AI skills are now a hiring filter, not a bonus

Across marketing, design, editing and support roles, AI tool fluency has moved from "nice to have" into the base requirements line.

What employers actually test

• Can you brief a model well enough to get usable output on the first two tries?
• Can you verify and correct what it produces?
• Can you wire a small automation between tools without an engineer?

That last point is where most candidates fall short — and it is exactly what the applied projects in the AI Courses track cover.