As AI threatens to steal jobs, employees are future-proofing their careers by specifically applying to job ads with AI on their listings — because if you can’t beat AI, you might as well join it.
That’s according to LinkedIn research, which shows that over the past two years, job postings on the networking platform that mention AI or generative AI received 17% higher application growth compared to job postings that don’t mention AI.
“Candidates are smart,” said Erin Scruggs, vice president of global talent acquisition at LinkedIn. “They show they want to go where the opportunities are.”
That’s why companies recommend detailing their AI plans in their job postings — even if the advertised role isn’t included in the plans — or risk losing top talent.
“I would consider it essential that most companies share at least a basic roadmap of their AI strategy in job postings to keep up with the market,” Scruggs added.
Furthermore, companies around the world should take into account: LinkedIn’s conclusion that job postings mentioning AI are popular in the market was based on data from English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, German, Portuguese, Turkish and Chinese. Written advertisements.
Jump on the AI bandwagon, or risk being replaced
The rush to jump on the artificial intelligence bandwagon comes with growing fears that automation will eliminate millions of jobs. Just last week, Elon Musk, owner of Tesla and X, told an AI safety summit in the UK that AI will one day eliminate employment.
“You can have a job if you want to have it for personal pleasure. But AI can do everything,” Musk told British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. “I don’t know if people are comfortable or uncomfortable with that.”
Meanwhile, investment bank Goldman Sachs estimates that AI could replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs globally in the coming years. Meanwhile, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna expects “repetitive administrative functions” to be automated first.
But he added that this does not mean that humans will be out of work. “People mistake productivity for job displacement,” he said. Luck CEO Initiative Conference.
For example, he points to the jobs created by the invention of the Internet. “In 1995, no one expected there to be five million web designers, there were actually that number,” Krishna said.
For this reason, former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong advised workers who worry about being replaced by AI to future-proof their roles by entering the industry because it does not require a “huge amount of technical skills.”
“Non-technical people can build valuable and new applications in AI,” he said. luck. “There is a tremendous amount of influence that an individual can have.”
Likewise, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently suggested that AI will “create jobs” — while warning that while people may not lose their jobs to AI, they will likely lose them to another human using AI.
It’s the one thing leaders can seem to agree on — and based on LinkedIn research, employees know it, too.
“AI may not replace managers, but managers who use AI will replace managers who don’t,” Rob Thomas, IBM’s chief commercial officer, said during a press conference. “It really changes the way people work.” Likewise, economist Richard Baldwin echoed the phrase “AI won’t take your job” during a panel discussion at the conference. World Economic Forum Growth Summit 2023. “It’s someone using AI who will take your job.”
