Are you afraid of AI replacing you at work? Well, be better than that！

I know that we have way too much content about AI these days. However, I want to address something important. Many people who are afraid of AI replacing their roles at work are not trying enough to be better than it. If you cannot differentiate from what AI can do, you do not involve what makes us better than it - our human factor. Let's have an example to help you understand where we are going with this.

A clear example that Crossover Education 's community and I are noticing is Head Hunter's behavior. It is common to read on #LinkedIn that people complain about being rejected too fast and without explanation. Most of the time, you will read people saying that they were dismissed by filters made and controlled with AI. Nonetheless, are these people sure that it was an artificial intelligence selecting and rejecting them and not a human behaving like an AI?

Job announcements always have requirements. Sometimes, they are looking for Superman or superwoman to fit all of them; that is true on its own, right? However, within this checklist and all the requirements, AI will directly dismiss whoever does not cover all the requirements if the machine was trained to do so. It will be expected that humans could discern and think outside of the box, or in this case, a more updated expression - to think outside of AIs algorithm. Nevertheless, it happens that head hunters are behaving just like the machines. They are not being able to check beyond what's on the paper. They will open the CV, when and if they do, and will see if all the requirements are filled. If not, as any well-trained AI, they will continue with the next one.

The sad truth is that, for example, sometimes the job requires three languages: English, Spanish, and, the IDEALLY, Russian. However, the CV does not have Russian in it, but it has Chinese and French, let's say. Well, going beyond the requirements of a machine will be to notice that the employer was looking for someone with language facilities, and that ideally only means, in the best case scenario. Still, it does not exclude people with, in this case, two more languages to add to the employer team, making him/her a great asset to the company. Thus, the selection was a purely filling-the-blanks selection, something that a moderately complex machine or algorithm in any computer can do nowadays.

Now, I know there are good headhunters out there, but mark my words: What makes you unique and will keep your job is to present interesting prospects and connect the dots in creative ways. Only then will your employees see that you are better than an AI. It is worth noticing that this is a criticism of head hunters and, according to our international students, against... yes: LinkedIn. Features like - easy apply - for example, are becoming absolutely useless due to the same factor. It would be interesting to see a group of headhunters or AI programmers try to beat this modern problem.

However, in the meantime, if you are looking to help international students get their evasive ideal jobs, please get in contact. We have many capable young people ready to work, but they need a human chance to get there!

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