Advice from a veteran was that everything he needed to know was learned in the Army, including, “If you don’t like something, take corrective action.”

LW Patrick Calahan, who served in the US Army Corp of Engineers (1941 – 2021), shared this advice with his daughter, Christie Calahan.

After her company had downsized about 100 staff members, Christie, a senior marketing director, knew she had to take corrective action in her job search, so she revamped her resume and LinkedIn profile.

With AI and machine learning changing the world, she also knew she had to take corrective action professionally and upskill with the latest trends to be competitive in the job market.

Even though she knew she would have a longer career gap, she invested in an education sabbatical. On Father’s Day, Christie enrolled in MIT’s Machine Learning & No Code AI Certification program.

MIT is where her great aunt was the first woman to graduate from their engineering school. Many of her classmates had PhDs and were Ivy League graduates.

As an introvert, Christie had to take further corrective action and learn how to network in her job search. She joined the Great Careers Network and loved it so much that she applied to be on the Board of Directors as VP of Marketing.

Christie has just finished her education sabbatical and is now ready to bring more than traditional marketing to her next full-time role.

She knows how to predict customer churn, automate customer responses based on segment analysis, and what is possible when you integrate at the API level of large language models (LLMs), not to mention prompt engineering.

She has learned how to use RapidMainer, Dataiku, and KNIME and is now a whiz at AI acronyms. She completed projects including 1) Hotel Room Cancellation Predictions. 2) Predicting Cybersecurity SMS Threats, and 3) Prompt Engineering to Manage Restaurant Reviews.

Although she is still seeking to land her next success story, she took her veteran father’s advice to “take corrective action.”

Since Veteran’s Day is upon us, I would like to thank veterans for their service to our country.

Every year for Veteran’s Day, I like to share a favorite quote on what is a veteran:

“A veteran – whether active duty, discharged, retired or reserve – is someone who, at one point in his/her life, wrote a blank check made payable to the United States of America, for an amount of up to, and including, his/her life.”

Credit to John O’Brien for this quote, noted in a previous article on 8 Ways to Thank a Veteran on LinkedIn.

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