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AI Career Foundations: Roles, Skills and Roadmaps

See what people in AI really do, find your starting point, including the experience you already have, and make a realistic plan to get there.

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What you'll learn

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Distinguish common AI roles by day-to-day responsibilities.
  • Explain how roles divide and share the work on one AI project.
  • Map existing skills, including domain experience, to a realistic entry path.
  • Assess an AI use case and its success measures.
  • Build a personal learning and portfolio plan.

About this course

Many people want to “work in AI”, but AI work is not one job. Some people build data pipelines, some train models, and some build the application that users see. Others decide what to build, test whether it works, or check that it is safe and legal. This course shows what each of these people does on a normal day, and how they work together on one project.

You do not start from zero. Maybe you studied or worked in another field, such as finance, health care, law or retail. Then you know things that an AI team needs and cannot easily learn. The course shows where that knowledge matters, and how people with it contribute to AI products and lead them.

At the end, you write a career transition brief: your target role, an honest list of your skills and gaps, a weekly study plan, and two portfolio project ideas. You do not need to write code in this course. You need a browser and a text editor.

Before you start

None. You need a browser and a text editor, and you must be able to make a folder and save a file. You do not write code in this course.

Who this is for

Fresh graduates, software developers, analysts and professionals from any other field who want to work in AI. If you have years of experience in finance, health, law, retail or another field, this course shows how that experience counts.

How we made this course

Experienced AI practitioners designed this course. AI helped us draft the content; people chose the teaching approach and the examples, and reviewed every lesson. The outputs that you see are the actual results of running the code. How we make our courses

Inside the course

After Module 5Final assignment

Use every module in one practice project. You collect evidence, and check it against the course outcomes.

  1. Final assignment120 min

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