Artificial intelligence is raising an urgent question for students, families, and experienced professionals: How do we prepare for opportunity as the workplace changes?
I joined Dr. Courtney Skipper and Dr. Smiley Elmore on KBOB 89.9 FM’s Money Matters to discuss AI, jobs, and career readiness. These issues reach beyond the workplace. They affect how families plan, how students prepare, and how communities help people move forward.
The phrase displayed during the interview, “The alarm is going off,” offers a useful starting point. Awareness matters, but preparation requires action.
Here are practical takeaways to consider:
- Prepare before change becomes a crisis. Look at how technology is affecting your field. Identify one skill you can begin strengthening now.
- Make your abilities visible. A degree or résumé tells part of your story. Projects, work samples, and examples of problems you have solved help demonstrate what you can contribute.
- Pair experience with continued learning. Experienced workers bring judgment, relationships, and institutional knowledge. Learning new tools can help them apply those strengths in new ways.
- Give young people opportunities to practice. Internships, mentoring, community projects, and meaningful work experiences help connect classroom learning with workplace expectations.
- Strengthen human skills alongside technical skills. Communication, teamwork, ethical judgment, and leadership deserve attention as people learn to work with AI.
- Make career preparation a community responsibility. Schools, employers, churches, and community organizations can create connections that help people find guidance and opportunity.
- Turn concern into a next step. Take a course, update your portfolio, contact a mentor, or explore a tool relevant to your work. Start with an action you can sustain.
For me, the central question is how we help people prepare with confidence and purpose. Students need pathways into meaningful work. Experienced professionals need opportunities to keep contributing. Communities need to participate in both.
Watch the full interview:
Where Are the Jobs? AI and Career Readiness | Dr. Daryl Green on KBOB Money Matters
For more of my writing on leadership, AI, and workforce readiness, visit NuLeadership and my Substack.
People rebuild the future, not machines.
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