Recruiter's AI Digest #47
Resources and perspectives to keep you ahead of the curve as AI deepens its impact in Recruiting. 🤖
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Check out the awesome material this week 📖 :
I analyzed 5M freelancing jobs to see what jobs are being replaced by AI
(Bloomberry)The Best Way to Work With AI? A Study May Reveal the Answers
(WSJ)[Live] 5 AI-powered recruiting tools demoed by their CEOs
(Robin Choy)
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I analyzed 5M freelancing jobs to see what jobs are being replaced by AI
(Bloombury)
Analyzing the impact of AI on the freelancing job market, a study based on Upwork's data from November 1, 2022, to February 14, 2024, focuses on the changes in job postings and pay across various categories, revealing how generative AI is reshaping freelance work.
Job Categories Impacted: Writing, translation, and customer service jobs saw the largest declines, with writing jobs dropping 33%. 📉
Resilient Fields: Surprisingly, video editing/production, graphic design, and software development jobs experienced an uptick, suggesting these areas are less affected by AI. 📈
Decrease in Hourly Pay: Translation jobs faced over a 20% decrease in hourly rates, highlighting the financial impact of AI on certain job categories. 💸
Rising AI Skills: Despite expectations, data annotation and machine learning jobs did not see an increase. Instead, developing chatbots and integrating AI APIs surged, with chatbot development jobs skyrocketing by 2000%. 🤖
Read the full thing here.
The Best Way to Work With AI? A Study May Reveal the Answers
(WSJ)
In an illuminating piece by Steven Rosenbush, François Candelon from Boston Consulting Group delves into the practical application of generative AI (GAI) in the workplace. Through a collaboration with leading academic institutions and an experiment involving over 750 BCG consultants, Candelon's study offers valuable insights into optimizing human-AI collaboration.
Key Themes:
Enhanced Creativity vs. Problem-Solving Caution: GAI significantly boosts performance in creative tasks but shows mixed results in problem-solving scenarios, highlighting the need for strategic deployment. 🎨 vs. 🤔
Leveling the Playing Field: Lower-performing individuals show greater benefit from AI assistance, suggesting GAI's potential to democratize expertise across the workforce. ⚖️
Rethinking Workflows: The findings suggest a reevaluation of workflows to effectively integrate human and AI collaboration, potentially starting with human creativity before AI enhancement. 🔄
Strategic Business Integration: Companies are encouraged to focus on integrating GAI to address specific business challenges, either to enhance efficiency or foster innovation. 🎯
Read it here.
[Live] 5 AI-powered recruiting tools demoed by their CEOs
(Robin Choy)
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