Module 9: Build Your Career Agent
Weeks 14 to 15
Objectives
Module 9 objectives. By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- 9.1 Evaluate your career goal against market needs, explain the five parts of an AI agent, and state the goal as one an agent can act on. (Course Competency 1)
- 9.2 Identify the markets, organizations and sources your agent should target, and list the rules it will follow. (Course Competency 5)
- 9.3 Test your agent against its own rules across three runs and judge which rules to revise from the evidence. (Course Competency 1)
- 9.4 Justify your agent’s goal, rules and delivery choice in a recorded presentation, using two scheduled outputs as evidence. (Course Competency 1)
Overview
A chatbot answers when you ask. An agent does a job for you on a schedule and reports back. In this module you design, build, test and schedule your own career agent in Gemini, using your resume, portfolio and target market from earlier modules. It keeps working for you after the course ends. Avery, the student in the worked example, is fictional, and so is every studio on that page.
About 11.5 hours in all.
Watch
- What Is Agentic AI? (slides, PDF), with the instructor walkthrough video posted in Canvas
Read
Practice
- Name the five parts of one agent on the lesson page before you write your own goal.
Assessment
| Item | Group, points and time | Due |
|---|---|---|
| Step 1: Set Your Agent’s Goal | Process Work, 10 pts · about 1.5 hrs | Week 14, Thu Apr 29, noon, Discord the day before |
| Step 2: Plan Your Agent on Paper | Process Work, 10 pts · about 3 hrs | Week 14, Sun May 2, noon, Discord the day before |
| Step 3: Build and Test Your Agent | Process Work, 10 pts · about 3 hrs | Week 15, Thu May 6, noon, Discord the day before |
| Step 4: Schedule and Launch Your Agent | Projects, 30 pts · about 3 hrs | Week 15, Sun May 9, noon, Discord the day before |
Critique (Discord)
Post each step to Discord by noon the day before it is due; comments answer the question on each step page. Discord: course channel invite.
Due
All times are noon, Arizona time. Each item’s page gives its Discord, due and hard-close times. Work submitted after the due time and before the hard close (noon the next day) loses 10%; nothing is accepted after the hard close.