How AI can help with your job hunt

The Street

LinkedIn Career Expert Andrew McCaskill joins TheStreet to explain how AI can help you land your next job.

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00:00 What's the strategy that the job seeker needs to use

00:05 or to not embellish their resume,

00:09 but to polish their resume using AI skills?

00:12 I mean, AI tools, that's really what I want to understand.

00:15 - Sure, so one, you gotta go where the tools are

00:19 and where tools are easy to use, right?

00:20 So one of the things that we've implemented

00:22 in our platform is helping you build out your profile

00:27 so that you can actually identify

00:29 and market your skills better.

00:30 So we've got an AI tool that will help you

00:32 fill out your profile based on the skills that you have.

00:35 You can go in and see how are these skills transferable.

00:37 AI will help you do that.

00:39 It will even do some things like,

00:41 if you want to try to get that cold email

00:43 to reach out to someone,

00:45 then we've got a tool that will also help you

00:47 write that first email, right?

00:49 You've got a connection to this person.

00:50 You both went to the same school.

00:51 You both lived in the same city.

00:53 Maybe start your email out with,

00:55 "Hey, we worked at this place at the same time," right?

00:58 The AI tool will help you do some of those things.

01:01 Building those skills like that.

01:02 I think the other thing that you've gotta do is

01:05 you've gotta race with the machine and not against it.

01:08 So there's tons of AI tools and solutions

01:12 that can help you not just build a better resume,

01:15 but tell a better story about your skills

01:18 and a better story about how your skills

01:21 have been used in other companies

01:23 and other opportunities to drive results.

01:26 The last thing I would say is talk to your network.

01:30 Talk to other people who are in your industry

01:32 about how are you using AI?

01:34 What tools are you using?

01:35 What's working for you?

01:36 What's not working for you?

01:38 Your network really matters.

01:40 'Cause many of us are peer-to-peer mentoring each other

01:44 and we're sharing information in ways

01:46 that helps us then all sort of grow and rise together.

01:50 So your network is really helpful for that.

01:53 - So how does a person who's looking for a job

01:57 use AI to better match their skill with the job market?

02:02 - I think AI is embedded into a bunch of tools

02:08 that will help you search for work.

02:10 Like if you take a look at our LinkedIn values matching tool

02:14 like if you are searching for a job,

02:16 it will literally allow you to do a dropdown

02:19 that will say I'm really, really interested in roles

02:23 where diversity inclusion is a priority

02:26 or I'm really looking for remote work or hybrid work.

02:29 Using tools like that that have AI embedded in them,

02:34 they're helping you all around.

02:35 So I think that matching up this job for these skills,

02:39 some of that is already embedded in how you search for work

02:41 on platforms like LinkedIn and potentially others as well.

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