Turn Overwhelm Into a Plan: How to Use AI to Build a Career Roadmap

A successful job search starts with knowing where you're going. In this episode of Promoted, Merit America career coach Anja shows how AI can help you move from career-search overwhelm to a clearer plan by narrowing your options step by step. The goal isn't to let AI choose your path—it's to help y…

Turning Setbacks Into Opportunities: How Andre Turned a Layoff Into a Career Transition

Andre Johnson joins his Merit America coach, Anja Nikolic, to talk about turning an unexpected layoff after 25 years in healthcare IT into an opportunity to rethink his career direction. Faced with uncertainty, Andre chose to lean into emerging technology, exploring cybersecurity and AI while conti…

You're Not Starting From Zero: Translating Your Life Skills Into a Career

In this episode of Promoted, Merit America career coach Patricia Harris explains how to use AI as a tool to translate your existing life and work experience into a professional resume. Learn how to feed specific prompts to AI to surface connections between your past background and your future caree…

He Used AI to Interview Himself — And Got the Job: Jason’s Story

What do you do when your career takes an unexpected turn—and the job search takes longer than you expected? Jason Prater shares how he used a period of transition to build new skills, rethink his career direction, and land a new role. In conversation with his former Merit America coach, Patricia Ha…

From Job Sourcing to Job Offers: Using AI to Optimize your Resume

In this episode of Promoted, Merit America career coach Sabrina Louissaint breaks down how to optimize your resume by using AI as an editor, not a ghostwriter, in your job search. She focuses on a simple editing technique that helps your real, authentic experience shine through so that you can land…

Moving Up Without Starting Over: How Kelsy Turned an Opportunity Into a New Career Path

Kelsy Rodriguez started her career on the manufacturing floor at a major electric vehicle company, but she knew she wanted to build something more. In this episode of Promoted, Kelsy talks with her former Merit America coach, Sabrina Louissaint, about how she used upskilling, persistence, and a str…

The BAR Method: A Foolproof Way to Nail Every Interview

In this episode of Promoted, Merit America coach Rob Kairuz shares an easier way to prepare for interviews: the BAR method. He breaks down the BAR method (Background, Action, Result) and shares some examples  so that you can tell your real stories clearly instead of reciting a memorized script (bec…

From Ghosting to Getting the Offer: How Welen Landed His Next Role

In this episode of Promoted, Welen Wang shares his journey from 10 years in Supply Chain Logistics to starting a new career. Welen opens up about the challenges of navigating hundreds of job applications, facing rejection, and rebuilding his confidence after years away from interviews. He discusses…

How to Create a Career Plan

In this episode of Promoted, Merit America career coach Maria Villalobos explains why having a clear career plan matters in today’s fast-changing job market. She breaks down what a career plan is, how to define what you want, research your path, and map out the steps toward a job and future you fee…

How to Answer the ‘Tell Me About Yourself’ Question

On this episode of Promoted, Merit America career coach Anne-Marcelle Kouame breaks down how to master the interview question that sets the tone for everything: “Tell me about yourself.” She explains why the first few minutes matter, how to craft a compelling present-past-future answer, and how to …