Urban League of Louisiana · Workforce AI workshop

AI for career skills.

A four-hour, hands-on workshop for participants in Urban League of Louisiana workforce programs. Use AI to rewrite a resume bullet, draft a cover letter for a real posting, prep for interviews, and turn a vague goal into a plan you can actually work.

No prerequisites. Bring a laptop or phone, an email you can check, and a real job posting if you have one in mind.

Workshop 1 · Career skills

Four hands-on activities. One four-hour session.

Sharpen a resume bullet. Draft a cover letter that addresses what the posting actually asked for. Practice interview questions in STAR format. Turn a vague goal into a week-by-week plan.

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Workshop 2 · Tech & IT

Five hands-on activities for IT and help desk careers.

Triage a help desk ticket, walk a network problem from cable to cloud, diagnose a slow PC, build a CompTIA study plan, and build your own Hermes Agent, a private AI assistant on a secure cloud server. Built for participants moving into technical roles.

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What this workshop is

Free tools first. Every AI tool we recommend has a free tier. Paid options are noted only where they earn the cost.
Beyond the big four. Most workshops only show Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot. We also use Grok, Kimi, Z.ai, HuggingChat, Perplexity, and Poe.
Actually interactive. Each activity walks a real task in steps with a self-check rubric. Not a lecture with a lab at the end.
No tracking. This site collects no analytics, sets no cookies, and stores nothing about you. Your work saves to your browser only.

Where to start

New to AI? Start with What AI is, then move to the activities.

Comfortable with prompts already? Jump straight to Activities. Pick whichever skill is closest to where you're hiring or applying right now.

During a session? Open /live in a second tab. The shared timer and prompt playground live there.

Workshop 1 covers

The plain-English tour of what AI is and isn't.
RTCF: the prompt structure that works across every tool.
Activity 1: rewrite a resume bullet, then self-check against a rubric.
Activity 2: draft a cover letter from a job posting you paste in.
Activity 3: practice answering interview questions on demand.
Activity 4: break a vague goal into a plan you can work from this week.
A 30-day plan for one new habit per week.

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Plan the day

The Workshop 1 activities live at /activities and the use cases at /use-cases. The live page has a shared timer and prompt playground for the room.

Take-home reading and links: /resources.