From the course: Smarter Learning with AI: 10 Powerful Prompts to Build Skills, Show Your Value, and Grow Your Career

Use AI deep research to find in-demand career skills

- I used to be an advertising creative. I spent 20 years of my life coming up with ideas and writing copy. Training would've really helped me at many stages of my career, but not all training would've been beneficial. There was one time that presentation training would've really helped. There was another when learning management skills would've been pretty handy, but I can't think of a single time when a qualification in industrial plumbing would've furthered my career, although it might have helped when an instant in the men's room forced us to evacuate the third floor. So if you want to get the most value from your learning, you need to know which skills will help you move up the next rung in your career ladder. And that's what this prompt is all about. This is a prompt that's designed for deep research. There are a few ways that you can get this feature if you haven't used it already. So here's some information that's correct at time of filming, although things may have changed by the time you watch this course. We'll be using Perplexity's Deep research in this lesson. At present, you can use it a few times a day for free. You could also use DeepSeek, which is currently free. Make sure that you select DeepThink and Search. You could use ChatGPT o3 with Search activated, or you could use Claude in Extended Thinking mode. Now, there may be some more options by the time you see this. So just do a quick search to see what's available, because you've got to remember that I'm time traveling to you from the past. You might have a flying car by now and be watching this as some kind of retro comedy, for all I know. To use the skill researching prompt, just copy it from the spreadsheet and paste it into your AI tool. Then scroll to the bottom and add either your current job title, if you want to be a master of your current role, or add the role that you want to progress to, if you're looking for a promotion. Then draw a quick portrait of me while it does its thinking, I'll just pause for you while you do that. (sentimental music) Okay, and feel free to send your portrait to me in a LinkedIn message, I'd appreciate that. Now, let me tell you what this prompt gets your AI tool to do. It will search online job postings for your chosen role to find the most requested skills and experience. It puts these into a table, ranking the importance of each skill. It gives you suggestions of additional skills that might give you an advantage in your career, and then it suggests some LinkedIn Learning courses that will help you. It's a bit like having your own pet learning and development advisor, one that's house trained and doesn't shed hair. So join me at the next lesson, and we are going to take this for a walk around the block.

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