Author: Yetunde Ojo

Staying informed in a fast-moving industry usually turns into one of two bad habits: doom-scrolling news for an hour a day, or giving up on staying current entirely. There’s a better middle path. Here’s how to build a weekly research briefing with ChatGPT, or Claude and Gemini depending on your setup, one that does the monitoring for you and hands you a short, structured summary instead. If you’re still figuring out where AI fits into your daily work, start with our beginner’s guide to using AI at work. Why a Weekly Research Briefing Beats Reading as you go A weekly…

Most people’s relationship with Excel is either total confidence or total avoidance, there’s rarely a middle ground. ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini close that gap without requiring you to actually memorise every formula. Here’s how to use Copilot in Excel, and ChatGPT or Gemini alongside it, from fixing messy data to building reports you’d normally dread starting. Why This Is Worth Learning Now AI is already becoming part of everyday office work. The shift is already happening. Microsoft 365 Copilot saw a 250% increase in licences from one quarter to the next in 2026, a sign that more businesses are bringing…

A CV tells someone what you did. A portfolio shows them how you think. Most people skip this step entirely, or build one that’s just a folder of screenshots with no explanation of the decisions behind them. Here’s how to build a professional portfolio with ChatGPT, project by project. Claude and Gemini work just as well if you prefer either of those. No design skills needed. Why This Is Worth the Effort Credentials alone are losing ground fast. According to findings from the 2026 Hiring Insights Report, 86% of hiring managers said they value relevant work experience over formal education,…

You’ve got ChatGPT open in one tab, a note-taking AI in another, something that summarises your meetings running in the background, and a browser extension someone in your team swore by last month that you still haven’t figured out how to close. Somewhere in the middle of all that, you were supposed to actually be doing your job. That’s AI tool sprawl, and it’s more common than most people admit. If that setup sounds familiar, you’re not imagining the problem. Recent workplace research backs this up. Glean’s Work AI Institute surveyed 6,000 full-time digital workers across the UK, US and…

Ask five people in the same meeting what an “AI agent” is, and you’ll probably get five different answers. One says it’s a chatbot with a slightly better memory. Another says it’s a fully autonomous system making decisions with no human in the loop. A third points to “the thing we built with ChatGPT last quarter.” Most of that confusion comes down to one question: AI agent vs workflow, which one are you actually building? That’s not a small semantic problem. If you don’t know which one you’re actually building, you can’t know what guardrails it needs, and that’s where…

AI workflow automation sounds useful right up until you ask the obvious follow-up: which work, exactly? Most advice stops at “use AI to save time” without ever naming a real process, which leaves you with a tool and no idea what to point it at. That’s usually where the advice runs out. Most of it stops at “use AI to save time” without ever naming a real process, which leaves you with a tool and no idea what to point it at. A better question to start with is this: which repeatable process is eating my time because I have…

You open a design tool, type a one-line brief into an AI assistant, and thirty seconds later you’re staring at five polished layout options. That’s one of the most exciting things about AI in design right now.. It can make the work dramatically faster. Then you look a little closer at option three, and something’s off. It’s clean, it’s on-brand, it even follows a grid. It just doesn’t solve the actual problem your user came in with. That’s the moment a lot of designers are hitting right now. AI hasn’t made design worse. It’s made the wrong designs arrive a…

Getting the interview is only half the work. The other half is getting ready to explain your experience clearly, answer questions confidently, and not freeze up when something unexpected comes up. This guide shows you how to prepare for a job interview with AI, from anticipating likely and unlikely questions to running a full mock interview. Most people prepare for interviews by reading generic tips online or rehearsing answers alone in their head. AI gives you something better: it creates a way to actually practise, get asked follow-up questions, and even get honest feedback on your answers before the real…

Writing a CV is one of those tasks that feels simple until you actually sit down to do it. You know your own experience, but somehow turning it into a clear, convincing document is harder than it should be. This is exactly the kind of task AI is good at. Not because it knows your career better than you do, but because it’s good at organising, tightening, and rephrasing the parts of CV writing that usually eat up the most time. In this guide, we’ll walk through how to use AI to build a CV that’s clear, well-structured, and tailored…

You’ve probably had this thought before: “Maybe I should invest in something.”Stocks. Real estate. A side business. All reasonable, and all come with risk you can’t fully control. But learning tech skills is a different kind of investment; one you can start today, with zero market exposure. If you’ve been asking whether learning tech skills is really worth it, here’s the honest case for why it might be the highest-return move available to you right now. Don’t Why Learning Tech Skills Beats Investments You Don’t Control Most investments depend on something outside you: a market, an economy, someone else’s decisions.…