66% of leaders won't hire without AI skills — here are 7 you can prove with projects
thisdudelikesAI · x · 2026-09-21
A Microsoft and LinkedIn survey found 66% of business leaders wouldn't hire someone without AI skills. The author lays out 7 skills you can demonstrate with actual work:
- Writing prompts that work: turn a weekly chore into a reusable saved prompt, showing before/after outputs.
- Fact-checking AI: verify 5 AI answers in your field and show where you caught a fake statistic or citation.
- Feeding it your documents: drop 10 work docs into a notebook and produce a one-page cross-document summary.
- Building a tool with no code: ship a clickable tiny tool that solves a real annoyance.
- Cleaning messy data: turn a dirty public dataset into one truthful chart, showing raw and clean files.
- End-to-end automation: chain steps so an hour-long task runs unattended, with a screen recording.
- Knowing when NOT to use AI: list 5 tasks you'd refuse to hand to AI and why — proof of judgment, not tricks.
Each takes a weekend, needs no degree, and produces something you can point to.
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