LinkedIn is adding a new ai-powered benefit for its premium subscribers: a built-in career coach that uses ai and LinkedIn data to help job seekers find, research and apply for positions. The new feature comes as the company announced that its user base has grown to one billion members as it looks to increase its investment in ai-powered features.
The Microsoft-owned company has been increasingly experimenting with ai features for its paying members. Earlier this year, it introduced the ability to use generative ai to improve profile descriptions and messages. But the latest advantages of ai aim to provide an even more personalized experience.
For now, the most notable feature for job seekers will be the ai-generated information along with each job posting. The tool can help summarize long job descriptions and evaluate whether the position is a good fit for a user based on the content of their LinkedIn profile. For example, you can highlight specific work experiences that users want to highlight in their application and provide tips on how to improve their LinkedIn profile to make it appear more attractive to hiring managers.
Because LinkedIn can tap into its vast trove of professional data, the advice it can provide is much more personalized than what you’re likely to get if you asked other generative ai services for advice, says LinkedIn product manager Rohan Rajiv. “This is possible because of generative ai, but also because of the data sets that bring all of this together,” Rajiv tells Engadget. “It’s your profile, your connections, and all of this that can essentially help you move forward in your job search.”
For now, it’s still early days for the feature to be released in beta to a limited set of LinkedIn Premium subscribers. But the company has signaled that it intends to make ai a central part of its service in the future. “Today marks the beginning of a new journey, one where the power of ai is your ally in every professional question and decision,” LinkedIn Chief Product Officer Tomer Cohen wrote in a blog post.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/linkedins-latest-premium-perk-is-an-ai-job-coach-120044855.html?src=rss
