The Career Development Professional’s AI Toolkit - eBook Edition
The Career Development Professional’s AI Toolkit - eBook Edition
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A comprehensive guide that empowers career development professionals to cut through the hype surrounding AI by offering practical tools, relevant examples and successful strategies for ensuring AI delivers benefits to their clients.
Written by expert authors, Michael Larbalestier and Marianne Wilson, the book provides:
- Practical Understanding of AI Technology: De-mystifies the inner workings of AI tools to help readers make informed choices about AI's role in their practice.
- Relevant Examples: Boasts worked examples of activities and tasks that encompass a wide range of career support activities - from improving personal productivity and creating educational materials, to designing engaging client activities and leveraging AI for Labour Market Information.
- Flexible Toolkit Format: Icons and consistent page layouts make this book an easy-to-navigate hands-on guide that readers can consult according to their interests and preferences.
The book builds on the authors’ experience of supporting practitioners to navigate AI confidently as they support diverse client groups, including young people, graduates, unemployed adults and employed professionals. With a focus on continuous improvement and reflective practice, The Career Practitioner's AI Toolkit helps to bring these insights and skills to a wider audience, in a flexible, accessible format.
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Product info
Published: 22 June 2026
Edition: 1st
Length: 190 pages
Dimensions: 24 x 17 cm
Key Reviews
"Michael Larbelestier’s and Marianne Wilson’s AI Toolkit for Careers Practitioners ... meets a definite need in the profession.
From the outset, the authors acknowledge that readers will approach this book with different levels of familiarity with AI, as well as different practical needs. Neither an ‘AI for beginners’ manual, nor a dense academic treatise, this book takes a different approach, equipping the reader with the knowledge and skills to use AI skilfully and effectively. Starting with a general introduction (that includes some much-needed myth busting), the authors move on to the wider social and ethical implications of this technology, and its implications for career development work. Detailed practical examples of how AI might be used in practice ground the book in the ‘coalface’ of practice, while the final section of the book offers welcome definitions of the myriad technical terms that inevitably form part of this subject.
This book is, as its title says, a ‘toolkit’. By adopting the approach of providing the reader with a ‘compass’ (to use the authors’ own metaphor), rather than a ‘map’, this volume will, I think, remain relevant and vital for many years, despite the dynamic and fast-changing nature of its subject. I cannot recommend it highly enough."
From the foreword to the book
Dr Oliver Jenkin PGCE RCDP, NICEC Fellow
CDI Senior Professional Development and Standards Manager, and Editor of the CDI’s magazine, Career Matters
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Table of Contents
Section 1: Foundations
Chapter 1: Understanding Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 2: AI in the World and Work
Chapter 3: AI and Careers Practice in Context
Chapter 4: AI Tools and Skills Glossary
Section 2: AI Toolkit Scenarios
Scenario 1: How to plan a group session for clients or students
Scenario 2: How to prepare for a job or careers fair
Scenario 3: How to provide feedback on a CV
Scenario 4: How to reflect on your own career development plans
Scenario 5: How to create social media content
Scenario 6: How to analyse and interpret labour market trends
Scenario 7: How to use built-in AI features in productivity tools
Scenario 8: How to create a rules-based chatbot
Scenario 9: How to create a card sort game for selecting a course
Scenario 10: How to use application management platforms
Conclusion
Meet the Authors
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Michael Larbalestier
Learn moreMichael is a digital learning and innovation specialist with extensive experience in career development, having trained and worked as a Careers Adviser in the 1990’s and went on to lead innovation and digital learning within career and employability companies.
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Marianne Wilson
Learn moreMarianne is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator focused on ensuring AI benefits everyone in society. She has published articles on the opportunities and risks of AI for careers practice, and on how to include practitioners in AI development. She has made contributions on the topic of AI at events for the CDI, NICEC, CICA, CDAA and the Scottish AI Alliance.
