The tools use generative AI to advise people whether they may be a good fit for open jobs listed on the platform and how to better tailor their profiles to stand out. The new AI features are powered by OpenAI's technology and are indicated by a sparkle emoji under job listings on LinkedIn. Clicking on it opens a chat window where a person can type queries about a job or select prewritten questions such as "Am I a good fit for this role?" Answers are provided in the form of brief bullet points sourced from scraping company profiles and other information on LinkedIn. The automated helper can also answer more specific queries about a job posting, company benefits or culture, or the industry a job is part of.

Demand for freelance coders notched the second-biggest gain, up 45.5%, followed by back-end developers, up 37.7%, the firm said. Last month, by contrast, new job postings by U.S. employers for full-time IT workers fell 12% from August to roughly 300,000, according to IT trade group CompTIA. Yet beyond cost-cutting efforts, employers say they are responding to a growing talent pool of IT freelancers with niche skills in areas like artificial intelligence, which can be tapped for specific, short-term enterprise-technology tasks. "You're looking for highly specialized skills that you wouldn't particularly want to hire for, if it weren't for a given project," said Balaji Bondili, a managing director at accounting firm Deloitte. Deloitte is a sponsor of CIO Journal.

The AI Advisory council at CompTIA is on a mission to build strategies and resources necessary for organizations to leverage AI and be more successful. To help us gauge the community's awareness and adoption of AI, we conducted a survey. Read on for an executive summary of the survey results and to find out how the AI Advisory council plans on helping the community. Awareness of AI among organizations is moderately high with nearly 4 in 10 respondents indicating moderate to a very high level of understanding. An additional 41% of the respondents claim to have an average level of understanding of AI within their organization.

A new breakdown shows that A.I. remains a highly specialized field with relatively few job openings--but that will almost certainly change in coming years. CompTIA's monthly Tech Jobs Report reveals that states with the largest tech hubs--including California, Texas, Washington, and Massachusetts--lead when it comes to A.I.-related job postings. It's true that companies don't need nearly as many machine-learning experts as, say, software developers or data scientists. Smaller organizations might not even have the budget to fill out an A.I. division. But CompTIA's job numbers keep growing month after month, indicating a sustained appetite for A.I. talent, especially among larger companies with the money to actually afford researchers and specialists.

Artificial-intelligence capabilities, like conversational AI software, can speed up the early back-and-forth emails, texts and other communications with applicants and quickly get strong candidates in front of recruiters. Other AI-enabled tools are being used to accelerate the employee onboarding process, getting new hires oriented, trained and set up with computers, business apps and corporate email accounts. The Morning Download delivers daily insights and news on business technology from the CIO Journal team. Trucking company U.S. Xpress Enterprises Inc. uses conversational AI software to handle most of the early stages of the hiring process, including text exchanges with job applicants, said Amanda Thompson, the Chattanooga, Tenn.-based business's chief people officer. When job seekers submit an application via a mobile device, the AI tool automatically replies with a series of preliminary questions, she said.

The next step in new technology adoption certainly is appealing to IT leaders and enterprise executives. They can try new and different things. Yet success with concepts such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning is less about technology and more about people. AIOps, observability, continuous intelligence, cloud and remote work require a rethinking of the IT organization, new degrees of trust in data, and dramatic changes in the workforce. This ain't plug and play.

CompTIA has launched a new artificial intelligence guide to help businesses in their decision making process. CompTIA, a nonprofit association for the information technology industry and workforce, offers guidance, answers questions and provides information to help organisations as more companies explore the viability of adding artificial intelligence into their business processes. Artificial Intelligence in Business: Top Considerations Before Implementing AI was produced by the CompTIA Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council, a group of thought leaders and innovators committed to accelerating the adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. "Artificial intelligence is already prevalent in many business processes and applications used daily, and there are almost limitless other opportunities where it can be utilised," says Annette Taber, senior vice president for industry outreach and relations at CompTIA. "However, artificial intelligence processes are complex," she says.

Technology solutions built around artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G offer the most immediate opportunities for tech firms to generate new business and revenue, according to CompTIA's third annual Top 10 Emerging Technologies report released on Wednesday. Each year, the Emerging Technology Community of CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the global technology industry, releases its list of the top emerging technologies. "Our ranking represents a consensus viewpoint that emerged after some spirited debate and discussion with the community," said Michael Haines, director of partner incentive strategy and program design for Microsoft and chair of the CompTIA Emerging Technology Community, in a press release. "We're not proposing that every solution provider and channel partner needs to immediately add these technologies to their menu of products and services," Haines added. "But these innovations will have a sweeping impact on the business of technology. Companies need to prepare now for the changes ahead."

The results are based on a survey of 1,000 full-time and part-time workers across a range of industries, including 223 employed in the tech sector, the firm said. The survey was conducted in April. Technology workers' fears could be a harbinger for the broader labor market in the aftermath of the pandemic, as tech company trends often spread across the corporate world over time, said KPMG tech-industry practice leader Tim Zanni. "Workers in the tech industry are closer to the technology and thus have a unique understanding, more so than other industries, of technology and its capabilities," said Mr. Zanni. He said workers at technology firms see emerging digital capabilities in early stages of development and are more likely to be thinking of the impact of these tools on their jobs.

A t the beginning of a new decade, these lines from the play Inherit the Wind seem as appropriate for the technology industry as they did for the debate over evolution taking place in the drama. The tech industry is faced with a tricky balancing act: continuing to drive innovative solutions while grappling with the side effects of those solutions in the global economy. The challenge itself is not unique--every industry deals with this tension as it becomes more mature--but the new variables here are the scale that tech is able to achieve and the evolutionary aspect of mixing digital and physical worlds. It's time for the industry to take the next step. There are tremendous benefits available through technology for both business and society, but there are major questions around safety, privacy, sustainability, and trust. The answers to these questions come from combining technical expertise with social awareness. By embracing responsibility for all the changes innovation can bring, the tech industry can be responsible for driving future progress. Learn how people are re-envisioning the functions, processes, and best practices for infrastructure, development, security, and data in their organizations. The IT channel is in flux. This report highlights where today's providers see opportunities and challenges, embrace new technologies, and react to new rivals. This research explores the relevance of technology to SMBs and the factors affecting perceptions, decisions, and investments in established and emerging technologies. Thanks to the vast influx of user-friendly technologies, it has become popular to say that every company is a tech company. But the ubiquity of technology does not necessarily change the underlying business model. While digital transformation is creating new avenues for growth, companies are finding that they cannot simply slap tech labels on their products and practices and automatically reap benefits. On one end of the spectrum, this takes the shape of larger companies going public and struggling with the realities of their industry.