Putting AI to work — your way
See how others are using AI, learn how to build it into your day-to-day, and find resources to guide your career path.
How other LinkedIn members are using AI to move forward
Growth in your current career path
Handing off routine code to AI to build a startup
When AI could do his boilerplate coding, Taj English didn’t panic; he delegated. The time he gained went into a new product grounded in his lived experience, proof that your perspective is the moat.
Started using AI as a thought partner
Neil Pretty learned that overrelying on AI made him sound inauthentic — and clients could feel it. Now, he uses AI intentionally: for instant perspectives, sparking new angles, and speeding up his prep, without doing the thinking for him.
Neil Pretty
CEO and Co-Founder, Aristotle Performance
Explore a new career path
From AI skeptic to project manager, fast
Jonetta Gresham feared AI, until she tried it. By using AI as a study partner that spoke her language, she learned complex IT concepts and pivoted into project management. “Once I started using it, I haven’t stopped,” she says.
Jonetta Gresham
Implementation Manager, Ellit Groups
Stopped climbing the ladder, and built his own route
Trained as an engineer, Ethan Evans realized he was more energized by building teams, so he pivoted into product management. After years as a PM, his pull toward teaching led him to mentoring — and in 2020, into full-time career coaching, guided by a simple idea: don’t follow someone else’s path.
Ethan Evans
Founder and Career Expert, Self Employed
Build your own entrepreneurial path
Building a permissionless path
Diego Rubio watched his dad lose his business and leave home to work in the oil fields. He later dropped out of college, and chose what he calls the “permissionless path.” He launched a recruiting company. Now, he helps rural entrepreneurs use AI to build businesses from home, so families don’t have to choose between opportunity and staying together.
Diego Rubio
Senior Program Manager, Entrepreneurship, Center for Rural Innovation
Fired as a doorman, he built a 7-figure laundry business
John Henry stopped climbing the “traditional” ladder and built his own, turning his dad’s dry-cleaning hustle into a modern wash and fold by age 21. The lesson: what you were taught to hide might be your edge.
John Henry
Head of Insurance at OutRival
Lead your team to find their path
Instead of mandates, Walmart gave teams permission to experiment
Rather than pushing AI tools down from HQ, Walmart is allowing in-store teams to experiment, run pilots, and share best practices from people who know the customer best. The result? Scaling innovation from the ground up.
A message from Aneesh Raman
Aneesh offers a helpful way to think about your work in the age of AI—by grouping tasks into what AI can handle on its own, what you can do with AI’s support, and what still depends on human judgment and creativity.
Use the career change checklist below to reflect on these categories and explore how they can inform your next career move.
Your career change checklist
10 easy things to do to get started.
Start experimenting with AI
Start using AI for everyday tasks like drafting or improving one email, document, or slide.
Identify job tasks you can automate
List your weekly tasks and circle one repetitive task to hand to AI this week.
Invest in human skills
Ask a colleague for feedback on one human skill you want to strengthen (communication, collaboration, etc.). LinkedIn Premium members can learn more with Aneesh Raman’s Human Skills course.
Build learning into your routine
Block 30 minutes on your calendar to learn or test something new related to your role. Check out WorkLab for the latest research and insights on AI at work.
Stay open to reinvention
Look up one adjacent role or team and see how its skills differ from your role.
Invest in your network
Go to your LinkedIn profile and message one person you respect. Share that you're thinking about your career in the context of AI and ask for their perspective.
Track skills you’re gaining
Keep a list of what worked well in your AI experiments. Those wins are new skills forming.
Keep your CV and profiles up to date
Review the Skills section of your LinkedIn profile and update it with what you’ve learned.
Shape how AI is used at work
Share one example with a teammate or manager of how AI helped you work better.
Resources to help navigate your path and feel inspired
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