Transcript
A (0:01)
You're listening to asbo international's school business insider. I'm your host, john brucato. Each week on School Business Insider, I sit down with school business officials and industry experts from around the world to share their stories and explore the topics that matter most to you. Find out what it means to be a school business official and get your insider pass on all things school business. Hello everyone, and welcome back to School Business Insider. Artificial intelligence is often discussed as a productivity tool, but today's conversation goes a little deeper than that. For school business officials, AI is quickly becoming more than a convenience. It's becoming a career differentiator. I'm joined today again by Aziz Agaev to discuss why AI fluency may soon separate average candidates from standout candidates in the job market. We'll explore how AI won't replace school business officials, but those who use AI effectively may become more marketable, more efficient, and more attractive to districts looking for forward thinking leaders. We'll also break down practical tools like Claude for Excel, PowerPoint and Word, and the specific AI skills school business officials should be developing right now. Aziz, welcome back on the podcast. Always happy to have you on.
B (1:24)
Happy to be here, John. Thank you very much for having me.
A (1:27)
Sure. So we were talking a lot offline about what is kind of the next iteration of AI and how it influences school business officials. And we really landed on the topic of it's not just kind of a nice to have, but almost a necessity now in terms of developing a skill set. So can you tell me why AI is no longer just a nice to have? Why do you think and why do you believe it's really becoming an essential tool for professionals, specifically school business officials?
B (1:54)
What I see, John, it was shiny Object for a few years. Everyone was talking about it, it was a hype and now it's the time for implementation. And when you look at different companies, I can say a huge number, I can say that a huge percentage of those companies now started to implement it in their day to day. Every website you open, there's an AI there. Every app you interact with started to have AI capability to it. So now it became from shiny Object to our day to day. There are some positions and professions who cannot live without AI anymore because they rely on research, they rely on creating documents, they rely on analysis. Now when we look at our profession as school business officials and CFOs at districts and every other profession, not just the school, but every profession, white collar, I would say behind the desk, here's an idea. If you don't use AI, Someone who uses AI will come and use AI at your position. And that has been my approach to this. We'll talk about it during our conversation. And I think now is the time. You know that saying, when is the best time to plant the tree? It was 10 years ago. What is the second best time to plant the tree? It's today. And if we don't start today, then one year will pass and then we'll say, what did we do in the past year and how much has changed in the AI world?
