How Your Small Business Can Use AI for Hiring, According to LinkedIn

"Chimka also notes that these tools were designed to cater to small business leaders-whose survey feedback to LinkedIn reinforced a common theme, echoed by many owners, that finding skilled talent remains challenging. This source of frustration is more of a problem of perception, rather than a lack of skills, he says. Applicants seeking to pivot into a new industry, for example, may not have the obvious qualifications companies are looking for, but that doesn't mean they can't do the job. LinkedIn Hiring's AI aims to give these candidates a fair shot by making the process more "skills based," he said."

"'When more people are looking for work, jobs tend to get a lot of applications that don't necessarily seem relevant to the position that they're hiring for,' Chimka says. 'It's really hard to identify that diamond in the rough.' The key difference between this tool and past AI recruiting software is that LinkedIn's version doesn't rely on keywords, Chimka says. Instead, LinkedIn Hiring Pro's AI dissects candidate resumes for all the possible skills they've acquired through their work history and job descriptions."

LinkedIn updated its AI hiring tools and made them available across English-speaking markets. LinkedIn Hiring Pro uses AI to sort applicants and surface the best potential candidates. Early user research found the feature saved small businesses more than six hours per week in recruitment time. The tools target small business hiring challenges by emphasizing skills and transferable experience rather than strict keywords or obvious qualifications. The AI analyzes resumes and job descriptions to identify acquired skills and aims to give candidates pivoting industries a fair chance, helping employers find qualified applicants who might otherwise be overlooked.

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