AiGg AMA salon recap pt. 2

The extended AiGg team - along with our wonderful advisors - held an Ask Me Anything (AMA) Salon to address questions from our participants, and it was a wide-ranging conversation.

We’ll cover the notion of AI’s impact on the job hunting world in this second recap post.

Thank you to Susan Towers, Sandymount Search & Colleen Finn, 52 Ltd.

Q. Susan Towers, I'm going to put you on the on the hot seat for a minute. You are working with companies who are working in AI right now and you have been studying the future of jobs, the future of talent acquisition as a result of this tech transformation, do you mind sharing a minute what your position is on this?

A. Absolutely. There are two ways that AI is greatly impacting both recruiting and talent acquisition in part. Killer. The first is from the the client’s perspective. There are many companies are beginning to use AI in terms of their recruiting, attraction and retention of candidates. And there are a couple of advantages with AI, and of the biggest advantages (which also scares candidates) is this notion of filtering resumes.

Filtered resumes - a boon for companies

Let's say a job gets posted on LinkedIn, maybe 1,000 people can see that job. Maybe 200 people will click apply, especially now that there are Quick Apply tools on LinkedIn which make it very easy for people to very quickly apply for a job…

I had a situation last year for a search I was working on where I had 200 applications and the company I was working with at the time did not use AI, so I manually went through 200 resumes for a particular search and out of those 200 resumes, only four were qualified and we only interviewed two of them.

With AI tools, clients can quickly scan resumes and reduce to a more manageable number the number of people that they will then interview and screen. And that's based on how AI scans and leverages keywords.

Candidates use AI to their benefit too

Now the greatest fear I hear from many candidates is that they're nervous that they're getting filtered out right now from jobs that they believe they are qualified for - based on AI scanning their resume - and I have to tell you, I I don't think that's true to a large extent. I think people overestimate about how big an impact scanning tools are having right now.

There are a couple of key useful AI tools that you can use right now to help increase your chances of getting an interview. Some of those are, you know, resume building tools, things like MatchBuilt which uses AI to create great bullet points on your resume or JobScan which will tell you how well aligned your resume is versus a job description, and you'll learn which keywords you're missing and need. And then you know there are just the ability to help you, maybe with the first draft of a cover letter.

And, BTW, Cover Letters

Now, I'm very leery of cover letters generally. I'm not a huge fan of them, but some roles require them; let's say let's say I have an in-House counsel role at the moment that I'm working on and for an attorney role a cover letter matters. Crafting a great cover letter is not going to be something you can do one-and-done in ChatGPT, you're definitely going to need to edit it, but it can be a very useful tool for speeding up the process of writing.

Q. Colleen, how are you using AI at 52 Ltd?

A. I use it everyday, I see it as a tool for candidates to use to vet their resume against a a job description to make sure that some of those keywords are there in case the companies are using some sort of AI bot… like an applicant tracking system. You can use AI to make sure that you know the words that are on the resume are actually getting through whatever sort of screen that an organization might have.

(More Cover Letter clarity)

I don't love cover letters either. But it seems funny how it was hammered into us in college to to have to be able to write a great cover letter. And they were so painful and now nobody reads them. Maybe some people do, but it just seems unnecessary now. I think LinkedIn has, usurped the need for them. (So make sure your profile is complete.)

You know, the thing that ChatGPT does for me is it makes my brain a lot faster. I can take the information that's in my brain, I could just dump into ChatGPT and it'll give me a cohesive answer whether it's an e-mail or it's, helpful in talking about a candidate to a client.

And it's a way to remove your bias. It’s like having an independent third party to discuss whatever you're trying to get information through your brain out your mouth and or onto an e-mail or something like that. For my purposes, I use it for interview questions and questions for clients. I'm interested to hear what others have to say and if you have any questions for me and we run out of time, feel free to connect on LinkedIn.

To connect with Susan at Sandymount Search, explore her website here. To talk with Colleen at 52 Ltd., connect with her on LinkedIn.

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