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Occasions are incredible for work searchers - a free eBook to kick you off - Is it accurate to say that you are en route to a Memorial Day grill? Have you thought about that it is an extraordinary chance to organize on the off chance that you are searching for an occupation? Numerous new position searchers or individuals who havent searched for work in quite a while may not think about the shrouded activity market.â Sounds evil, however all it truly implies is that most (70 80% or more!) of occupations arent really loaded up with individuals applying to a vocation posting or declaration; they are filled by means of individual associations. You can perceive any reason why its a smart thought to jump on this systems administration bandwagon!â Networking is a colossal theme, and I have tons to state regarding the matter, yet since we are amidst another occasion, lets leave it at this: On the off chance that youre setting off to an excursion or gathering, you will presumably have a chance to meet some new individuals. How might you present yourself with an eye toward checking whether there is a potential profession connect with your new acquaintance?â Ask somebody in the event that they did anything fun over the summerStrike up certain discussions that have NOTHING to do with your pursuit of employment. No one can tell where youll meet the expert association that will connect you to another chance. In the event that youd like a duplicate of my digital book about how to upgrade your systems administration for occasions (or whenever, truly), buy in to get my blog by means of email. (You should buy in by means of the email connect to get the eBook, in spite of the fact that RSS is an alternative also.) Its free! Snap here to buy in and get a free digital book. Figure out how I can assist you with exploring your quest for new employment. photograph by avixyz

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Building an AI-first company, are we ready- Hays careers advice Artificial Intelligence (AI) in its short form is currently one of the most common phrases entered into search engines.  This Google Trends graph  suggests Artificial Intelligence popularity to be reaching the same level as it was in 2004, following the release of science fiction movie I, Robot starring Will Smith.  I am in no way attempting to compare the popularity of Will Smith to the current interest in AI, but time has proven that what was once science fiction, is now becoming real. AI has started to become more tangible and can be put to good business use by AI-first organisations. There are a lot of interesting views on whether AI is a threat or an opportunity, or whether AI needs to be regulated, a topic which we have already explored in depth. I now believe it’s time for businesses to take this opportunity and embrace AI for business transformation and growth.  I feel excited because AI has started to travel from the world of academia comprising of computer scientists, physicists and mathematicians, to the wider world of business and consumers.  AI has the capability to shift the productivity and revenue dial for a lot of companies by significant margins. I am lucky to be a part of influencing some of the first strategies; mobile-first, API-first and cloud-first, and also see the benefit of implementing these strategies. Based on my experience, here are the four key areas to focus on if you want to become an AI-first company, and gain a competitive advantage: 1. Build an AI-first culture This is the most challenging and important part of transformation, the part which will get people ready for the new and exciting world of AI. The end product will end up on the lap of end users, be it consumer or employees. If businesses really want to thrive in this exciting age of AI and data powered systems, they will need to invest in its people to train and use the products built with AI technology. A good training plan, group learning boards and exercises will help employees to trust the output of the systems and use it as a companion to make the decisions on their behalf, and this trust is key to building an AI-first company. Someone of great wisdom said to me once that “if you think you are not a software company you may not be a company in future”, so like all good software companies, every employee should be encouraged to embrace AI. 2. Existing products and tools â€" looking through an AI lens   One of the keys to becoming a true AI-first company is looking at all products and services you offer (B2B and B2C) through an AI lens. All existing products, software, tools, services used by employees, offered as B2B and B2C engagements can be assessed, made smarter or replaced by AI. Take  recruitment for instance, are you still stuck with developing a tool which can only search based on keywords and fields entered by a recruiter? AI enabled search can transform this system by getting trained to generate the searches for our recruiters rather than recruiters having to search and find top candidates for a given job. Are recruiters still having to arrange an interview manually, or do you have an AI assistant who can do that for them? Are you having to respond to emails yourself while there are so many AI services which can help generate “smart replies”  which are passed onto you to edit and send? There are many such use cases and applications in various industry domains and products which, if applied, can bring some serious productivity improvements.  So, understand the existing products, look at them through an AI lens, plugin AI services and transform the culture and usage. Obviously, once you have evaluated this you need an AI architecture to integrate and enhance existing products and services, but that’s a separate blog altogether. 3. Develop an automation culture and approach In software, we always used to automate something if we knew that the process was predictable, could be documented and was less laborious than doing the process manually. This approach meant most of the time, the percentage of automation possible was claimed to be 50-60 percent , but practically it translated to 10-20 percent. The advent and availability of AI-based automation facility transforms and changes the whole of this past approach to automation. Automation no longer needs to be based on a scripted well-defined process, but a machine which is trained to perform a task as a normal human being would do. The automation can now handle most of the exception scenarios on a massive scale. Although it sounds like a simple thing, it has a very deep impact on automation and again points at numerous use cases which I am sure we are already seeing or will see soon as products in the marketplace. For example, one of the common use cases for IT services was automated software testing. AI will harvest a product which can act as a robotic tester for all of your software products and releases instead of software testing automation. Similarly one of the areas where AI can help and transform now is manual data entry into the system. An example within the recruitment world could be creating a well-tagged/classified job and candidate profile in the system by a user. In other industries automation use cases could be creating a customer record in the CRM system and tagging them with the right business section/department, recording a call log in the system, etc.  These are very promising automation use cases and close to reality where systems for end users will not be to perform grunt work but rather produce meaningful output for them. So assess what problems your business users and employees solve on a daily basis, and take the grunt work away from them with automation powered by AI. 4. Develop unique data propositions This is the key to AI strategy and the only one which will give any business a competitive advantage in the long run over others. AI-based products and services are a combination of Algorithm + Computing Power + Data. AI and machine learning algorithms will be open to all, computing power is available in abundance and cheap on the cloud, however, the data points generated in the company are the unique and key differentiator. A good data strategy and partnership which can create a unique data set to deliver a use case powered by AI algorithms, sitting on top of the combined meaningful data store, will have a competitive advantage. The businesses who nurture and care for their unique data points and formulate an intelligent data strategy will have the upper hand. AI is a very vast and broadly used topic these days. I hope the above article gives you a basic approach to start acting and using AI to best of your business advantage and take your first step to being a true AI-first company. You can read more digital transformation insights and advice below:   Ensuring digitalisation in your business is a success Forget about the robots â€" four practical ways to stay relevant AI Will Be a Big Part of Our Future â€" but What Does That Mean for Businesses Searching for Talent? SMEs-you need to fix your digital skills gap Automation: Job killer or temp job cultivator?

