S8 Ep5: Unlock Career Confidence with AI | Expert Advice from Kitty Miller

Mapping Your Career Path with AI

Choosing a new direction in your career, or restarting after a significant break, often involves uncertainty and self-doubt. In this conversation, Kitty Miller reveals how AI can become a quietly powerful guide, helping women and mothers navigate big transitions with greater clarity and confidence. The episode unfolds with Heather Black, Kelly-Jace Halls, and Lyn Constantine exploring not just what AI can do, but how to use it to reveal your strengths and shape your career vision.

Finding Clarity in Career Planning

For many, career planning is about balancing ambition, practicalities, and timing. Kitty Miller talks openly about her journey from a senior role in corporate consulting to launching two businesses, driven by real needs at home and a desire for personal fulfillment. She describes how large language models like ChatGPT helped her structure the jumbled thoughts that surface during career transitions, offering gentle insight and new possibilities. These tools do not decide for you, but they help you organize ideas, test your reactions, and nudge you toward decisions that fit your life at the moment.

Tools for Self-Discovery and Application

The episode takes a practical turn as Kelly-Jace Halls shares how she encourages clients to create their own AI-powered career co-pilot. By feeding a CV, listing strengths, and adding personality, you can train an AI model to compare your profile to potential roles. This process, as Kitty Miller points out, works best when you personalize the AI to act as a “critical friend”, not just an encourager, but a straightforward partner who helps spot blind spots and potential growth areas. The richer the prompts and input, the more authentic and powerful the feedback becomes, saving time and lending a sense of agency.

Building Confidence and Embracing Your Superpowers

Throughout, the conversation circles around building confidence, especially for women returning to work after raising families or taking time out. Kitty Miller and Heather Black remind listeners that the so-called perfect fit is a myth; most applicants and even successful leaders start with incomplete skill sets. What matters is finding companies and mentors who recognize your potential and welcome your unique experience. AI tools, when paired with mentoring and a supportive community, help uncover your superpowers, those standout personal and professional qualities… and prepare you to speak about them with clarity and pride.

Navigating Risks and Realities

Yet, the team does not shy away from addressing the risks of using AI. Kitty Miller emphasizes the importance of sense-checking AI-generated content, ensuring your personality comes through so that your applications never feel generic or hollow. Tuning your AI to reflect your real voice and interrogating its suggestions adds value rather than noise. There is also a gentle warning not to let comparison percentages hold you back; if a job appeals and you meet some requirements, apply anyway. Transferable skills and the way you think often matter more than ticking every box.

Networking, Progression, and Personal Branding

Finally, the group highlights how AI can map out career paths, suggest development plans, and even help you leverage networking platforms like LinkedIn for introductions and hidden opportunities. Personal branding surfaces as a theme, with Kitty Miller offering exercises for self-reflection and growth. The episode leaves listeners with encouragement to shine in interviews, use AI not just for efficiency but for greater self-awareness, and to keep sharing and developing those qualities that make you uniquely valuable.

It is a conversation rooted in empathy and practical optimism, offering real moves for anyone looking to carve out a fulfilling career, even when life feels a little cloudy.