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.

Learn AI (fast & practical)

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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.

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
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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AI & Careers — fresh updates

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Career search & exploration

Find roles, skills, and real demand.

O*NET Online (skills → roles)Open
Occupational Outlook HandbookOpen
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.