CareerVillage, Inc.
Project Title
For project support to scale Career Village's AI Career Coach tool
Date
Mar. 06, 2025
Duration
18 months
Description
CareerVillage (CV) is a non-profit organization dedicated to democratizing career information and advice for underrepresented individuals, providing essential support to learners and job seekers as they navigate their futures. This inaugural grant to CV will fund a project centered on CV’s AI Career Coach—a personalized, chat-based career coaching tool offering a dynamic array of career activities, including resume drafting, skill development (both soft and hard), professional network building, college essay writing, and career exploration. As CV advances into a new phase of the Coach’s product lifecycle, their primary focus is on scaling and expanding access to this invaluable resource. Buoyed by strong support from partners, positive user feedback, and increasing demand, there is a clear market need for the AI Career Coach. By accelerating the scaling process, the Corporation will help CV leverage AI to bridge opportunity gaps rather than widen them, ensuring widespread adoption of the AI Career Coach to reach more learners, especially those from underserved communities who stand to benefit the most from this technology.