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Title: LinkedIn wants you to tell its AI about your dream job

Date: Wed, 07 May 2025 13:30:46 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/social-media/linkedi...

LinkedIn is still on a mission to persuade job hunters to apply for fewer
roles. But the company is rolling out a new set of AI-powered upgrades to its
job-searching features it hopes will make that prospect more appealing.

The company is introducing a revamped search tool that aims to make it easier
for job seekers to find relevant roles. Up to now, LinkedInΓÇÖs job search
feature relied mostly on matching keywords. With the update, though, LinkedIn
is ditching the keywords in favor of AI so its system is able to understand
job listings on a much deeper level. This should, according to the company,
allow job hunters to search postings using more natural language.

ΓÇ£Search used to be [a] very specific couple of boxes, and the box that
really mattered was the box that said, ΓÇÿshow me a title or a keyword or
skill,ΓÇÖ and you basically had to hope that you will find a title or keyword
or skill that the system understands,ΓÇ¥ LinkedIn product manager Rohan Rajiv
explains. Now, though, he says, job searchers should be able to just ΓÇ£say
what you want and the system will understand you.ΓÇ¥

That may sound like a subtle change but itΓÇÖs a potentially powerful one
because it allows people to get much more specific with their queries. Users
can still search for roles based on job tiles like ΓÇ£product managerΓÇ¥ but
LinkedIn will also be able to understand more complex searches like "business
development roles in the video game industry.ΓÇ¥

As an extra layer of transparency, LinkedIn will also surface indicators when
the company behind a given posting is actively reviewing applications.
Premium subscribers will also get access to AI-powered ΓÇ£job coaching,ΓÇ¥
with the ability to practice interview questions, pitches and other tasks.

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Still, AI-powered tools can only go so far. ΓÇ£The reality is that we have a
marketplace where the number of job seekers year-over-year is growing faster
than the number of jobs year-over-year,ΓÇ¥ Rajiv says. And heΓÇÖs aware that
his pleas that job hunters stop applying to as many open roles as possible
isnΓÇÖt the kind of advice many people want to hear, though he stands by it.

ΓÇ£The truth is that volume is not your friend in the job search,ΓÇ¥ he tells
Engadget. ΓÇ£It's only one extra apply, but you multiply that with 500
people, and suddenly the poster has got 500 new applicants that they are
going to need to screen. That's only making it worse.ΓÇ¥

He does, however, think that LinkedIn can do even more to guide people to the
ΓÇ£rightΓÇ¥ roles. ΓÇ£You can imagine the possibilities of this: for us to
say, ΓÇÿhey, this job probably [is] not a fit, but based on your skills, let
me construct a search that will help you find what you are looking for.ΓÇÖ
And I think that that is the future.ΓÇ¥

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