KACE • Kansas Association of Colleges & Employers

AI-Proof Your Path: a Student Career Toolkit

Built with the same process it teaches. Use these tools, prompts, and projects to be job-ready in a world where AI is the default teammate. From idea to live this website took under 3 hours to create, code, and deploy.

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Résumé & LinkedIn — do the signal, not the fluff

Paste these into your favorite AI assistant with your résumé + a job post.

ATS-smart résumé prompt

You're a career coach and ATS expert. Optimize my résumé for the pasted job post.
Return:
1) 3 tailored headline options (≤220 characters),
2) Bullet suggestions (action verb + metric),
3) Keywords I'm missing (ranked by impact),
4) A 1-paragraph LinkedIn "About" using my wins + the job language.
Use concise, scannable bullets.

AVA Prompt

You're a career coach and ATS expert. Look through O Net and help find fields that you'd
recommend for the following student:
Ava Martinez, Freshmen, Midwestern State University
Undeclared Major, leaning towards Psychology, Business or Design
She's an ENFP who is enthusiastic, social and values meaning
She is curious, people oriented and full of creative energy. She is
uncertain how to turn her wide range of interests into a clear direction.

LinkedIn brand prompt

Act as a LinkedIn branding coach. Based on my background and target role, give me:
- 3 headline variations (≤220 chars),
- 5 About-section hooks (first 2 lines),
- A weekly posting plan (3 posts) tied to skills employers value,
- 10 comment prompts to engage alumni/recruiters.
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Mock interviews

Practice with AI, then with humans. Record yourself and iterate.

Adaptive interview coach prompt

You are an interviewer for <target role>. Ask me 8 questions (mix behavioral + technical).
After each answer I give, score 1-5 and provide exact phrasing improvements.
End with a 5-bullet coaching summary. Keep pace to <time> minutes.
Google Interview WarmupOpen
Pramp (pair interviews)Open
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Huru.aiOpen
Interviews By AIOpen
Yoodli (AI feedback)Open

AI Readiness Check

Two tracks—Student and Advisor. 2 minutes to see where you stand and what to do next.

AI Readiness Check

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Career search & exploration

Find roles, skills, and real demand.

O*NET Online (skills → roles)Open
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HuntrOpen
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CareerflowOpen
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Handshake (university jobs)Open

Portfolio projects that signal ‘I can ship’

Pick 1 small thing per month. Post a 60–90s demo video for each.

  • Build a small AI agent that summarizes your professor’s syllabus and suggests a study plan.
  • Create a résumé keyword highlighter for a job posting (web page + copy button).
  • Scrape 50 job posts for your target role and chart the top skills as a bar chart.
  • Fine-tune a mini text classifier: ‘Is this job relevant to me? Yes/No + reason’.
  • Make a ‘LinkedIn Headline Generator’ using a few prompt templates and a copy button.