6 Ways Career Coaches are Adding Value with Jobscan

6 Ways Career Coaches are Adding Value with Jobscan 6 Ways Career Coaches are Adding Value with Jobscan Vocation mentors and business experts have been utilizing Jobscans resume and LinkedIn advancement instruments for quite a long time to enhance their instructing and give more an incentive to their customers. We connected with five mentors and masters across North America to find out about the various ways theyre utilizing Jobscan, regardless of whether it be a personal free or Premium account or enterprise-level Jobscan Premium or Coach accounts: Lise Stransky, private and agreement profession mentor and facilitator situated in Calgary, Alberta Bounce McIntosh, LinkedIn and resume expert at the Career Center of Lowell Ruth Kunstadter, Career and Transitions Coach at New Pathways Coaching, LLC Hannah Morgan, Assistant Director of Simon Business Schools Career Management Center at the University of Rochester Jen St. Pierre, Warriors to Work Specialist at Wounded Warrior Project I am not a resume author, said Lise Stransky, who utilizes the Jobscan continue enhancement apparatus directly off the bat to guarantee her customers are carrying a quality resume to the table before she gets the chance to work. She reveals to her customers, I would truly suggest you modify your resume before you send it to me and pay me for a survey, and heres an apparatus to perceive how well youve as of now modified it. Sway McIntosh, then again, likes to use Jobscan to put the completing addresses a customers resume. When we have their resume to what they think they like, I will pull up Jobscan and glue their resume just as their set of working responsibilities. That is the point at which they can truly perceive how effective they are as far as watchword coordinate and the rate. Here are a couple of ways counselors are offering some incentive to their customers and understudies with Jobscan: 1) Jobscan is a reminder for work searchers Its educational for individuals, said Ruth Kunstadter. Individuals think they have a decent resume for what theyre attempting to apply for, however a great deal of them dont. With regards to helping a vocation searcher improve their resume, in some cases the initial step is demonstrating to them that there is opportunity to get better. At the point when an occupation searcher sees a Jobscan Match Report with a low evaluating just because, it can make them pay heed. The Match rate at the highest point of the Match Report demonstrates how much work there is to be finished. Jobscan prescribes raising your score to 80% before applying, if conceivable. Normally their [Match Report] grades arent that extraordinary and theyre truly stunned, said Lise. Stunned that their resume is thus, what they would state, poor. I state, No, its not poor. Its not focused on.' Whatever it takes to move that outlook, said Hannah Morgan, since this has been continuing for a considerable length of time where [the understudy work seekers] would send that equivalent unmodified resume to each activity without tweaking it like it was 1980. 2) Jobscan approves what mentors are instructing Its an eye opener since its an instrument that gives them what we attempt to let them know, which is choose the watchwords in work posting, said Jen St. Pierre. That is the businesses language. Profession pros have known for quite a while that cautiously fitting your resume to a particular set of working responsibilities prompts more chances. Getting purchase in from customers who dont need to place work into each resume is the critical step. [Jobscan] truly turns into a backer for us as occupation mentors to show its authenticity, that were not simply causing this to up, proceeded Jen. A significant number of us have foundations in enrollment. We used to compose work postings so we know. Its one thing to tell someone, its another to send them a connect to a point by point report that shows it clearly. Its a decent approval as far as what Im attempting to state about fitting resumes, said Bob. The numbers are in that spot, said Ruth. Dislike an individual disclosing to you that. The machine is going to take a gander at your resume and this is the thing that the machine is going to see. Its goal. 3) Jobscan inspires and considers customers responsible Since the resume is scored with hard numbers and target realities, work looking for customers can construct obvious objectives around continue improvement. Lets get that number up,' Jen reveals to her customers. It gives them to a greater extent a test and an explanation. She proceeded, I can do a few rescans and theyll feel the pride of watching that number go up. As a Warriors to Work expert, Jen can investigate continues for a veterans sake through her boundless Jobscan Premium record. They dont need to pay, she said. Its previously remembered for my agreement. I love that I have boundless on the grounds that it gets me to show them and have them returned for additional. At the University of Rochesters Simon Business School, Hannah has introduced venture level Jobscan Coach represents the staff guides through Jobscan's University program. Through Coach, Hannah and different counsels can give Jobscan Premium records to understudies, communicate with them straightforwardly through Jobscan, and screen their advancement. This advances responsibility in the understudies and guarantees that everybody is utilizing the assets accessible to them. I wouldnt know what number of the understudies were utilizing [Jobscan] in the event that I didnt have the Coach stage, said Hannah. With Coach, Hannah can offer better heading to the counselors she works with. For instance, Hannah said she may tell a counselor of a dormant understudy, If theyre requesting to meet with you, I would anticipate that you should discover what number of employments theyre applying to and afterward discover why theyre not utilizing Jobscan on the grounds that its a device that were giving them for nothing and it will have any kind of effect.' I can likewise perceive how high they have had the option to get their scores in a simple visual diagram, proceeded Hannah. It shows the various scores that theyve had when theyve transferred their resume. 