There are two threads running on LinkedIn . One from older workers who have been made redundant and cannot get another job, the other from recently qualified young people who cannot get jobs. 43% of younger workers in the US are saying they have lost a job to AI.

A constant theme is endlessly applying jobs and not even getting a response to their application.  In large part this is due to the fact that the early stages of hiring have been handed over to algorithms (and algorithms with no manners at that). This is AI at its most dangerous, making tick box decisions in areas where ideally you need human judgement.

It’s clear this is not going away because it makes the hiring process so much cheaper and faster. This is the world of early-stage AI and adaptation to it is key.

 What can you do?  Realise that the world does not owe you a job.  Get realistic, (or cynical some people would say).  You are not talking to a human being.  Figure out what skills and experience the algorithms are looking for.  Realise that they are not interested in you at all, but only in what boxes you tick.  Make sure you get those boxes into your application and that you tick them.  What you are trying to do is get past the algorithm and get into the human part of the process (if there is one). 

 Research the skills and qualifications you need to have and if you don’t have them then acquire them.  Keep asking ChatGPT and its friends.  One algorithm has a better idea than you of what another algorithm needs. Your personal details and your experience are irrelevant, however great they may have been, they are not what is needed now.

 Learn AI skills, find out what they are by researching your industry Get your training up to date.  That will take you time and effort but there is no alternative. The world has changed, you need to change with it.  Every new advance in technology causes fear and disruption.  19^th century Luddites smashed the textile machines that took their jobs, herded them into factories and caused decades of suffering. In the end what resulted were new jobs, new products, and a rise in the standard of living.  This will happen with AI, but make no mistake, there will be suffering.