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Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AI tools from Google, LinkedIn, and Salesforce could help you find your next job
Sometimes, you need to shake things up in your career. Maybe the job isn't as fulfilling anymore. Maybe changing circumstances are pushing you toward a new path. Either way, figuring out what to do next can be a challenge. Housing market shift: 9 states where buyers are quickly gaining power Skype is shutting down. If you still use it, like I do, here are some alternatives The kerning on the pope's tomb is a travesty Increasingly, artificial intelligence is helping people explore their next steps—even when they're unsure themselves. Chatbots like ChatGPT can offer some guidance, provided you know how to phrase your questions. But several companies have developed specialized tools that focus specifically on this issue. Google is leading the pack with its Career Dreamer. Described as 'a playful way to explore career possibilities with AI,' it's a tool that anyone can use. To get started with Career Dreamer, you'll develop a 'career identity statement,' which outlines your skills and experiences. After sharing your current job, the AI will ask follow-up questions about what that role involved. You can also add details about your educational background and any careers, industries, or fields that interest you. Career Dreamer then suggests potential career paths based on your input. (For example, among its alternate career suggestions for me were communications/public relations specialist, communications professor, and market research analyst—along with several jobs in the reporting field.) Hovering your mouse over each suggested field provides information about the type of degree typically required, the experience you'll generally need, a description of the job, and—if you click through—the average salary. Find something that looks intriguing? You can click through to a list of local job opportunities or jump over to the Gemini AI tool to craft a résumé or cover letter. LinkedIn, meanwhile, offers the Next Role Explorer for users whose companies subscribe to its Learning Hub. That tool showcases potential opportunities within the company, suggests skills employees should develop, and shows how many openings exist in each role. It also displays the percentage of people who have successfully transitioned from the employee's current role to the new one. AI, for that service, acts as a career coach, offering recommended courses and career paths. It also helps employees stay on track as they work toward acquiring the skills needed for a new role. At Salesforce, the company rolled out Career Connect last September—an internal talent marketplace that uses AI to help employees create personalized career paths tailored to their skills and aspirations. The tool is embedded in Salesforce's Slack workflow. Employees can view roles they're currently qualified for, as well as positions where their skills are easily transferable. If a job catches their interest, they can apply directly within Slack. Early results, Salesforce says, have been extremely positive: Ninety-one percent of the roles that were filled went to participants in the Career Connect pilot program who discovered those opportunities through the tool. During the three-month trial, 28% of participants applied for jobs via the platform. Given the ongoing fears that AI will take people's jobs—freelance positions have already seen a 21% drop in demand—it's somewhat reassuring to see it also being used to help people find them. This post originally appeared at to get the Fast Company newsletter: Sign in to access your portfolio
Mint
01-05-2025
- Business
- Mint
How AI is helping job seekers pivot to new careers
Finding the job hunt challenging? AI might give you some ideas for pivoting to a completely different field. Career change isn't easy even in strong hiring markets. Candidates need to convince companies that their accomplishments in one field can apply to another—and that betting on someone without exact experience in a role will pay off. Increasingly, artificial-intelligence tools created by companies including Salesforce, Google and LinkedIn are helping workers sell their skills, tailor their résumés to new areas and identify under-the-radar roles. Other job hunters are using AI prompts to turn widely available chatbots into career coaches. Brooke Grant had been wanting a new role inside Salesforce when she heard of the company's new AI tool, Career Connect. It analyzes employees' skills and recommends roles internally that they might not have otherwise considered—as well as training programs to help them qualify for those positions. Grant, who studied communications and organizational psychology, had worked for a decade in a position called change management, helping colleagues adapt to new operational processes. She uploaded her résumé into Career Connect, and the AI tool visualized different paths forward. One was her own manager's role, showing her what the natural progression would be. One was a role in AI strategy, drawing from her experience with AI at a former company. And one was a 'sales enablement" job—making sure teams have the right tools to close deals and coaching them on techniques and the product. The AI tool identified her overlapping skills for this job. Though she had no sales experience, she contacted the hiring manager, while asking AI for guidance on how to pitch herself. A new online AI tool at Salesforce, Career Connect, analyzes employees' skills to recommend roles internally. 'I would have never ever even applied for this role if that didn't give me the confidence," she says. She got the job and started in March with a slight raise. AI tools are opening up potential new jobs that workers might not have otherwise considered, companies say. In some cases, the technology uses natural-language processing to understand what users want and compare it with potential opportunities. Google and LinkedIn have created products for external users. LinkedIn is releasing to premium subscribers a tool called Next Role Explorer, allowing them to look at jobs inside and outside their current companies as well as online-learning classes to help them land those jobs. At Google, Career Dreamer uses AI and labor-market data to serve up career possibilities to potential job-switchers. The company released the tool after searches for 'how to change jobs" hit a record level last year. Google's Career Dreamer uses AI to come up with career recommendations for potential job-switchers. Google says the free tool has had hundreds of thousands of U.S. users since it launched in February. (It directs users to Google Career Certificates, some of which cost a fee to enroll unless students do so through a school or other partner.) The tool doesn't save users' entries on their servers, only in web browsers, but uses Google Analytics to track overall activity on the program, the company says. For a user who said she was an accountant at a Big Four firm and noted skills in problem solving, auditing and financial reporting, Career Dreamer advised considering roles as a management consultant or regulatory-affairs specialist. The program suggested a middle-school teacher consider working as a corporate trainer. A link to Google's Gemini AI explained both roles 'require the ability to engage an audience, explain concepts clearly, manage group dynamics, and adapt to different learning styles." 