Optimising AI for Your Career Change
A full day workshop.
AI has changed the job search landscape. It has also created a new way to lose to the competition. This workshop makes sure your members are using as a support tool rather than a crutch.
Who This is For
This workshop is designed for business school alumni, postgraduate students, and professional members who are already using AI tools in their job search, or know they should be, and want to understand where it genuinely helps and where it quietly works against them.
It works equally well for someone skeptical of AI who has avoided it entirely and someone who has leaned on it heavily without realising the cost.
The Case for this Workshop
Every job seeker now has access to the same AI tools. That access is not the advantage it was eighteen months ago. It is the baseline.
What separates candidates now is not whether they use AI but how. Generic, AI-generated resumes and cover letters are easy to spot and increasingly easy to filter out. The candidates getting through are the ones using AI to do the heavy lifting on research and efficiency while keeping their own voice and specific evidence at the centre of everything that actually gets read by a human.
Built from 22 years inside recruitment and a direct, current view of how hiring managers and applicant tracking systems are responding to AI-generated content, this workshop cuts through the noise around what AI can and cannot do for a serious job search.
Participants leave knowing exactly where to use AI, where to avoid it and how to keep the human argument that gets someone hired at the centre of an AI-assisted search.
What Participants Cover
Where AI genuinely helps. Research, market analysis, structuring drafts and efficiency gains that save real time without compromising quality.
Where AI quietly fails candidates. Generic language, lost specificity, and the patterns that make AI-generated content easy to identify and easy to dismiss.
Working with AI tools properly. Practical techniques for using AI as a drafting and research partner rather than a replacement for your own thinking.
Keeping the human argument central. How to make sure the most important parts of your application, the specific evidence and your own voice, are never outsourced.
What Participants Leave With
A clear framework for what to use AI for and what to keep entirely in their own hands.
Practical prompting techniques specific to job search tasks.
The ability to spot and fix the most common signs of AI-generated content in their own materials.
Confidence that their search is using every available tool without losing what makes them a real, specific candidate.
About the Facilitator
Paul Swanwick has spent more than 22 years at the intersection of recruitment & career development.
He has made more than a thousand successful hires across industries and has coached CEOs, Executives and Senior Leaders through career transitions at the highest level.
He has sat in the room where hiring decisions are made. He knows exactly what gets a candidate over the line and what ends an otherwise strong candidacy. That knowledge is what he brings to every workshop.
Paul delivers every session in person. Not a slide deck read aloud. A working day that produces real output for every participant in the room.
Logistics
Format: Half day, approximately 3-3.5 hours.
Delivery: In person at your institution or preferred venue.
Group size: Suitable for cohorts of ten to fifty participants.
Availability: Sydney based. Available nationally by arrangement.
Tailoring: Each delivery is calibrated to the cohort – early career, mid-career or alumni in transition while the core system stays the same.
Investment
$395 + GST per attendee
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