LinkedIn is Adding AI Tools for Generating Profile Copy and Job Descriptions

LinkedIn is expanding its suite of artificial intelligence features, this time adding tools that will generate content for user profiles and job descriptions. From a report: One tool announced today will scan user profiles for skills and experiences and spit out suggested copy or summaries to add to other profile sections. The company says it still recommends users review and edit what the tool has generated "to ensure it is accurate and aligns with your tone and experience." LinkedIn will begin testing the tool starting today and expand access to all LinkedIn Premium subscribers over the course of the next few months. Another employment tool promises to make writing job descriptions "faster and easier" and "streamline" the hiring process. Employers will provide information about the role, including title and company name, and LinkedIn's tool will generate a description that the hiring manager can then edit.

So where does AI meet Faked?

[oldgraybeard]

Most of what I see being hailed about related to AI, is just AI doing stuff for people. How soon before you don't need the person?

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[Tablizer]

Clones of the Dilbert Mission Statement Generator have been around for 25 years. It produced buzzword-filled BS as good as any human I've known.

AI vs AI, eh?

[Khopesh]

It appears we're heading directly towards AI-generated job descriptions and AI-generated resumes. The matchmaking algorithms will of course also be AI.

This reminds me of a story of a university class in the ~70s:

A professor has a scheduling conflict and cannot provide the lecture for a class. Canceling the class would put it behind schedule. The solution? Record the lecture, go to to the classroom beforehand, and put a tape player on the podium with a sticky note that says "press play when the class begins". Problem solved!

When the professor goes to the classroom at the end of class to pick up the player, the room empty is empty and the player is surrounded by tape recorders. Another sticky note says "press stop when the class ends".

What kinds of meta shenanigans will we see in this new loop?

Re:AI vs AI, eh?

[ranton]

It appears we're heading directly towards AI-generated job descriptions and AI-generated resumes. The matchmaking algorithms will of course also be AI.

Would this really be that bad? I find it similar to automating the stock exchange so buyers and sellers aren't standing around yelling at each other anymore. Now APIs can just talking to each other with humans on both ends dictating what they want to sell and what they want to buy.

The current necessity of having the skill to write a good job description or write a good resume only increases the chances the wrong person is selected for the job, because those skills are very unlikely to have a strong impact on job performance. Removing as much of both of these skills from the process is likely to be a good thing.

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[Nrrqshrr]

The problem is that you're assuming the employer's AI knows exactly what it wants and how to find it, and the employee's AI knows exactly what skills he has and how he sells it.
We all know people who, on paper, have studied the most and have worked the hardest, but then they start working and it just doesn't click. And on the other hand, there are people who coasted through highschool and uni, barely did the minimum, but the job is something they really love and the environment allows them to thrive.
If you

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[jbengt]

Would this really be that bad? I find it similar to automating the stock exchange so buyers and sellers aren't standing around yelling at each other anymore. Now APIs can just talking to each other with humans on both ends dictating what they want to sell and what they want to buy.

No, it doesn't seem similar to that. If the stock market analogy would hold at all, it would be AI evaluating stocks on both ends, dictating the buying or selling, with no actual people involved until after the deal is consummat

AI is going to kill us

[Archangel Michael]

We're catering to the stupid who will seem smart because AI cannot distinguish between helping a moron and someone who is smart but didn't use AI.

Of course, if you can figure out how to manipulate AI best (currently), that means you're smart, however, the AI will learn from that and make the idiots look even better.

We get what we deserve.

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[Locke2005]

The best jobs in the future will go to those good at working hand-in-hand with an AI. That's why I gave all my relatives Nest Home devices, so they can start training for the future. I can't be bothered to put my glasses on to check the time when I'm in bed, so I just say "Hey google, what time is it?" I've noticed my stepdaughter now does the same thing. Google might be the only thing preventing her from being late to work!

Re: AI is going to kill us

[aSplash0fDerp]

Are you sure we won't see logistics, automation and robotics make work from anywhere a better option than being tethered to a disgusting data network full of AI generated text that's been respun thousands of times?

I'm glad that I see something else and will keep my kids natural, rather than becoming part of the disposable economy. Isn't your nest obsolete now, replaced by a newer model? I also doubt google will be around on future networks, so your myspace reference is already a little dated. Disposable

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[Locke2005]

Google updates the firmware for the Google Home/Home Mini/Nest speakers. They have discontinued support for my OnHub Wireless Router because they want us to use their mesh routers instead. My point was that Google is training me to structure my speech in a way that Google understands. My foreign-born ex had problems with Google understanding her, which is hilarious when I can say the same thing and it understands me! I don't think the "Hey, google" key phrase is going away; I'm not sure how throwing generat

ChatGPT gets a job

[byronivs]

We are very close to this. It will be so much funny, except it won't then be, and then that guy who goosed the AI into talking itself into a job interview as a joke and maybe got a voice or blurry vid call to prove it, will get a fancy job. So because we're all chumps now, hiring gets weird. This may have happened already, but clearly hasn't reached a zeitgeist moment.

If you haven't started a tangible and easily accessible portfolio of what you produce, I would do that and compare it to what this tool can

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[Locke2005]

What will be worse will be when ChatGPT starts pulling a Cyrano de Bergerac and hooking up with Tinder dates instead of me!

Can I get ChatGPT to write my fictional resume?

[Locke2005]

It seems to be pretty good at lying.

Job titles in tech are all over the place.

[Joe_Dragon]

Job titles in tech are all over the place.

The same work can have lots of different tiles

The only true test of any use...

[Petersko]

...will be the technical interview. And I don't mean just IT technical. You used to be able to at least triage resumes looking for obvious duds. Now the duds may slip through the cracks with greater frequency. Grilling them in person on their ability to do the challenging but mundane will become the last tool standing. Those people who would routinely shine, but don't interview well, will be completely written off, because the prep work that goes into a resume and cover letter can no longer be trusted.

jumped the AI shark

[Walt Dismal]

Oh great. Not bad enough we have AI-generated phony college papers, now we have AI-generated resumes for offshore workers seeking to scam their way into an American position. Disclosure: I am a grain farmer who is an expert programmer in 27 different object-oriented languages and also champion Kuchipudi dancer of great renown in my village.

Blockchain

[dysmal]

I for one am waiting to see AI backed with Blockchain.

The synergy between these outside of the box technologies will add viral value to all mission critical applications.

(Pardon me while I go soak my hands in bleach for typing such an abomination)

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[sysrammer]

BINGO!

The third and final step

[Required Snark]

1. AI generated resume

2. AI algorithm selects employee

3. AI does the actual work

What could possibly go wrong...