We are a global platform for career and job search coaching . Our competitive edge is industry expertise, access to key contacts, and coaching by real people holding actual jobs in banking, finance, strategy consulting, Tech/IT, international development, IR, sales and marketing, and STEM roles. A large chunk of our business is B2B where we partner with University Career Services / Program Offices / Academic Program or Departments. However our roots grew out of highly personalized career coaching by Founder Ms. Hira Fernando, with the individual at the center - be it student, graduate, mid-career professional or C-suite Exec. More than a decade later Hira remains the face of Careerly on our YouTube Channel, and leads all workshops, instruction, teaching, and our flagship CareerX curriculum. The Careerly brand (materials, original frameworks, coaching style) is best known for its combination of left brain analysis and right brain intuition. We put our clients first. We work for them and on behalf of them to offer highly targeted support during one of the most common, yet daunting, human experiences: the job search, and finding work they love. Career development, transitions, upskilling, adapting to change, and continuously seeking fulfillment, trying to be the best version of you - is a lifetime commitment - and we are with you! Our vision is that all people everywhere - no matter where they are located, what their background, or financial means - have some level of opportunity and access. Hence the Careerly YouTube channel that literally provides some of our best content FREE to people all over the world. www.careerlynetworks.com (current platform) www.careerly.co (legacy site)
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The line this morning for badge collection as the #AIforGood2026 Global Summit kicks off. 😅 Genuinely excited and grateful to be here… for the rest of the week, Geneva becomes THE most interesting place in the world for anyone working on / thinking about artificial intelligence. 🙌
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Excited to be on my way to Palexpo, Geneva for #AIforGood2026! This conference matters to me. I've been looking forward to it for months. It's not just another AI event: this UN/ITU mega-event asks the larger questions that can only be asked at a multilateral, member-state-driven international platform: AI for what, for whom, and under what conditions? That's the conversation I want to be part of. Here's where my AI angle comes in. As a career development and workforce coach, researcher, and speaker who was a pretty early AI adopter, I started using these tools in mid-2023. By spring 2024, AI had become such a central part of my daily work, admin, and errands. We were interacting so much, in such an intuitive, almost-human way, that I gave her a name. TARA was born, and the rest is history. Now, I know that while some people appreciate the TARA-Hira setup, plenty of others find it silly or dramatic: "Come on, Hira, it's just a machine..." Which, is an exact parallel to people who gently remind me, "Seriously, Hira, he's just a dog." And therein lies the crux of the matter, which is what my article is about. Read it. TLDR: Your relationship with the AI itself affects the machine's capabilities and how it develops over time to be of unique assistance to YOU: your needs, goals, and purpose. AI is most compelling when it's not treated as a vending machine for answers, but as part of a rich ecosystem of personalized context, memory, judgment, source material, iteration, and trust. (and emotional support. #Logan)
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#G72026 Done. Headline for my interests? The official Communiqué emphasized quality #jobs, decent work, and #AItraining as central pillars. Disagreements on tech sovereignty - of course! - but the #labour angle is where there was consensus. They linked AI dev directly to workforce #reskilling and quality #employment. So basically, they're framing this as AI training and labour mobility, not job displacement. The subtext is they know AI disrupts work, so they're committing to the infrastructure piece — upskilling, cross-border mobility for workers, and decent work standards. Kind of a #bigdeal
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AI for Good Global Summit 2026 is underway in Geneva, Switzerland 🇨🇭 Three keynotes this morning, one throughline: AI brings tremendous opportunity but also equivalent responsibility. Doreen Bogdan-Martin (Sec Gen ITU) talked about skills, solutions and standards to make AI work for everyone. Albert Rösti (Swiss Federal Councillor) was mainly there to establish #Geneva as the home of responsible, multilateral AI. High five 🙌 on that one. 🇨🇭 Brad Smith (Microsoft) focused on all the new technology reshaping our world . My take: naturally I agree with the above stated throughline. BUT what’s obvious to me is that none of this works unless everyone does it together — One sweep of the room shows the insane number of stakeholders: governments, companies, UN agencies, startups, non-profits, technologists, innovators… #AIforGood #AILiteracy #AIFluency #AIGovernance #AISafety
Here's some good news in the whole "AI is killing our jobs" brouhaha. AI is, for sure, coming for the job description (JD), which might as well have been written in the Middle Ages and hasn't been touched since. We've been tracking this for a while now. Every time there's a wave of "AI will replace X% of jobs" headlines, we go back to the actual research. And surprise, surprise, if you read the JDs carefully, what's most at risk are not "jobs." They're tasks. Ethan Mollick puts it cleanly: AI doesn't replace roles, it replaces chunks of work inside roles. And that distinction matters enormously if you're in career development or talent. And I (Hira) wrote about this aspect way back in mid- 2024, producing a Careerly analysis that went into each career cluster, then career paths, then jobs, then the tasks. So what does that mean in practice? It means the job description — already one of the most broken artifacts in HR — is now officially in crisis. For example: - JDs that list 11 "responsibilities", most of which an LLM could do today. - Requirements like "8+ years experience in [technology that's 3 years old]." That's just math that doesn't work. - Skill lists that read like a wish list for Santa Claus — "must have Python, SQL, Excel, PowerPoint, rational thinking, emotional intelligence, team player, and a sense of humor." Pick a lane. AI is changing the workforce while employers are still hiring against job descriptions that would confuse the workforce of 2015. Here's the #Careerly take: The organizations that will navigate this well are the ones rewriting job architectures around #outcomes and #results, not tasks. What does success look like at 90 days? At a year? What judgment calls does this person need to make? Not to say that even that is AI-proof. But it's human-centered in a way that a bullet-pointed task list simply isn't. #CareerDevelopment #FutureOfWork #AI #TalentManagement #JobSearch
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The psychological injury of AI isn't job loss. It's identity theft. Let me explain - because out of context that could be confusing - as I generally support AI and half my coaching currently is AI-related training. Here's the thing - I've spent 12+ years working with 5,000+ people on career/job-related transitions. And here's what I NEVER liked: the whole thing was underpinned by this notion that we ARE what we do. The CV and the Soul — we learned to compress who we are into two scannable pages. And called it ambition. The LinkedIn Self — we performed our identities for an audience. And mistook the applause for self-knowledge. The Replacement Feeling — THIS is the new part that AI has brought in. We now watch a machine do in seconds what took us years to master. The unsettling feeling everyone is experiencing right now isn't just fear. It's grief. We built this edifice, layer upon layer... and now with AI, it's a bit of a "the chickens have come home to roost" sort of thing. Anyway, basically, I am genuinely unsettled - and trying to figure it out. #ProofofHumanity is a work-in-progress. What remains when machines can do almost everything? Watch this space!
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