'Most people either aren't conscious of the skills they have from the jobs they've done, or they don't know how to talk about it," says Lisa Gevelber, founder of Grow with Google, an education initiative that launched the Career Dreamer program. At this moment employers often prefer turnkey candidates vetted by their experience, campus career officers and recruiters say. 'In a hiring-hesitant market, you're going to go with the least risky candidate," says Stephanie Ranno, a former senior vice president of growth for TorchLight Hire, a recruiting and staffing firm. Companies looking to hire might have 200 to 500 candidates and will rank them using applicant-tracking systems that parse résumés for the most relevant experience. Ranno says she has held free career calls with job seekers whose fields aren't hiring right now—including former federal workers—and recommends that they use AI as an early step. They can upload their résumés to free AI tools like ChatGPT, with a detailed prompt with what they are looking for and their current hiring landscape, she says. Then, they can ask the program for a list of businesses, family foundations or nonprofits that value their experience or have hired people with those skills. 'You can get all of these ideas; you can get excited," Ranno says. Many early-career professionals enroll in M.B.A. programs to pivot into a new field. Harvard Business School this semester tested an AI tool for students and alumni that compares job seekers' résumés with their preferred roles and recommends online classes to bridge skills gaps. Using natural-language processing, it also shows users job opportunities that could work for them, as well as alumni who work there to contact. Rachel Fogleman, who is in the M.B.A. program at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University-Indianapolis, tried using AI for career input on her field of public health—one where many need to pivot following funding and program cuts. She spent about 10 hours over several days drafting and redrafting ChatGPT prompts that job seekers in the sector could use. 'You're still telling the same story of who you are but telling it in a way that someone in the private sector understands," she says. She put the prompts that got the best results on her LinkedIn page. Her first: 'You are a career coach assisting a recently laid-off who is pivoting from governmental public health employment to a private-sector job. Create a list of equivalent private-sector job titles." Users should ask the technology, she wrote, for three potential directly equivalent roles, three potential adjacent roles and three broader private-sector roles with transferable skills, as well as multiple companies hiring for each job title and a specified location. Fogleman says she doesn't expect ChatGPT to replace an actual career coach, but it is helpful in translating specialized skills to other industries—especially for people who can't afford a professional. For a public-health educator, like herself, AI suggested looking into corporate posts such as employee-wellness program coordinator and community-relations manager. Write to Lindsay Ellis at
Yahoo
19-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Google's AI can now tell you what to do with your life
Got a degree and no idea what to do with it? Google's newest AI feature can help. The company announced on Wednesday the release of Career Dreamer, an AI tool that can recommend careers that best suit you based on your experience, education, skills, and interests. Grow with Google | Career Dreamer The process begins with the user constructing a Career Identity Statement (CIS), which can be included in their resume or professional profile, by sharing the title of their current or previous professional position, such as 'freelance technology journalist' or 'Senior Editor — AI,' and the industry within which they work. Once entered, the AI will return a list of potential tasks performed in those positions for the user to choose from, like 'Research and analyze emerging technologies and trends' or 'Interview industry experts and thought leaders.' The user will then be prompted to select at least three skills, such as 'research,' 'self-motivation,' and 'editing' before the system activates Gemini to generate the CIS. In this writer's tests, Career Dreamer returned the following as my CIS: I am a technology journalist and content creator with a proven ability to translate complex technical information into engaging narratives for diverse audiences. Through interviews with industry leaders and in-depth research, I unpack emerging trends and technologies, crafting compelling multimedia content that informs and inspires. My adaptability, self-motivation, and time management skills allow me to thrive in the fast-paced media landscape. That's a good enough summation of what I do for a living, I suppose, if not a bit bland and sounding nothing like how I actually write. Still, it's a decent starting point for further iterations and revision, especially for people who aren't professional writers. The system then presents users with an idea cloud of related careers and positions, ranging from obviously related fields like Technical Writer and Copywriter, to nearly off-topic suggestions like becoming a Software Engineer or a Public Relations Specialist. Hovering your mouse over any of the ideas listed will pop a window that shows the typical minimum education and experience requirements as well as a link that navigates to the position's information page that lists the average salary, job responsibilities and offers for Google certifications that could help increase your chances of landing that job. 'We hope Career Dreamer can be helpful to all kinds of job seekers,' Google wrote in its announcement post. 'During its development, we consulted organizations that serve a wide range of individuals, such as students navigating their first careers, recent graduates entering the workforce, adult learners seeking new opportunities, and the military community, including transitioning service members, military spouses and veterans. If you're ready for a career change, or just wondering what's out there, try Career Dreamer.' The tool is free to use on Google Labs's Experimental site. Note, however, that while Career Dreamer can help you find a position that matches your skill set and interests, it will not actually show you active job listings for it. You'll still have to seek them out manually on the likes of Career Builder or LinkedIn.
