AI Skills for Researchers Entering the Job Market
At a glance
- For
- Researchers heading for a job outside academia
- Before the course
- No AI experience needed
- Participants leave with
- A clear idea of what employers mean by AI skills, how to read a job ad for them, and how hiring tests them
- Format
- In person, online or both; one block or several weeks; agreed with you
Course content. If you are heading for a job outside academia, as most doctoral researchers do, more and more employers will expect you to have AI skills. However, what those skills are often remains unclear. This course is there to clarify this, teach you some of those skills, show you how to keep learning on your own and, ultimately, help you get the job you want. The focus is on how your very specific, deep skills as a researcher can translate into those AI skills employers actually look for. You leave with a one-page map for the kind of job you aim at: the AI skills it expects, the ones you already have, and what to learn next.
Goals. You learn to:
- explain what employers mean by AI skills, for example, in a consulting firm, a technology company, an international organisation, a pharma company, a public administration, or a publishing house;
- read a job ad for the AI skills it expects, including those it does not name;
- recognise and prepare for how employers test these skills in hiring (some watch you work with AI on a realistic task, others interview you without it);
- see how your skills as a researcher can carry over into working with AI, and say which skills you still lack;
- practise some of the AI skills employers look for:
- taking one unclear task apart, giving the right parts to AI, checking the result and answering for it;
- deciding what may go into which AI tool at work, and saying what you used AI for;
- recognising which recurring tasks call for a repeatable workflow (an assistant, a template or an automation that does the task the same way each time), and starting one without programming;
- find out for yourself what to learn next, and where to learn it;
- judge which AI skills are worth your time for the job you want, and which are not.
Format. Every course can take different shapes: in person, online or both, as one intensive block or spread over several weeks, shorter or longer. Length, format and all practical details are open: we agree them together, and I adapt the course to what your institution needs.
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