Human-Centered Career Development in the Age of AI

As AI reshapes how people explore careers, search for opportunities, and navigate the workplace, how can career development professionals embrace its possibilities while preserving the human judgment, connection, and insight that are central to our work?

Join PACDA colleagues and career professionals for a series of in-person networking events throughout Pennsylvania with facilitated discussion, networking, and small-group conversation. Together, we’ll explore how AI and emerging technologies are influencing our work, exchange perspectives across settings, consider what must remain distinctly human in career development, and build relationships across the region.

Career professionals from higher education, workforce development, private practice, K–12, corporate settings, and other areas of the field are welcome. Participants will:

• Examine how AI and emerging technologies are influencing career development practice and the people career professionals serve.

• Explore where human judgment, relationship-building, and professional insight remain essential within increasingly technology-enabled career development.

• Exchange practices, perspectives, and emerging challenges with career development professionals working across settings.

• Identify at least one insight or practice to carry back into their own career development work.

Greater Philadelphia Event

Facilitator Bio: Jessica owns a private practice (Your Career Partner) and works with professionals navigating career growth, leadership challenges, career transitions, and complex career decisions. Her work is grounded in a clarity-first, human-centered approach that helps professionals strengthen their judgment, understand their value, and make intentional career decisions. Jessica has a particular interest in how AI and emerging technologies are changing career development while reinforcing the importance of human judgment, connection, and partnership. Her previous career included work in HR (IKON Solutions, AIRS) and Client Services (Bayada) before she worked with two resume firms (Career.io and Andy Thomas Careers Now).

Jessica Visek serves as PACDA’s Membership & Communications Co-Chair and holds numerous professional certifications, including Certified Interview Coach (CIC), Master Job Search Coach (MJSC), Nationally Certified Online Profile Expert Certification (NCOPE), Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW), and Certified Professional Career Coach (CPCC). She earned her BA in Political Science & Government from The Catholic University of America.