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LinkedIn Hiring Assistant

LinkedIn Hiring Assistant

October 31, 2024

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🤖 AI hiring assistant

🤨 Difference in US and European workers

😡 Workplace incivility on the rise

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MEME OF THE DAY

ever since i was a kid i knew i wanted to write emails and work cross functionally across teams
— dennis hegstad (@dennishegstad)
6:38 PM • Oct 31, 2024

AI

The LinkedIn Hiring Assistant

Earlier this week, LinkedIn debuted an AI hiring assistant called “Hiring Assistant.” Creative name for the new tech!

The tool can source candidates and ask screening questions on autopilot, according to LinkedIn.

“Hiring Assistant” also invites recruiters to outline the role they’re looking to fill, or describe their perfect candidate. The tool is expected to create hiring plans, source job candidates, and analyze search results.

Hiring professionals will be able to use the tool to conduct outreach in bulk, but with customized messages, and it will also ask screening questions. And through feedback, it learns the user’s preferences.

“The idea is, as the hiring assistant works with the recruiter, it learns from its interactions with the recruiter. The hiring assistant learns from the feedback, and it becomes better and better at helping the recruiter do their job.”

-Erran Berger, LinkedIn’s lead product engineer

LinkedIn has been using the product internally, but plans to make it available to a select group over the next year, and eventually sell it as an add-on to LinkedIn’s Recruiter product.

LinkedIn’s lead product engineer says Hiring Assistant’s deep collection of data is what will set it apart from other AI agents in the recruiting space.

He also added that every action it takes will be logged and audited to ensure transparency and fairness to avoid bias in the hiring process.

WORKFORCE

The Difference Between US and European Workers

Work cultures in the U.S. and Europe appear to align with some of the most common stereotypes, according to last week’s report from KickResume.

In a survey of more than 1,200 workers in the U.S. and Europe, 40% of Americans said they work 41-50 hours per week, compared to only 26% of Europeans. Here are the other key findings from the report that illustrate the differences in work culture on the other side of the Atlantic:

A staggering 60% of Americans never take longer holidays (2+ weeks).
More than 33% of Americans admitted to often feeling guilty about taking time off, whereas only 18% of Europeans shared the same sentiment.
30% of European respondents took more than 25 vacation days, while only 6% of Americans enjoyed that much time off.
51% of Europeans are either ”happy” or ”very happy” with their work-life balance.
Nearly 19% of American respondents said they feel pressured to avoid taking sick days.
8% of Americans reported working more than 51 hours a week, compared to only 5% of Europeans.

Full results of the study HERE.

POLITICS

Workplace Incivility On The Rise

Good ole election season in America. When everyone seems to put aside their differences and get along for the good of the country!

Well, not according to SHRM…

Incivility in the workplace rose 27% from the spring to summer months, Society for Human Resource Management researchers found in a survey of 1,600+ U.S. workers conducted from late August through early September.

Nearly half of workers attributed the incivility encountered to political viewpoint differences, and many blamed leadership. Roughly 7 in 10 said their managers could have done more to address incivility, and 65% said business goals take precedence over employee well-being.

Workers are seemingly becoming more vocal about politics at work with the election only a week away. In July, a Monster report revealed that 14% of workers would rather get a cavity filled than discuss politics at work.

Company leadership has incentive to avoid politics as well. An Indeed survey from August revealed nearly 40% of millennial and Gen Z workers said they’d leave a job if their CEO expressed different political views.

That certainly can’t be good for the future of work in our country…

A similar study around the 2022 midterm elections showed that tempers piped down after the results of the election, so at least we’re almost over the hill. Then everyone can go back to being on the same team of complaining about their bosses rather than politicians.

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