Tech-Neill-ogy #133 - 3 May 2026

Your Weekly Guide to Leveraging Technology in College Counseling

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Jeffrey Neill
May 05, 2026

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Welcome to Tech-Neill-ogy #133!

Welcome to May! Wow. Things are moving quickly this semester. I will head to Sesimbra, Portugal this weekend for the annual BMI-THE Global Counselor Workshop and Forum, and I look forward to seeing many of you there. For now, I’m in the office this week trying to keep my head above water. I hope you all are doing the same!

One plea: you may have noticed that the newsletter now receives some sponsorships. Please click the links to keep this newsletter free! Of course, I hope that some of the marketing is appealing to you at the same time!

That said, enjoy the newsletter!

We hired one colleague for every department.

Last Tuesday, marketing asked Viktor to write the weekly campaign recap, pull performance from Google Ads and Meta, and format it as a PDF for the exec team. Done in four minutes.

That same afternoon, engineering asked Viktor to review three open pull requests on GitHub, cross-reference with the Linear sprint board, and flag anything blocking the release. Posted to private channel before standup.

At 9pm, ops asked Viktor to draft a vendor contract summary from three Notion docs and send it to the team. It was in #ops by morning.

None of them knew the others were using it.

Same colleague. Three departments. That's what changes when your AI coworker lives in Slack, where your whole company already works. It's not a tool one person logs into. It's a teammate everyone messages.

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"Viktor is now an integral team member, and after weeks of use we still feel we haven't uncovered the full potential." - Patrick O'Doherty, Director, Yarra Web

This year's college grads are AI-savvy — and a little brain-rotted

This year's college grads have adapted to AI. That makes them prime job-market candidates — even if they have a little bit of brain rot.

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4 ways to overcome the skills crisis and prepare your workforce for the age of AI

HR leaders say skilled experts are tough to find. The answer is a learning program that embraces measurement, exploration, and, unsurprisingly, AI.

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What Schools Should Ask Before Buying An AI Tool

From data privacy and staff readiness to classroom fit and long-term cost, here are the questions schools should ask before investing in AI.

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Half of Gen Z workers want ‘growth mindset’ jobs in AI era

Since the beginning of 2025, Flexa has seen a 240% increase in the number of job searches for roles offering learning and development benefits.

HR Dive

A Professor describes a learning experiment in which an entire class collaboratively wrote a 10,000-word essay.

An Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago describes a learning experiment in which an entire class collaboratively wrote a 10,000-word essay. I spotted it on LinkedIn, lost it, and then found the original published in the Boston Sunday Globe. Consider reading this at a time when you are required to hand in teaching guide(s) for next year, with a component on how you will integrate AI, or at least acknowledge that AI is out there.

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Worst Onboarding Ever

How long can you survive? A browser game about everything wrong with user onboarding. (This is funny.)

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10x the context. Half the time.

Speak your prompts into ChatGPT or Claude and get detailed, paste-ready input that actually gives you useful output. Wispr Flow captures what you'd cut when typing. Free on Mac, Windows, and iPhone.

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Here’s a prompt that grabbed my attention: 

Act as a researcher and strategist. Create a full presentation on [topic] using credible sources. Include real statistics, case studies, expert quotes, citations on each relevant slide, practical insights, and end with a references list. Make every slide educational, engaging, and defensible.

For [topic], I chose “the argument for going to university outside of the USA.” Here’s what some different sources provided:

I find it interesting the diversity of sources the three used. Also, it certainly shows that some tools are better than others at graphic design.

Please, if you have any great prompts or ideas, please share! Send me a note at [email protected].

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Webinars & Live Events Page

Look here for upcoming webinars and other events (and recorded ones) by the College Essay Guy! New events are happening all the time…

www.collegeessayguy.com/webinars-live-events

That’s it for this week, but first…

Do ‘Good’ Schools Stay ‘Good’? And Do ‘Bad’ Schools Stay ‘Bad’?

Aldeman: About one-third of schools at the top and bottom of rankings move toward the middle after 5 years — and about half shift after a decade.

Chad Aldeman

Happy counseling!

Jeff