LinkedIn adds free AI tools for job hunters and recruiters

If you’ve ever applied or thought of applying for a job via LinkedIn, you’ll know that the experience can be immediately disheartening: Openings that look interesting typically can see hundreds or thousands of applications in a matter of hours — data that LinkedIn, a social network for the world of work, proudly exposes in its own version of building up viral hype. But you may as well be throwing a penny into a giant fountain for luck to keep your application from drowning in that noise. 

Now LinkedIn has built an AI product to throw job seekers a lifeline, of sorts. A new Jobs Match tool will give its 1 billion users — who are currently applying for jobs on its platform at a rate of 9,000 applications per minute — immediate advice on whether a particular job opening is worth their time to apply. 

Alongside this, it’s launching a recruitment AI agent aimed at smaller businesses, a synthetic version of the recruitment managers and teams that larger businesses typically use to devise job applications, tap qualified candidates, and triage applications. Both are “free” to use — that is, you don’t have to be one of LinkedIn’s paying users to use it.

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