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DRAFT The 2030 Career Audit & Roadmap (July)

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Last edited 43 days ago by Christine Dahl.

📌 Why We’re Doing a 2030 Career Audit

In every profession — law, tax, advisory, creative — we’re feeling the early tremors of deep change. AI isn’t just a tool; it’s a shift in how value gets created and delivered.
What used to take deep expertise and hours of effort can now be done in seconds. But:
The machine doesn’t know what matters. That’s still your job — to interpret, decide, and lead.
This audit is not about replacing you. It’s about:
Seeing clearly what’s likely to change
Understanding how your strengths can evolve
Replacing manual work with strategic insight
Reclaiming your time and voice in a noisy world

🧩 What We Know (Based on Current Trends)

These are some signals we can no longer ignore:
Compliance work is being commoditized. In tax and law, the value is shifting away from form-filling and toward frameworks and foresight.
AI-native firms are emerging. They don’t “add” AI. They’re built around it. Their margins and speed will reset expectations.
Clients want different things. They don’t just want correct. They want explained. They want quick, interactive, and strategic.
Knowledge without packaging will be invisible. If your expertise isn’t turned into systems, templates, or training, it risks being ignored or undervalued.

💡 The Opportunity

If you’re a professional with deep experience, you are not obsolete. But your methods might be.
This audit helps you:
Spot what’s becoming friction
Reinvest in what makes you irreplaceable
Design your career to scale and sustain
You don’t need to change everything. You just need to change the leverage — and that starts with clarity.

Career Audit Session Overview

This session offers a guided reflection designed specifically for experienced professionals navigating today's rapidly evolving workplace.
For many of us with decades of experience, the current AI transformation feels unprecedented—different from previous waves of digitization or globalization we've weathered.
If you're here, it's not because you're behind; it's because you're an excellent learner who has consistently grown and adapted throughout your career. This audit isn't a tech demonstration or assessment of what you lack. Instead, it's a thoughtful examination of your existing skills, systems, and direction through the lens of someone looking ahead from 2030. You'll respond to carefully crafted questions at your own pace, receiving insight rather than judgment from an AI tool designed to help you see both what might be evolving in your field and, more importantly, where you hold unique, irreplaceable value.
The goal isn't to become someone else, but to become more authentically yourself in a way that thrives in tomorrow's professional landscape. There are no wrong answers, no time pressure, and no grading—just space to think with greater distance and vision about your path forward.



🖼️ Mini Slide: Closing Reflection Prompts

Use this as your final visual — simple, powerful, and take-home-ready:
🙏 What I’m Taking With Me
Prompt
Purpose
🔁 Something I want to let go of
Acknowledge what’s fading or no longer serving you
🌱 Something I want to grow into
Highlight where your future self is leaning
⚙️ Something I’ll experiment with in the next 30 days
Commit to one small, specific action
There are no rows in this table
“You don’t need a plan, just a direction and the courage to step.”

🌐 Public Coda Template Structure

Here’s the outline of a Coda doc you can share publicly. It includes embedded links, instructions, reflection spaces, and a call to action.

📄 Template Outline

Title & Tagline
Title: The 2030 Career Audit & Roadmap
Subtitle: One conversation that could change everything — do it with AI, reflect with intention.
Opening Section
Belief Statement: Your script excerpt (“This isn’t a tech demo…”)
Quick Start:
[Link to GPT with small button or hyperlink]
Worksheet download link or embedded PDF
QR code image (upload to doc)
10 Questions (Worksheet)
List all 10 prompt questions, each with a space below for note-taking.
Ask for Roadmap
Instructions: “After completing Q10, type: ‘Help me build a roadmap’”
Placeholder showing example output structure
Reflection Prompts (Mini Slide)
Duplicate table from mini slide
Provide three blank rows for manual response
Next Steps
Encourage participants to:
Save the doc
Ask GPT again in 30 days: “Check in on my 2030 plan”
Share anonymously feedback via a simple embedded form or comment
Footer / Resources
Link to Custom GPT
Link to facilitator’s contact (you)
Optional journal or worksheet PDF download
I can generate a Markdown export of this template you can paste into Coda quickly — complete with headings, tables, and placeholder links/QR. Let me know if you’d like that now.
And yes — a public Coda doc is within reach in minutes. Want me to build the Markdown scaffold for you?

WORK IN PROGRESS FOR CUSTOM GPT


Optimization summary
Suggested improvements
• Consider formatting the intake questions into a clearly numbered or bulleted list for quicker scanning.
• Add a brief onboarding or welcome sentence to set the tone at the start of the audit process.
• Specify how follow-up questions are handled if the user provides unclear or incomplete answers.
• Clarify if there are any guidelines for the length/detail of user responses to each question.
• Suggest including a closing remark or next step after presenting the audit results to encourage ongoing engagement.

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