave with the ability to:
Use AI more strategically in a career transition or job search
Recognize where AI can help with direction, résumé customization, interview preparation, and career research
Identify what human material you need to provide before AI can be useful
Strengthen career materials without losing your voice, evidence, or credibility
Spot the difference between AI-polished language and credible proof of success
Apply the session content immediately to your work, leadership, career, or job-search decisions
Format: This is a 90-minute interactive workshop with brief teaching, guided reflection, practical exercises, and optional sharing.
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This event is part of Staying Strong Through Change and Uncertainty, a six-week community learning series hosted by the Centre for Social Innovation and delivered by Career Aviators. It is designed to help business owners and professionals stay grounded, think clearly and keep contributing through the growing change and uncertainty we are all experiencing in our work, businesses, families and communities.
The series responds to the pressures many people are facing right now, including changes in work and technology, financial strain, climate concerns, conflict, career transitions and burnout. Each session offers practical tools for understanding these pressures and navigating change with greater clarity, resilience and purpose.
About Your Facilitator
Wayne Greenway has spent his career developing practical ways to strengthen psychological resilience in people facing profound uncertainty and change.
His early work focused on seriously ill children and youth and their families. He developed family-oriented, multi-system programs for paediatric teaching centres and held a faculty position with Queen’s University’s Faculty of Medicine for 16 years.
Wayne later applied this work with military families, people living with neurodegenerative disease, and professionals navigating career uncertainty. He is the creator of The Phoenix Series, a practical, research-informed program that helps people manage self-doubt, make sound decisions, and move forward through challenging periods of change.