LinkedIn is expanding access to its AI-powered job search tools to more languages, allowing users who speak Spanish, German, French, and Portuguese to take advantage of the platform's advanced AI recruiting assistant features.
First launched in May of last year, LinkedIn's AI-powered job search process Users can describe their dream job in basic terms, and LinkedIn's system can match it to real-world roles and opportunities.
As you can see in this sequence, LinkedIn members can now search for jobs that match exactly what they're looking for based on a conversational query (such as “Looking for a design role in the entertainment industry”) without having to know the industry's technical jargon or details.
LinkedIn says this process more closely mirrors discussions with career advisors and allows users to get more accurate and valuable search results through a simplified search process.
And it's already proven popular.
“More than 1.3 million LinkedIn members already use this AI-powered job search every day, and more than 25 million searches are performed each week.”
And in the future, more LinkedIn users will have access to these options.
Erran Berger, VP/Product Engineering at LinkedIn, explains:
“In the past, searching for a job often meant guessing at the right keywords, navigating through strict filters, and hoping you'd find the perfect role. With AI-powered job search, we have turned this model on its head. Now, our system adapts to you and helps you discover opportunities and relevant roles you weren't looking for before and advance your career.”
Berger says they have gone to great lengths to ensure the system works across languages and borders, based on different cultural understandings and different uses of terminology to describe job roles.
And now more people will have access to it, expanding the range of AI tools available in the app.
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In some ways this is a good thing. It can be difficult to know exactly what to say, but having a tool to help you with that can help more people get interviews. But it can also be misleading, making it extremely difficult for HR teams to screen candidates based on initial AI-generated outreach.
But LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft, and Microsoft paid billions of dollars to partner with OpenAI, so there's no doubt they're looking to bring AI into every element of every app and tool to get the most out of that investment.
While some of these tools are helpful and others are more harmful or annoying, I argue that AI-assisted tools should be restricted on LinkedIn. That way, AI-assisted tools remain as representative of each person's actual professional skills and insights as possible.
