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The responsibility of helping to create future-ready workforces is raising the strategic profile of recruiters, and AI will play a critical role in enabling them to meet the occasion. Yet, new data from LinkedIn finds that few organizations are operationalizing how their recruiters use AI.
Research released during LinkedIn’s Talent Connect conference last week in San Diego highlights the disconnect: Eighty-six percent of recruiters surveyed say their CEO expects them to build the workforce of the future, yet only one-third of recruiting teams consider themselves “AI power users”—strategically marrying their tech and human skills to drive business outcomes. Nearly half deem themselves “practitioners”: They may be using AI to boost efficiencies in their own role but not in a broader, strategic capacity.
According to the LinkedIn data, only four in 10 business leaders surveyed report being satisfied with the progress of their company’s AI use. Meanwhile, nearly half of recruiters say they’re concerned that the organization will fall behind competitors in the next year if their teams don’t enhance their AI skills.
“We are at the center of multiple waves coming at us at the same time,” LinkedIn Chief Operating Officer Dan Shapero said at Talent Connect on Oct. 21,
