Getting hired in the age of AI

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If you can say you worked a job where you had to show resiliency and adaptability, those are things that employers are looking for. We are individuals with unique experiences, unique energy and unique resilience. That's what we're going to get hired for. – Aneesh Raman, chief economic opportunity officer at LinkedIn https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20250825-aneesh-raman-young-people-employment-opportunities-katty-kay-interview

AI's impact on the job search by college grads

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"Recent history grads have a lower unemployment rate (4.6 percent) than recent computer science grads (6.1 percent), according to the New York Federal Reserve Bank. History is one of the most popular college majors among congressional staff members, and historians find work in some surprising places, such as the National Security Agency and the American Girl doll company." -Washington Post

How will AI affect my job?

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The answer to the question, “How will AI affect my job?” might be better stated: “Does AI look like it is going to do the most highly skilled parts of my job or the low-skill parts?” If it’s the former, your pay and business value will fall. If it’s the latter where AI can do the mundane parts of your job for you, then you might get paid more (and it might get more fun). 

20 Articles about how AI is Affecting Jobs

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18 Articles about How AI is Affecting Jobs

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What Would You Do?

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You have applied for a job and the interviewer asks you a question that lands like a bombshell: do you have a boyfriend? Then another: do people find you desirable? And a third: do you think it is important for women to wear bras to work? If you are a woman you probably know what you would do. Perhaps you would refuse to answer, complain or walk out. You would certainly be furious.

This is how 197 female American undergraduates, asked to imagine such an interview, said they would react. But they—and probably you—were wrong. The psychologists who asked them, Marianne LaFrance and Julie Woodzicka, orchestrated a real-life version of this ordeal, by advertising for a research assistant and arranging for male accomplices to interview the first 50 women who applied. 

Half were randomly chosen to be asked those three questions. Not one refused to answer, let alone complained or walked out. When they were asked afterwards (and offered the chance to apply for a real job), they said they had felt not anger, but fear.

Videos of the interviews showed how much this supposedly minor sexual harassment threw the women off their stride. They plastered on fake smiles.

In a final twist, the researchers showed clips of the videos to male MBA students. Fake smiles are fairly easy to tell from real ones: they involve fewer facial muscles and do not crinkle the corners of the eyes. But many of the men saw the women as amused, even flirtatious.

The Economist

24 Articles about How AI is Affecting Jobs

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Job-seeking AI will apply to thousands of positions for you - Boing Boing

These jobs are most at risk to be replaced by AI - New York Post

Zoom will let AI avatars talk to your team for you – The Verge

DJs are debating whether AI can replace them – Semafor

LinkedIn is rolling back its use of artificial intelligence – NPR

Will AI Make Job Recruiting More Efficient—but Less Fair? - Wall Street Journal

Busting through Linkedin’s resume screening with AI Tools – Semafor

How AI Is Helping ‘Fake Candidates’ Land Jobs - Wall Street Journal

AI may not steal many jobs after all. It may just make workers more efficient – ABC News

Video game actors go on strike over AI protections – Semafor

Rise in AI-Generated Resumes Overwhelms Recruiters with Low-Quality Applications – AllWork  

Will A.I. Kill Meaningless Jobs? – New York Times

Neurodivergent workers' AI edge – Axios  

In the age of AI, there's no future for workers content with being code monkeys — and they know it – Business Insider 

AI Doesn’t Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers - Wall Street Journal

Will A.I. Upend White-Collar Work? Consider the Hollywood Editor. – New York Times

Even if you have zero AI skills, these 3 tactics can give you an edge – Fast Company

Two-thirds of small businesses say hiring employees with AI skills could save them money - Ipsos

The A.I. Boom Has an Unlikely Early Winner: Wonky Consultants – New York Times

AI Work Assistants Need a Lot of Handholding - Wall Street Journal 

How to use LinkedIn AI tools to find a job – Popular Science

OpenAI CTO: AI Could Kill Some Creative Jobs That Maybe Shouldn't Exist Anyway - PCMag

How will AI affect productivity? - Brooking 

How AI Could Change the Odds of Landing a Job - Wall Street Journal

21 Freelancing Articles & 30 Freelancing Sites

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Freelancing Articles

18 newsletters every freelance journalist needs to subscribe to  Muckrack

4 strategies for getting paid what you deserve as a freelance writer - Insider

6 Must-Have Tools for Freelance Copywriters - Make Use Of

6 Freelance Writing Tips to Try in 2022 - Motley Fool

Are You Ready to Go Freelance? - Harvard Business Review

Chelsea’s Guide To Freelancing - Chelsea Cirruzzo, a reporter with U.S. News & World Report

Finding Freelance writing on LinkedIn - Twitter

Here's what a bunch of publications pay freelancers - Freelancing with Tim

How to ask for more money — and actually get it - Freelancing with Tim

How to get on an editor's 'regulars' roster - Freelancing with Tim

How to successfully pitch - Harvard’s Nieman Lab

A Journalist’s guide to freelancing - Julie Patel blog

Journalists are switching to freelance. 7 things they wish they knew first – Poynter

A Quick guide to finding your freelance niche - Freelancers Union

SEO Freelancing: 10 Things You Need To Know To Be Successful - Search Engine Journal

Successful Pitches shows freelancers the way - CJR

Ten Tips for Freelance Writing - StoryBench

What do freelance writers make? - Story Bench

What Freelancers Need to Know About Income, Deductions, and Taxes - Bloomberg

What J-Schools should teach about freelancing - International Center for Journalists

Where to pitch, based on data from the website, Who Pays Writers? - Columbia Journalism Review

Freelancing Sites

More Job Tips

14 Recent Articles about How AI is Impacting Jobs

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18 Articles about How AI is Affecting Jobs

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Want to Know if AI Will Take Your Job? I Tried Using It to Replace Myself - WSJ

AI-powered robotics will fuel jobs disruptions in ways we don’t realize - Semafor

The human side of generative AI: Creating a path to productivity - McKinsey

An Analysis of 5 Million Job Postings Showed These Are the 3 Jobs Being Replaced by AI the Fastest – Inc.