4) Jobscan helps work searchers comprehend candidate following frameworks (ATS) Something I see constantly with individuals that Im working with in pursuit of employment, they can't comprehend candidate following frameworks, said Hannah. Most organizations, including 98% of Fortune 500, utilize an ATS to oversee, search, and channel candidates. I think understudies truly still accept that selection representatives are taking a gander at each resume that gets through the candidate following framework, Hannah proceeded. Rather than perusing each resume, selection representatives can scan for resumes dependent on catchphrases, or permit their framework to naturally rank candidates by contrasting the resume with the set of working responsibilities. Along these lines, mentors realize that activity searchers increment their odds by moving catchphrases from the set of working responsibilities legitimately to their resume. A great many people are stunned that innovation has done this to quest for new employment and they dont very understand that a resume must be redone and focused on each and every time, said Lise. I believe that Jobscan makes it excessively basic for anyone to comprehend what theyre expected to do, closed Hannah. The Hard Skills area of the Jobscan Match Report shows precisely which abilities are absent from your resume. 5) Jobscan spares time for work searchers and mentors the same One reason I was eager to utilize Jobscan now in the year [is that] understudies are in a frantic race to attempt to secure positions, said Hannah. Therefore, they dont think they have the opportunity to alter their resume. Theyre apprehensive and dont need to pass up the chance, so they simply continue conveying the regular old resume. We realize that that is not successful, particularly since these understudies are just utilizing the candidate following framework process. Jobscan [gives] them the devices to apply to more employments all the more rapidly and be a superior match. Most of the consultants and understudy laborers who were utilizing it stated, Yeah, this is unquestionably going to spare time for the understudies and for me,' proceeded Hannah. In the event that theyve been utilizing Jobscan before they meet with me, I can take a gander at a resume that is a greatly improved form of what it ought to be and it makes it simpler for me to examine and enable the understudy to change. What we used to do before we had Jobscan is type that all out in an email, in such a case that I did it via telephone it just goes in one ear and out the other, said Jen. I would type it hard and fast: dont utilize a similar activity word, quantifiable outcomes it would take me everlastingly in light of the fact that each resume was unique. Jobscan has truly made me progressively proficient and viable in what I do. Im not setting aside the effort to type this all out in an email. I actually reorder and send them a connection. 6) Jobscan goes past ATS I truly like it not only for the ATS stuff, said Ruth. It makes individuals reframe their perspective on how theyre introducing themselves and how natural eyes would see it. Centering the resume for human perusers The way toward improving for ATS can likewise make a resume read all the more obviously for a human enrollment specialist. I generally tell individuals, you have to give [recruiters] the 3-year-old come to an obvious conclusion variant, said Ruth. On the off chance that its natural eyes taking a gander at your resume, theyre going to have somewhere in the range of 3-and 6-seconds to choose if you address their issues. Some portion of what Im doing is preparing them on the most proficient method to move toward businesses and the pursuit of employment process from an incentive perspective, said Ruth, connecting themselves to the businesses needs instead of bringing a three-page continue posting each and every activity. Its not about what they did, its about what they can accomplish for the organization. I feel that utilizing Jobscan is a great path for them to perceive how theyre seen by an individual taking a gander at the resume. LinkedIn enhancement Jobscan isnt pretty much continues. Mentors and work masters can likewise utilize Jobscan to direct their customers to an increasingly compelling LinkedIn profile. The vast majority of our understudies are not so much grasping LinkedIn, said Hannah. Im attempting to be that promoter and state, You need this instrument for the remainder of your profession. So its going to pay to begin putting resources into figuring out how to support connections and how to introduce yourself now. I feel that [LinkedIn Optimization] is a remarkable resource of Jobscan, and Im so happy that you have presented that apparatus. Jobscan lo

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