Merit America’s AI Essentials program helps you build practical, job-ready AI skills you can use immediately at work—no technical background required. The program focuses on real-world application, combining hands-on practice, guided projects, and career coaching.
You’ll build essential AI literacy and workplace skills, including:
Foundations of AI: how AI works, its strengths and limitations, and responsible use
Prompt writing and refinement for communication, research, and problem-solving
Using AI tools to draft emails, summarize documents, and organize information
Creating repeatable workflows to save time and improve productivity
Evaluating AI outputs for accuracy, bias, and relevance
You’ll put your skills into practice through weekly, hands-on assignments and finish with a portfolio-ready project that shows how you used AI to improve a real task or workflow. Upon completion, you’ll earn a digital Workplace AI Essentials Certificate of Completion reflects your AI literacy and applied, job-relevant skills.