AI Fluency = Career Readiness — A SBF Workshop

TL;DR

A 75-minute workshop for Students for a Better Future SASLI laureates. Hits both of SBF's stated goals + the CEO's feedback to add a group activity:

• Skills relevant to your STUDENT LIFE NOW — Phase 00 (slide 9) with 4 concrete uses for studies / past papers / group projects / lecture notes
• TRENDS in the future world of work — 5 forces slide (slide 6) frames AI fluency as the through-line on all 5

Then the career-readiness arc: 3 tools, 4 phases, and 3 actions for tonight — concrete, no motivational filler.

• 3 tools: Claude (chat) · Agents (career-ops + others) · AWS (where it scales later)
• 4 phases: Student Now · Get In · Look Ready · Stand Out — this week through year 2
• 3 actions tonight: Open claude.ai · Fork santifer/career-ops · Comment SBF on IG

The agent section pivots the talk from "use AI in chat" to "hire AI as employees" — using santifer/career-ops (46K stars, MIT) as the headliner concrete tool.

What attendees walk away with

• One mental model — the 3 phases of their next 18 months (Get In · Look Ready · Stand Out), each with concrete AI moves
• A live prompt they ran on their own phone during slide 8 — a cover letter tailored for a real SA job, in 90 seconds
• A real OSS agent to fork tonight — career-ops, with a 30-minute setup guide on atb-hub
• The intern-vs-employee mental model for chatbot vs agent (slide 10)
• The "would my professor or boss see this prompt?" test for ethical use
• A take-home bundle via the SBF keyword DM: slides + cover-letter prompt + career-ops guide + Anthropic AI Fluency course link

Format (19 slides · 75 min)

Block	Time	Slides	Detail
Opener	0:00–0:07	1–3	Akhil welcome · Asif (Zaio CTO) recorded 3-min video answering 3 industry questions
Setup	0:07–0:21	4–8	Thesis (3 tools · 4 phases · 3 actions) · Passive vs Active AI · 5 trends shaping your world of work · 4D framework cameo · 4 phases reveal
PHASE 00 · STUDENT NOW	0:21–0:27	9	4 study moves you can run this week — study any concept 3 ways · past papers → infinite practice · group projects · lecture → study guide
PHASE 01 · GET IN	0:27–0:39	10	Apply 10× sharper. 📱 Phones-on: live cover letter prompt (90 sec + 3 min debrief)
PHASE 02 · LOOK READY	0:39–0:45	11	First 90 days — meeting notes · ramp fast · boss's tone · industry research
Beyond chat · agents	0:45–0:50	12–13	Chatbot vs Agent (intern vs employee) → career-ops repo card
PHASE 03 · STAND OUT	0:50–0:53	14	3 agents: career-ops · Claude Projects · research synthesis
The warnings	0:53–0:56	15	3 risks + the "embarrassed if prof/boss saw this prompt?" test
👥 GROUP ACTIVITY (NEW · per SBF CEO feedback)	0:56–1:11	16	Groups of 5 · pick ONE of 3 themes (Personal Life · Studies · Future Work) · 10 min discussion + 5 min share-back
Close + Q&A	1:11–1:15	17–19	3 actions tonight · CTA → SBF keyword · Q&A close

The 4 phases (the spine)

#	Phase	Horizon	Tool category	Core move
0	Student Now (NEW)	THIS WEEK	Chatbot	Study any concept 3 ways · past papers · group projects · lecture → study guide
1	Get In	NOW · this year	Chatbot	Tailor CVs · draft cover letters · mock interviews · LinkedIn outreach
2	Look Ready	+30 → +120 days	Chatbot + Projects	Meeting notes · fast ramp · tonal mimicry · quick research
3	Stand Out	Year 1+	Agents	Hire career-ops · Claude Projects · research synthesis agents

The 5 forces (slide 6, NEW)

The trends framing — directly serves SBF's stated goal of "building understanding of major trends and advancements influencing the future world of work."

Force	What it means for SASLI laureates
AI fluency = new literacy	In 2026, "knows how to direct AI" is what "knows Excel" was in 2010
Remote-first is permanent	Apply globally from Cape Town. $100K SWE jobs hire from anywhere
Skill-stacking > degrees	Employers care about the 3 things you can ship
Career = 5–7 jobs	Loyalty is to skills, not employers. Build portable assets.
Automation reshapes every field	Law · finance · design · healthcare · marketing — no industry stays static

The anchor line: "AI fluency is the through-line on all 5 — the one skill that compounds across the other 4."

