Searching for a new job is stressful, but there are a lot of tools that can help you stand out to potential employers – including artificial intelligence. LinkedIn Career Expert Andrew McCaskill sat down with TheStreet to discuss how AI can be an important tool in your next job hunt.
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Full Video Transcript Below:
CONWAY GITTENS: What’s the strategy that the job seeker needs to use or to not embellish their resume, but to polish their resume using AI skills? I mean, AI tools. That’s what I’m, that’s really what I want to say.
ANDREW MCCASKILL: Sure so one you go where the tools are and where tools are easy to use. Right? so one of the things that we’ve implemented in our platform is, is helping you build out your profile so that you can actually identify and market your skills better. So we’ve got an AI tool that will help you fill out your profile based on the skills that you have. You can go in and see how are these skills transferable. AI will help you do that. It will even do some things like if you want to try to get that cold email to reach out to someone, we’ve got a tool that will also help you write that first email, right? You’ve got a connection to this person. You both went to this same school, you both lived in this same city. Maybe start your email out with, hey, we worked at this place at the same time, right? The AI tool will help you do some of those things, building those skills like that.
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I think the other thing that you’ve got to do is, you’ve got to race with the machine and not against it. So there’s tons of, of AI tools and solutions that can help you, not just build a better resume, but tell a better story about your skills and a better story about how your skills have been used at other companies and other opportunities to drive results. The last thing I would say is talk to your network. Talk to other people who are in your industry about how are you using AI, what tools are you using, what’s working for you, what’s not working for you? Your network really matters because many of us are peer to peer mentoring each other and we’re sharing information in ways that helps us then all sort of grow and rise together. So your network is really helpful for that.
CONWAY GITTENS: So how does a person who’s looking for a job use AI to better match their skill with the job market?
ANDREW MCCASKILL: Yeah, I think AI is embedded into a bunch of I think AI is embedded into a bunch of tools that will help you search for work, right? Like if you take a look at our LinkedIn values matching tool right? Like if you are searching for a job, it will literally allow you to do a dropdown that will say, I’m really, really interested in roles where diversity inclusion is a priority, or I’m really looking for remote work or hybrid work, right? Using tools like that, there have AI embedded in them. They’re helping you all around. So I think that matching up, you know, this job for these skills, some of that is already embedded in how you search for work on platforms like LinkedIn and potentially others as well.
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