Scrolling through hundreds of job postings to find the ones you’re interested in—and qualified for—can feel like soul-crushing work, but there’s a new LinkedIn AI job tool that wants to help find your dream job. With the new AI tool, you can describe your ideal job to LinkedIn, and its system will scour through the available roles to find what you need.
So it’s just a glorified search tool? Well yes, but with an AI job search tool, LinkedIn can use your descriptive natural language prompts and find jobs that are similar on a deeper level than just relying on keywords like a regular search engine. You can now describe your ideal job on LinkedIn with a focus on things like your goals or expectations, and you might be surprised by the roles that show up.
LinkedIn’s AI job search tool may make it easier to decide where your career goes next. (Image: Pexel)
LinkedIn’s AI Job Tool Wants to Help You Find Your Dream Job
Like every other platform, LinkedIn has been pushing to get AI involved in every element of its operation, experimenting with different ways in which it might best serve its users. Unlike other platforms, however, LinkedIn’s AI job tools appear to be more efficient in creating clear use cases for the AI service instead of plastering another chatbot onto its page and calling it a day.
LinkedIn’s AI job discovery services, which were introduced on Wednesday, encroach on chatbot territory, but it does so with a goal. The platform has a very important role to play in connecting job seekers with recruiters, but it’s hard for them to find each other while wading through the flood of applications. Job seekers are forced to apply to as many roles as possible in the hopes of a single callback, and recruiters are overwhelmed by the flood of unqualified applications that make it hard to identify the right candidates.
This is where the LinkedIn AI job search tool comes in.
You Can Describe Your Ideal Job on LinkedIn As You Would with a Career Advisor
Instead of looking specifically for a role such as “graphic designer” and sifting through the jobs that turn up, you can use the AI tool to describe your career goal or the industry you want to work in and find options and related jobs that you didn’t know were out there. LinkedIn provided some interesting examples of possible prompts one might use with the AI, “I want to find entry-level jobs in video games”, “Use marketing skills to cure cancer”, or “I want to make cities more walkable and bike-friendly.”
The accuracy of the search is something we’ll have to experiment with to see how relevant the results are. For example, entry-level jobs in video games might turn up other positions in marketing or management when you’re looking for something in development. Still, describing your ideal job to LinkedIn and seeing the range of positions available could be a very insightful way to tailor your hunt on other platforms for a new range of roles.
How Does the LinkedIn AI Job Tool Work?
Using insights gleaned from LinkedIn’s Economic Graph, the AI job search tool uses large language models (LLMs) that have been applied to the platform’s entire search and recommendations systems. It works to understand the search query and return relevant positions, finally creating a ranking of its results customized for you. “To deliver the best relevancy, we use a cross-encoder LLM to score and rank jobs with the highest precision,” LinkedIn’s Wenjing Zhang explained in the announcement.
The GPU-powered computing and LLM distillation technique compresses the model and pre-processes key information about the job and the search query to present the most relevant results. The LLM-powered search is further structured by guidelines or “relevance rubrics” created by experts on the team, who help determine what would be relevant to each query.
The LinkedIn AI job feature explained by the platform. Describe the goal and look through more relevant options than ever before. (Image: LinkedIn)
Who Can Use the LinkedIn AI Job Search Feature?
This LinkedIn AI job hunt feature is available in English to all LinkedIn Premium users right now. Other users can expect a gradual rollout over the course of the week, but you will have to set the language to English in order to use the tool.
The tool is said to be the brainchild of two engineers at the company who presented the idea almost two years ago, making this the result of considerable work and experimentation.
What Do We Think About LinkedIn’s AI Job Discovery System?
From experience, we know that job hunting can be extremely grueling, despite the wide range of positions available out there. If the LinkedIn AI job tool can make the process easier and help candidates under the kind of opportunities available to them, it might be worth investing in. There are some ways this could backfire.
With more candidates describing their ideal job on LinkedIn only to see a list of roles they hadn’t considered before, recruiters might just be inundated with more applications of workers who are not qualified for the role. LinkedIn might be able to simplify the job search with AI, but users might also be led to a collection of roles that don’t fit their expectations while missing out on roles they are actually qualified to perform.
Using AI is a risky bet, but it’s inevitable that most platforms will embrace the service in their own way in the coming years. It’s time to have a clearer strategy for integrating it into your platform, and LinkedIn looks to be on track to do it correctly. Let’s give the tool some time to prove how effectively it can perform. Meanwhile, you’ll find us playing LinkedIn’s daily puzzles, which have only grown and gotten better since they were introduced.
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