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As Gen Z job applicants balloon, companies are turning to AI agent recruiters

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According to some of the latest statistics, employers are swamped by job applications. In the UK alone, employers running graduate training schemes received an average of 140 applications for each job in 2024, 59 per cent more than in 2023, according to the Institute of Student Employers. And despite some trepidations amongst a few recruiters, […]

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Klarna’s CEO says it stopped hiring thanks to AI but still advertises many open positions

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Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski recently told Bloomberg TV that his company essentially stopped hiring a year ago and credited generative AI for enabling this massive workforce reduction. However, despite Siemiatkowski’s bullishness on AI, the company is not relying entirely on AI to replace human workers who leave, as open job listings — for more humans

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ElevenLabs has hired the team behind Omnivore, a reader app

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Generative AI company ElevenLabs has hired the team behind Omnivore, an open source read-it-later app. In a blog post, Omnivore co-founders Jackson Harper and Hongbu Wu said that joining ElevenLabs would give them “an even larger platform to create accessible and engaging experiences for serious readers.” “ElevenLabs is committed to the developer community and the

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LinkedIn launches its first AI agent to take on the role of job recruiters

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LinkedIn, the social platform used by the working world to connect with others in their field, hunt for jobs, and develop skills, is taking the wraps off its latest effort to build artificial intelligence tools for its users: Hiring Assistant, a new product designed to take on a wide array of recruitment tasks, from ingesting

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