Summary:
While robots aren’t ready to take over the world just yet, artificial intelligence is fast transforming the career development landscape. As AI capabilities rapidly advance, career counselors and coaches need to understand how these technologies may disrupt, enhance, or change the nature of career development. In this webinar, we will examine pragmatic AI applications to provide guidance for assessment, exploration, decision making, skills development, and job search strategies – tasks forming the core of career counseling activities.
Although robot assistants may be part of our future, it is essential for today’s counselors to learn how current AI career assistants analyze user data, provide personalized career recommendations, develop custom resumes, match candidates to best-fit jobs, and even actively coach clients through the job search process via chatbots. This webinar recording will compare the capabilities of leading AI-powered career tools and platforms and provide insights into how AI applications will continue to evolve in the next few years. Additionally, we explore key ethical considerations around privacy, transparency, and accountability as well as the outlook for increasing integration of AI in career services. The goal is to equip career advisors and coaches with a deeper understanding of existing and emerging intelligent technologies shaping the field so they can evaluate integration opportunities and practice implications.
Overall, this webinar recording will help practitioners to understand why AI developments are tied to the need for additional counselor and coach skill sets. We focus on real-world tools and ethical issues that attendees can expect to take away from the session to apply in their career development work and make more informed business decisions.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this webinars, attendees will be able to:
- analyze capabilities of current AI-powered career development tools to assess, explore options, facilitate decisions, develop skills, and enable job searching.
- compare strengths and limitations of leading career-focused AI platforms and chatbots to guide clients.
- evaluate ethical issues surrounding AI applications in career counseling including privacy, transparency, accountability, and counselor competency requirements.
- anticipate future trends and continued evolution of AI career advising tools over the next 5-10 years to strategically prepare professional integration.
Your Presenter:
Carl Sheperis PhD, NCC, CCMHC, MAC, ACS serves as Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies at Kutztown University. Dr. Sheperis has extensive experience in pediatric and family mental health and has served as an expert to various media outlets including The Huffington Post, The Conversation, the Denver Post, Seattle Times, Parenting, Prevention, Disney Family, Bustle, The Hill, numerous radio talk shows, and others. His interviews have reached over 50,000,000 readers.
Prior to arriving a Kutztown University, Dr. Sheperis served as Dean of the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University – San Antonio for four years. Prior to A&M San Antonio, he served as Interim President and CEO for the National Board for Certified Counselors & Affiliates. Dr. Sheperis is also a former Chair of the Board of Directors for NBCC and is a Director-Emeritus. Dr. Sheperis has over 25 years of experience in pediatric and family mental health and he has served as an envoy for professional counseling to UNESCO, the International Association for Counseling, the US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Turkey, the Kingdom of Bhutan, and numerous other international organizations/governments.
Dr. Sheperis has held several professional leadership positions in counseling. He served as President of the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling (AARC) and as Associate Editor for the Journal of Counseling and Development. He has worked with the American Counseling Association (ACA) as the chair of the Research & Knowledge Committee and has served as the Editor of the Journal of Counseling Research and Practice.
In addition to counseling, Dr. Sheperis has served on advisory boards to the Health Resources Services Administration and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). As part of his work with NASEM, Dr. Sheperis has led conversations on the application of artificial intelligence across health professions and has served as a keynote speaker on AI for numerous medical organizations. He published an article on AI applications in the National Academy of medicine.
Dr. Sheperis received his PhD in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Florida.
