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Creative Career Conundrums is a weekly advice column from If You Could Jobs. Each week their selected panel of professionals from the creative industry answers your burning career questions to help you navigate the creative journey. This week’s question: “Is a degree in the field I’m working in necessary to build a creative career? I currently hold a great creative leadership role at a company where I’ve been building my career for a few years. However, I don’t have a degree or diploma in design; my professional growth so far has been based on experience, skills and self-study. To what extent is a degree in the field necessary to build a creative career? Sometimes I feel like my future and my next career steps depend on it. Yet, at other times, I feel that my self-study is more effective for the work I do on a daily basis.”Kat Wong, founder of career change platform Oh Yeah:First, let’s dig into what’s behind this thought and why you feel your career future hinges on a particular certificate. Especially if you’re already in a leadership position, I’d say your response to being in a ‘great’ role suggests you are somewhat fulfilled – and grateful to be in it.

When embraced and used carefully, AI tools can help gain perspective and boost productivity at work. Practically every company is making AI tools available to their employees. As the former VP of HR at Microsoft and a leadership advisor with over 50 years of business experience, I'm amazed at how quickly this rollout has progressed. Some people are all in, using the tools for nearly everything they do. Others have barely stuck their toes in the AI waters. I've been using a broad range of AI tools and encourage my clients to do the same. AI isn't without controversy, and if someone is strongly against using it — for whatever reason — I'm not going to convince them otherwise. But if you're wondering how and why you should use these tools, I'm here for you. Let's talk about three ways I advise all my executive clients to use AI effectively in the workplace.1. Use AI as a second opinionUse AI as a way to see things you might not have seen. Ask it, "What am I missing? "I agree with many that AI is lousy at most creative efforts. Whether written or visual, AI results can be generic, mediocre, and often embarrassing. The output usually deserves the "AI Slop" label it gets.