LinkedIn launches free AI tools to help you find the perfect job
- LinkedIn launches Jobs Match and recruitment AI agent tools
- Candidates are told to what extent they meet the job requirements
- HR professionals can vet applicants with AI
LinkedIn has unveiled two new AI-powered features designed to help candidates find their perfect job.
Using AI, Jobs Match can tell applicants how well their profile matches a role’s qualifications before moving on to the next stages, helping them find the most suitable role.
On the other side of the process, HR professionals from smaller companies can use the AI agent recruitment platform to create job openings, find qualified candidates, and research candidate suitability.
LinkedIn improves the process of finding a job
In an effort to address the ongoing global skills shortage, LinkedIn has pledged to make these tools free to all users. However, premium subscribers get improved versions of the tools with more detailed information.
These new tools represent a next generation of AI for LinkedIn, running on its own proprietary models and first-party data rather than OpenAI’s models that power many of the platform’s other smart tools.
At the same time, LinkedIn recently published research showing that two in five (42%) hirers say not even half of applicants meet the desired criteria.
With four-fifths (79%) of recruiters saying they find the hiring process more difficult than before, LinkedIn hopes its new AI tools will help them adapt to a changing job market. More than half (55%) of the jobs on the social networking platform’s UK Jobs on the Rise list didn’t even exist 25 years ago, underscoring the scale of the challenge recruiters face.
LinkedIn Product Manager Rohan Rajiv said to TechCrunch: (They) spend three to five hours a day sifting through applications, only to find that less than half of the applications submitted actually meet the required criteria… This is completely broken, and we know it.”