Recruiter's AI Digest #21
Resources and perspectives to keep you ahead of the curve as AI deepens its impact in Recruiting. 🤖
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This week’s digest
AI in the news - weekly update
🎶 Meta makes music: Meta have open sourced Audiocraft, which means it is now available to the general public. See examples below of what can be done with some simple prompts. It just became a lot easier to make music. (p.s. they used 20k hours of licensed audio to train their models) (source)
LinkedIn planning an AI Coach?: LinkedIn seems to be planning the release of an AI "coach" to assist users with job searching, applications, and researching things like a company's culture. Nima Owji shared this update on his Twitter (or X profile, should I say). Nima is a web developer and researcher who often releases screenshots of potential upcoming features within different products. (source)
In this week’s newsletter, some awesome material worth checking out:
📺 Video:
AI Will Save Recruitment (Hung Lee and Siadhal Magos)
📖 Article:
AI Delegation: The One Skill You Will Need To Succeed In The Future (Bernard Marr)
The (Not Artificially) Intelligent Future of Employee Service (Service Desk Institute)
And Steve Jobs's take on what AI might do to humans (from over 40 years ago!)
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AI Will Save Recruitment (Hung Lee and Siadhal Magos)
In case you missed it, Recruiting Brainfood’s Hung Lee chatted to Metaview’s Siadhal Magos about why it’s such an exciting time to be in recruitment.
AI will transform recruiting roles 🤖👩💻
"AI can take over repetitive, low-value tasks like scheduling and note-taking. This frees up recruiters to focus on more strategic, human-centric work."
Recruiters can spend more time advising hiring managers, building relationships.
Mitigating bias and ensuring accountability ⚖️🤝
"Recruiters must remain accountable for AI-assisted outcomes to avoid perpetuating biases."
Just because AI is involved doesn’t mean it will take the blame for poor decisions - the buck stops with the human! Transparency is needed in AI usage and decision-making.
Productivity and performance impacts 📈👩💻
Experienced recruiters may see bigger productivity gains as they have more experience and will know how to best leverage AI.
AI may accelerate junior recruiter skill development by automating early grunt work.
The future of AI in recruiting 🤖🔮
AI tools will become highly personalized assistants that learn preferences.
AI conversation between bots an interim step, not the end goal.
AI Delegation: The one skill you will need to succeed in the future
What is AI delegation? 🤖👔
Knowing what tasks to assign to AI tools vs. keeping for humans. Like delegating to a robot workforce.
Why it's important 💡⚡️
Using AI to automate repetitive tasks frees us up for more strategic work.
People who leverage AI will get ahead of those who don't.
Developing the skills 📚📈
Learn what AI can and can't do well currently.
Understand how AI impacts your role and find new opportunities.
Get hands-on practice using AI tools like ChatGPT.
Consider ethics - like data privacy and bias.
The future of workplace AI 🤖🔮
AI will keep spreading across industries and roles.
Mastering AI delegation will set the next gen leaders apart.
AI is just a tool - focus on using it to enhance careers.
Read it here.
The (Not Artificially) Intelligent Future of Employee Service (Service Desk Institute)
🤖 This article explores how AI-powered personal assistants could transform employee experiences.
The Promise: "Concierge" bots provide personalized, frictionless service to each employee. They know your preferences and can handle various requests intelligently. The goal is to provide better, smoother experiences compared to current ticketing systems. 🚀
How They Work: Understand natural language, learn from feedback, remember conversations. 📈
The Future: Immersive, proactive experiences via AR and wearables augment human abilities. 🤝
Read it here.
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