AI in Job Postings Boosts Applicant Interest, LinkedIn Research Reveals
As the fear of AI snatching employment looms, employees are future-proofing their careers by applying for job ads that clearly mention AI in their listings—because if you can’t beat AI, you might as well join it.
According to LinkedIn data, job posts on the networking platform that mention AI or Generative AI received 17% more applications over the last two years than job listings that did not mention AI.
“Candidates are savvy,” said Erin Scruggs, LinkedIn’s vice president of global talent acquisition. “They’re showing they want to go where opportunities are.”
That’s why she advises employers to include their AI plans in their job ads, even if the role offered isn’t part of the plans, or risk losing top talent.
“I would consider it a requirement for most companies to share at least a basic roadmap of their AI strategy in job posts to keep up with the market,” Scruggs went on to say.
Furthermore, businesses all throughout the world should take note: LinkedIn’s conclusion that job postings referencing AI are in high demand was based on data from advertising written in English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, German, Portuguese, Turkish, and Chinese.
Join the AI revolution or risk being replaced.
The rush to join the AI bandwagon comes as concerns grow that automation may eliminate millions of jobs. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and X, recently stated at the U.K. AI Safety Summit that AI will one day eliminate work.
“You can have a job for personal pleasure if you want to.” “However, AI has the potential to do everything,” Musk told Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. “I don’t know if people are comfortable or uncomfortable with that.”
Simultaneously, Goldman Sachs estimates that AI will replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs globally in the coming years. Meanwhile, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna predicted that “repetitive, white-collar jobs” will be the first to be automated.
However, he stressed, this does not imply that humans would lose their jobs. “People erroneously associate productivity with job displacement,” he remarked at Fortune’s CEO Initiative conference.
As an example, he cites the jobs produced by the internet’s inception. “In 1995 no one thought there would be five million web designers—there are,” Krishna added.
It is for this reason that Reddit’s previous CEO, Yishan Wong, recommended workers concerned about being replaced by AI to futureproof their employment by sidestepping into the business, which does not require “an enormous amount of technical skill.”
“Nontechnical people can build pretty valuable and novel applications in AI,” he said in a Fortune interview. “There’s this enormous amount of leverage that an individual can have.”
Similarly, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently stated that AI will “generate jobs”—with the caveat that, while individuals may not lose their jobs to AI, they will almost certainly lose them to another person utilizing AI.
It’s the one thing leaders appear to agree on—and, according to LinkedIn data, workers are aware of it as well.
“AI may not replace managers, but managers who use AI will replace managers who do not,” stated IBM’s chief commercial officer Rob Thomas during a press conference. “It really does change how people work.” Similarly, during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum’s Growth Summit in 2023, economist Richard Baldwin stated, “AI will not take your job.” “It’s somebody using AI that will take your job.”
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