The impact of AI on Americans’ job search, career advancement, and workplace success.

Whether we realize it or not, developments are in artificial intelligence increasingly affecting our career trajectories.

progress in Human capital management systemsmore strategic and data-driven human resources and talent management practicesand increased Pay attention to bias These are all factors that are changing how people are hired, developed, promoted and fired.

I Education and work in talent management and leadership development. I have used these programs and practices in the real world and continue to learn and research how to change these practices. Artificial intelligence and systems It is already a big business, and the profits are running out $38 billion in 2021. There is no doubt that AI-powered software has the potential to rapidly advance and change how companies make strategic decisions about their employees.

Here’s what that acceleration might mean for you.

Submission

Imagine that you are applying for a job in the very near future. You upload your carefully written resume through the company’s website, noting that the platform is eerily similar to other platforms you’ve used to apply for other jobs. After saving your resume, you provide demographic information and complete countless fields with the same data from your resume. You Then press “Send” And hopefully a follow-up email from someone.

Your data now lives within this company’s human capital management system. Even if they do collect it, very few companies are looking at resumes anymore. They are looking for information You write in those little boxes To help make comparisons between you and dozens or hundreds of other applicants and job requirements. Even if your resume shows that you are the most qualified applicant, you are unlikely to catch the recruiter’s eye, because the recruiter’s attention is elsewhere.

Get the job

Let’s say you get the call, you beat the interview and the job is yours. Your information reaches another stage in the company’s database, or HCM: Active Employee. Your performance ratings and other data related to your job will now be linked to your profile, with more data added for HR and Human Resources to monitor and evaluate.

Improvements in artificial intelligence and technology f HCMs empower human resources To look at employee data on deeper levels. Insights help identify talented employees who can fill key leadership roles when people leave and guide decisions about who to promote. The data can also identify favoritism and bias in hiring and promotion.

As you continue your turn, data about your performance is tracked and analyzed. This may include your performance appraisals, supervisor feedback, professional development activity– or lack thereof. Having this large amount of data about you and others over time now helps HR think about how employees can best support the growth of the organization.

For example, HR may use the data to determine how to do this Certain employees are likely to resign and assess the impact of that loss.

The platforms that many people use every day collect productivity data from login to login. Widely available Microsoft tools including Teams, Outlook and SharePoint can help provide insight to managers across files Workplace analytics tool. The Microsoft Productivity Score tracks overall usage within a platform.

Even the scales and Define behaviors The ‘good’ or ‘bad’ performance may change, depending to a lesser extent on the manager’s perception. As the data grows, even The work of professionals like advisors, the doctors marketers quantitatively and objectively. A 2022 New York Times investigation found that these systems, designed to improve worker productivity and accountability, had an impact It damages morale and instills fear.

Clearly, American employees should start thinking about how our data is used, what story this data tells, and how it might dictate our future.

Improve and understand your career

Not every HCM company has or is advanced in using talent data to make decisions. But many companies are getting smarter and some are incredibly advanced. At a recent Microsoft Viva Summit that I attended, chief HR officers from companies like PayPal and Rio Tinto outlined the ways they use these advances.

Some researchers claim that AI could promote equality by removing implicit bias from hiring and promotion, but many see a risk that AI built by humans will recombine Old issues in a new box. Amazon learned this lesson the hard way Back in 2018 when the resume sorting artificial intelligence that was created had to be abandoned when She preferred men for programming roles.

Moreover, increased data collection and analysis can leave employees unclear about where they stand while the organization is very clear. It is best to understand how AI is changing the workplace and to demand transparency from your employer. These are the data points employees should consider asking during the next review:

Just as you need to master traditional aspects of workplace culture, politics, and relationships, you must learn to navigate these platforms, understand how you are evaluated, and take ownership of your career in a new, more data-driven way.

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