Session agenda

Four hours, plainly.

What happens from the moment the room opens to when you walk out with a 30-day plan.

How to follow along

0:00
Welcome, ground rules, and what this is
Who is in the room. Why we're spending four hours on this. The promise: you leave with prompts you can use Monday.
0:15
What AI actually is
Before we open a chatbot. A tour of the kinds of AI you already use and where LLMs fit. Read ahead.
0:40
AI fundamentals in plain English
What an LLM is, what it's not. Why it sometimes invents things. Why your judgment matters more, not less.
0:55
Break
10 minutes.
1:05
The RTCF prompt structure
Role, Task, Context, Format. We use this on every activity today.
1:20
Activity 1: resume bullet rewrite
Take a boring bullet, work it into a strong one. Self-check against a rubric.
1:55
Activity 2: cover letter from a job posting
Paste the posting, extract what they want, draft a letter, compare to your first instinct.
2:25
Break
10 minutes.
2:35
Activity 3: interview prep
Pull a question from the pool. Answer it. Use AI to improve the answer. Repeat.
3:10
Activity 4: breaking a goal into a plan
Take a vague goal ("find a new job in six months"). Turn it into a week-by-week plan.
3:35
Tool landscape
Beyond Claude and ChatGPT. Grok, Kimi, Z.ai, HuggingChat, Perplexity. Free options for rotating through when you hit limits.
3:50
Your 30-day plan
One new habit per week for four weeks. You write it down.
3:58
Wrap
Resources page, prompt library, questions.

A laptop if you have one. A phone works.
An email address you can check during the session for verification codes.
A valid ID if you need to create a new AI account that asks for age verification.
A real job posting you're interested in, if you want to use it for the cover-letter activity. Optional.