along withAIAs (AI) technology threatens to displace jobs, it is increasingly important to use it to help people find new jobs.LinkedIn of users have access to an AI-powered “job coach” to guide them in finding their next job.
The Microsoft-owned professional social network wants to bring artificial intelligence to the forefront of user experience with the goal of helping job seekers prepare for their dream positions.
The beta version is only available to paying subscribers, who can launch the chatbot by selecting from a series of questions, such as "Am I a good fit for this job?" and "How can I position myself for this job?"Job coaches advise users on whether it’s worth applying for a job and provide additional information that might qualify them for the position, or point out flaws in their resume that might affect their application.
“We’re seeing a lot of growth in the market,” Erran Berger, LinkedIn’s vice president of product engineering, told CNBC on Wednesday.We had to build a lot of content on our end to enable this fast experience. When you're doing these conversational experiences, sometimes it's almost like search - you want it to be instant. So we had to develop real platform capabilities to enable this."
The launch of LinkedIn’s AI-powered Job Coach comes as the platform reaches one billion members and more than 140 job applications are submitted to LinkedIn every second, as the company’s Chief Product Officer Tomer Cohen said in a press release. He confirmed,Paid subscribers can use the chatbot for free and say they’ve seen an increase in their job applications, using AI-driven message suggestions to engage hiring managers and recruiters..
In the past, AI-powered job search tools have been criticized for being biased against female applicants and minorities. In 2018, Amazon abandoned its AI-powered recruiting engine after realizing that it discriminated against female applicants by gender in resumes. Similarly, in 2019, an analysis conducted by Harvard Business Review found that AI recruiting tools were also biased against black candidates recommended on job boards.
Earlier this year, Microsoft invested $10 billion in OpenAI’s technology, in addition to the more than $3 billion it had previously paid for OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company continues to compete with other large technology companies such as Google, Meta, and Apple, which have also invested in OpenAI’s technology.