More and more unemployed people, regardless of their level of education, are using AI to find a job, according to a survey published this Thursday by the AI and Employment Observatory.
Write a CV or cover letter, take a mock interview and “become confident”: artificial intelligence is increasingly used by employees looking for a new job or job seekers who want to maximize their chance of being recruited. “I was an entrepreneur for eight years. And last summer, I had to retrain and return to the job market”explains Élodie Germain, 46 years old. A downside: “I had never really had a job interview. So I said to myself: “Why not use AI?”. “I gave him a job description, sent him my CV and asked him: “Based on this data, can you simulate an interview?”details the enthusiastic forty-year-old.
Simple, basic… even too much: judging the tool “a little too nice”Élodie asks ChatGPT “to ask him trick questions”. In return, the tool tells him that “the fact of having been an entrepreneur gave (her) a global vision of the challenges of the business”, “enough to give (him) confidence” and allow him, ultimately, to land a position as communications manager. Like her, more and more unemployed people, whatever their level of education, are using AI to look for a job, according to a survey published Thursday by the AI and Employment Observatory. Whether they are comfortable (56% of those surveyed) or not, no less than 77% of unemployed people, particularly women (79% compared to 74% of unemployed men) have used AI for this purpose, details the study.
For the unemployed surveyed, AI makes it possible to“improve the quality of applications” whether it is writing CVs or cover letters (40%), “access more job offers or better target them” (33%), “better know and characterize your skills” (29%) or “better prepare for job interviews” (19%), for example.
“Get loose” but without fail
Trainer within the network “My digital assistant”Clément Thonon helps job seekers, people retraining or those looking for new skills to better master these tools, “from the basics of office automation to more advanced uses”. When looking for a job, you need to “more and more sending in mass” their applications, and AI also allows the applicant to “to break away”. The counterpart is that“we can no longer have a mistake in a CV or in a cover letter (…) It’s a bit of an additional requirement”.
-Kevin Garnier, a 30-year-old marketer, never tires of these tools. In addition to updating the CV or the first draft of a cover letter, the young Rennais went so far as to put “a photo of him on vacation and the AI transformed it into a professional photo”. What to save “a few hundred euros” with a photographer, he rejoices. What about personal data? “There is a subject, it’s true, especially since these are American companies…”he smiles, but “it saves so much time, such practicality… that we cannot neglect it”.
“We have an easy “accept cookie”jokes Nasser, a 24-year-old graduate in marketing and communications, who recently created a video using AI to respond to an offer “creative manager position on Youtube with an influencer”. And for him as for Kevin, the feedback is rather convincing and the recruiters are coming back to them.
Conversely, for Alice Collier Titécat, 52 years old and former strategic director, “it’s absolute disillusionment”. “AI can be a great tool for preparing in advance on the dynamics of a sector, being as informed as possible about a company before an interview”she emphasizes, but “my application remains blocked in the first screening”. “These are bots that skim and a profile like mine, with 30 years of experience acquired abroad, has no chance (…) if there is no human to look at my course”.
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