Gen AI is here to stay — here are 5 skills to help you stay relevant in the changing job market – CNBC

Swedish fintech Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people—after it laid off 700 people – Fast Company

Oops! Replacing Workers With AI Is Actually More Expensive, MIT Finds – Futurism

AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs - Wall Street Journal

The AI machines are not coming for your job – MarketWatch

 AI Talent Is in Demand as Other Tech Job Listings Decline - Wall Street Journal 

AI's job threat extends to CEOs who move too slowly in adapting to it – Axios 

AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants - BBC

10% of US workers are in jobs most exposed to artificial intelligence, White House says - CNN

Will A.I. Take All Our Jobs? This Economist Suggests Maybe Not. – New York Times

AI could help ending the dominance of the credentialed classes – Washington Post

9 AI jobs you can get without being an expert coder – Business Insider

Amid Fears of AI Job Losses, This MIT Professor Thinks It Can Fix the Labor Market – Inc. 

AI Can't Do All Our Jobs for Us. But We Can Make It a 'Superhero Sidekick' - CNBC

15 Articles about how AI is Impacting Jobs

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Job Hopping

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In 2014, I reported on a new paper about young workers who regularly quit their jobs and ended up better for it. “People who switch jobs more frequently early in their careers tend to have higher wages and incomes in their prime-working years,” one of the co-authors, the economics professor Henry Siu, told me. “Job-hopping is actually correlated with higher incomes, because people have found better matches.”  

Last year, the benefits of role-switching crystallized when I read a paper by the Northwestern University economist Dashun Wang. In a deep analysis of the careers of scientists and artists, he found that their “hot streaks” tended to be periods of focused and narrow work following a spell of broader experimentation. This is sometimes called the “explore-exploit” sequence. The idea is that many successful people are like good oil scouts: They spend a lot of time searching for their space, and then they drill deep when they find the right niche.

Role-switching is important not because quitting is so wonderful, but rather because sampling from different skills and fields is helpful, provided that you’re prepared to pounce on an area that clicks for you.

Derek Thompson writing in The Atlantic

It’s the People you Barely Know

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Distance acquaintances are more likely to help you get that new job than people you know well. That’s the finding of a new study of more than 20 million LinkedIn users. Researchers found weak ties, people with whom you have few mutual connections, are the most helpful. The “strength of weak ties” theory was first proposed in 1973 by a Johns Hopkins University sociologist.

Sinan Aral, a management professor at MIT and co-author of the paper says, “Moderately weak ties are the best. Not the weakest, but slightly stronger than the weakest.” The sweet spot is about 10 mutual connections between people. The usefulness of the connection to the other person falls when there are more than 10.  

Bottom line: When we broaden our horizons then the networks of acquaintances can go to work for us. The power of weak ties may have implications for other parts of life as well.

Read more details of the study in the journal Science.

25 Articles about Searching for a Job

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4 Tips for Getting a Journalism Job - MuckRack

5 platforms to help you find your next journalism job - Poynter

5 Tips for Aspiring Digital Copywriters - Mashable

9 tips to help you find your first job — and nail the interview - CNBC

Are you searching for a job? Here’s real talk about possible red flags - Poynter

Cal State Fullerton Career Center director provides tips for finding jobs virtually - ABC-7

Didn't get the Job? You'll never know Why - Wall Street Journal

Finding your next job: Three things to do before starting - Chronicle of Higher Education

How Companies Mislead And Take Advantage Of Job Seekers And Employees - Forbes

How Do You Apply to a Company Way Out of Your League? - Life Hacker

How Helicopter Parents can ruin kids' job prospects - CNN

How to Find an "In" at your dream company-fast - The Muse

How to Job Hunt (When You’re Already Exhausted) - Harvard Business Review

How to Pick and Ask for Job References - LifeHacker  

How to Request a Letter of Recommendation from Your Professor - YouTube

'Overqualified' May Be a Smokescreen - Fortune

Job-Hunters, Have You Posted Your Résumé on TikTok? - New York Times ($)

Not getting interviews? Troubleshoot your job search with these 3 checkpoints - Fast Company

Six Ways to Score a Job Through Twitter - Mashable

Should you Reveal a Disability in your Job Search? - Fortune

The top 3 skills employers are looking for in 2022 - CNBC

Tried and true job hunting advice based on my own real world job search - Fox Business

What the Great Resignation means for new grads - Fast Company

ZipRecruiter vs. Glassdoor: Which Is the Better Job Search Site? - Entrepreneur

ZipRecruiter vs. LinkedIn: Which Is the Better Job Search Site? - Entrepreneur

22 Articles about Job Searches

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15 Resume Help Sites

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Some places to find resume templates.