LinkedIn explores a rare and seemingly useful application of generative AI. The platform is testing a feature for paying subscribers that automatically generates personalized messages for hiring managers based on a selected user profile, according to Blog post on Tuesday On site by company exec, Ora Levit.
Short, cover letters appear to gather information from a user’s LinkedIn bio and present it in a professional-looking direct appeal. “Hi Sarah, I hope you are having a good week. I am excited to be connected about the Senior Account Manager position at Oustia. As an Account Executive at Mintome, I have over 5 years of experience managing accounts for brands…,” reads the example provided by LinkedIn. The sample message continues to indicate the educational background of the user and ends with a request to “call and find time to chat”.
“Using generative AI with information from your profile, hiring manager’s profile, job description, and company of interest, we create a highly personalized draft message to start the conversation,” Levitt wrote in a press release noon afternoon.
The feature announcement, though, included a disclaimer that’s basically given with all AI tools: double-check that it works. “Personalization is still important, so take the time to review and edit your draft to make it your own and express your opinion, then send it to the hiring manager, and you’re one step closer to your next opportunity,” the CEO added.
Then, there’s the biggest caveat: The messaging feature is only being piloted among premium LinkedIn customers, who pay a rather steep subscription fee. In 2023, the category of paid membership Starting at $39.99 Per month. Reminder: Access to ChatGPT itself is free if you sign up through OpenAI’s website.
Furthermore, LinkedIn’s AI messaging upgrades Not yet available to everyone Superusers. The rollout starts this week, and it will take time per Levitt post. As a journalist, i you have free Access to LinkedIn Premium. However, I don’t currently see an option to “Allow the AI to draft a message to the hiring team” among the recommended job listings.
“We’re initially testing this feature with a select group of Premium members while we collect feedback,” LinkedIn spokesperson Abby Semcken told Gizmodo in an email.
In many ways, AI rumors have been greatly exaggerated. Large language models such as ChatGPT can quickly produce streamlined text on almost any subject in a wide range of tones. But the Chatbots can’t achieve accuracy yet no Write especially inspiring prose.
Essentially, these AI systems gather concepts and language from their training and regurgitate what may or may not be a factually correct alphabet soup. It’s admirable in many ways, but it’s probably not the end-all of human writing and creative efforts – as much as it is Media executives And studio executives You may wish to be.
However, cover letters are undoubtedly one of the lowest forms of the written word. Creating a cover letter, and any similar professional communication, is often little more than simply repeating information from your clear, bulleted resume in crowded paragraph form. It’s a hard workout that just shows your willingness to do boring exercises.
In other words: it’s a perfect job for ChatGPT. people online I already found out Using generative AI to reduce the work of job applications. LinkedIn is officially on board with this idea.
It was a professional networking site It is owned by Microsoft Since 2016. Then, this year, Microsoft has spent billions partnering with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Microsoft is integrating OpenAI’s buzzy chatbot tool across its platforms and properties, including LinkedIn. Indeed, the site has made a feature for Help users build their profiles With artificial intelligence and its improvement Suggested messages Response help. Now, linkedIn’s enhanced generative AI tools extend to crafting complete, direct communications.
Assuming the feedback goes well and LinkedIn expands the feature to all paid users, it could be useful to save time for a large group of people on the platform. The work of introducing oneself to a potential employer may be reduced to just a few clicks.
On the flip side, the feature could end up filling hiring managers’ LinkedIn inboxes with endless spam. Messaging via LinkedIn is mercifully restricted across credit systemBut the ability of individuals to send Even five AI-generated messages per month can easily turn into a problem for those on the receiving end.
But LinkedIn doesn’t see this as a problem. “The tool is designed to solve the blank page problem and help everyone take their best step forward,” Semcken writes. “Rather than resulting in over-messaging for hiring managers, initial communication will be more informed and contextual,” she emphasized. Which suggests that hiring managers are currently being dumped by uninformed and irrelevant nonsense. Based on the status of my LinkedIn inbox, with no jobs to offer anyone, that seems possible. In other words: maybe AI can help create LinkedIn messages less unwanted.