How to use AI to give yourself a head start at a new job

When you start a new job there is a lot to learn. There are projects, clients, and processes that are likely to be new to you. You may have been pointed at the employee handbook and maybe even given a mentor. But you probably still have more questions than answers for the first few months. As trite as the phrase “drinking from a firehose” may have become, it is a pretty accurate description of those first eight or 10 weeks. You should take advantage of all of the resources given to you to get up to speed. Read the documents you’re given. Familiarize yourself with key processes before you need to implement them for real. Meet with your mentor(s) and get to know them. You’re going to need friends and advisors at work. At the same time, AI may be a useful tool as well. Before you begin, find out what kinds of resources you can count on as an employee. For one thing, if you have access to an enterprise license for an artificial intelligence platform, you don’t have to worry about the system ingesting proprietary data that it should not have access to. For another, the company may already have set up bots and agents to help you get answers to key questions and to deal with repetitive t…