The agent section (slides 10-12) — the headliner

The pivot from "AI you chat with" to "AI you hire."

Slide 10 — Chatbot vs Agent (intern vs employee):

• Chatbot = the intern in the chat box. Cannot leave the box. Cannot touch your files. Answer-and-copy-paste only. Everything we did in Phase 1 + 2.
• Agent = the junior employee you actually hired. Browses, reads files, fills forms, sends drafts, tracks responses. Runs while you sleep.

Slide 11 — career-ops repo card:

• github.com/santifer/career-ops — 46K stars, MIT, built on Claude Code
• 4-step pipeline: scan job boards → score vs CV (4.0+/5.0 = apply) → tailored PDF → track responses
• Free, forkable, runs on a laptop
• Setup guide: /guides/run-your-first-ai-agent — 30 min

Slide 12 — Phase 3 STAND OUT (3 agents you hire):

1. career-ops — your job-hunt agent · saves 5 hrs/week
2. Claude Projects — your ramp-up agent · upload your team's docs, become a teammate who has "read everything"
3. Research synthesis — your "5 PDFs → 1 pager" agent · the move that looks like a week of work

The group activity (slide 16 · 15 min)

Added per SBF CEO's feedback. Groups of 5 pick ONE theme, discuss for 10 min, then 5 min share-back (1 group per theme). The 3 themes + questions:

Theme	Question
🏠 Personal Life	Where is AI already making a difference in your daily life — and where could it make a much bigger one? Share the most useful AI moment from your past week.
📚 Studies (featured)	Pick ONE module you're struggling with right now. What's the first prompt you'd run tonight to make it easier? Share with the group; refine each other's prompts.
💼 Future Work	It's 2027 and you're in your first job. What can you do — using AI fluency — that the peer who skipped this workshop cannot? Be specific.

Facilitation flow (Akhil's role during the 15 min):

1. 0:00 Read out the instructions, point at the slide
2. 0:00–0:01 Audience forms groups of 5 (find 4 people sitting near them)
3. 0:01–0:11 Discussion · Akhil walks the room, listens, notes gold lines
4. 0:11–0:14 Share-back — one volunteer per theme, ~60 sec each
5. 0:14–0:15 Transition: "Great reflections. Now let's lock in what you do tonight..." → slide 17

The phones-on moment (slide 10)

The single highest-engagement moment of the workshop. Attendees pull out their phones, open claude.ai (free tier works), paste this prompt:

You are an expert career coach. Write me a 200-word cover letter for this job:

[paste the job description here]

Here's me: I'm a [year of study] student at [uni]. I'm strong at [2-3 skills]. The 3 things I most want this employer to know are: [1, 2, 3].

Match the company's tone. No clichés. End with one concrete question I should ask in the interview.

Format: 90 seconds to run · 2-3 volunteers share what came back · debrief on what made the good outputs good (that's the Anthropic Description D in action).

Tonight — 3 actions

What attendees do in the next 35 minutes after the workshop:

1. Open Claude (5 min) — claude.ai, free tier. Re-run the slide 8 cover-letter prompt with a real SA job.
2. Fork career-ops (25 min) — follow /guides/run-your-first-ai-agent. End state: an AI agent running on your laptop, scoring a real job posting against your CV.
3. Comment SBF (5 min) — on the latest IG post. DM goes out with slides + cover-letter prompt + career-ops guide + Anthropic course link.

The thesis (one line)

"Three tools. Three phases. Three things you do tonight. By next week, you're 18 months ahead of your peers."

Most SA students at every other university right now are using ChatGPT to write essays and hoping not to get caught. SBF SASLI laureates walked into this workshop, learned to direct chat, hire agents, and avoid the 3 traps. That's a real, verifiable head start.

Resources mentioned

• career-ops repo — github.com/santifer/career-ops (46K stars, MIT, Claude Code-based)
• career-ops setup guide — /guides/run-your-first-ai-agent (30 min)
• Claude (free tier) — claude.ai
• Anthropic AI Fluency for Students — anthropic.skilljar.com/ai-fluency-for-students (free, 5 lessons, ~3 hrs)
• 4D Framework whitepaper — Anthropic CDN (Dakan, Feller & Anthropic 2025, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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Comment SBF on the latest @africantechbro.ai Instagram post → I DM you the slides + cover-letter prompt + career-ops setup guide + Anthropic course link as one bundle.

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