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The episode discusses how AI can assist young people in navigating their career paths amidst the evolving job landscape.

Todays Episode In this episode of The EdTech Podcast, Philippa is joined by Harri Davies, UK Head of Growth at Imovem, to explore how careers guidance needs to evolve for a generation growing up in the fourth industrial revolution. Harri shares Imovem's mission to support young people, including those not in education, employment or training, by helping them build confidence, understand their strengths, and see a wider range of future possibilities. The conversation explores how too many students are still placed into narrow boxes — academic or practical, university or apprenticeship, traditional career or alternative path — and why this no longer reflects the reality of today's changing world of work. Together, Philippa and Harri discuss the role of AI in helping young people map their interests, passions, personality and learning preferences to future career pathways. Harri explains how Imovem's careers copilot uses personalised insights, live labour market data, and access to thousands of potential roles to help students connect what they are studying now with the lives and careers they may want to build. The episode also looks at the pressures facing teachers, careers leads…

People in this episode

Host: Philippa

Guest: Harri Davies

Topics covered

• AI in education
• careers guidance
• fourth industrial revolution
• youth employment
• personalized insights
• future career pathways

Keywords

• AI
• careers guidance
• education
• youth employment
• Imovem
• future careers
• personalized insights

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Imovem

Places: UK

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