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What AI skills should I learn?
Updated 15 Sep 2026 · Tied to published role research + free Academy catalog · About
Direct answer: Learn skills that close your gaps — exposed tasks, target roles, and tools that change how your work gets done — not a random tip list. Job Resiliens connects task-level exposure research to free Academy topics and (after signup) personalized gap plans.
What “AI skills” usually means here
- Judgment over the tool — reviewing AI output, owning decisions, catching silent failures.
- Task redesign — moving time from automatable execution to relationships, accountability, and complex cases.
- Role-adjacent capability — skills that unlock documented pivots on career-change guides.
Examples from published role maps
These Academy topic titles come from JR’s occupation→learning map (same catalog as the in-app Academy). They are starting points — not invented rankings.
- Software developers — prompt techniques, tool/function calling, RAG architecture, Git fundamentals (see role skills section).
- Product managers — AI product sense, evaluation habits, stakeholder judgment alongside research speed-ups.
- Data analysts — analysis judgment + descriptive statistics literacy while automatable reporting compresses.
- Teachers — instructional design with AI assists, not “replace the classroom” claims.
- Bookkeepers — advisory and anomaly judgment as processing automates.
Browse any of the 88 role pages for task breakdowns, human-advantage tasks, and linked Academy topics.
Free Academy catalog (by level)
Counts come from JR’s published Academy seed catalog (80 modules total) — the same list shown on /ai/academy/.
- basic — 20 modules in the free Academy catalog
- intermediate — 30 modules in the free Academy catalog
- advanced — 23 modules in the free Academy catalog
- expert — 7 modules in the free Academy catalog
A useful sequence
- Orient by role research — AI risk by role and the AI Job Risk Index.
- Score your actual work — Check My AI Career Risk (free, ~2 minutes, no card).
- Learn with prerequisites, not hard locks — AI Academy (80 published modules) and AI Growth.
- Prove and apply — freelance projects, matched jobs, or resilience paths.
We do not invent tool rankings. When a role page documents useful AI use cases, follow that evidence; otherwise start from exposure + Academy.
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