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🗞️ The role of the Chief AI Officer takes hold
🧑‍💼 Filming your layoff ... for TikTok?
💻 Layoffs hit iRobot, PayPal, Salesforce
📋 TA roles at KickStarter, Rocket Money

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For months, many worried that artificial intelligence would kill jobs. But a new report for The New York Times highlights how companies are creating new, high-paying, executive roles to help navigate and leverage the new technology.

Introducing the Chief AI Officer.
It’s a trend spreading across all industries: the Equifax credit bureau, the manufacturer Ashley Furniture and law firms such as Eversheds Sutherland have appointed AI executives over the past year. According to the Times report, 122 people with the title of chief or vice president of AI joined a forum last year on Glassdoor, up from 19 in 2022, the company said.

Is there staying power?
Some believe the role of a CAIO might be short lived. Karin Kimbrough, the chief economist at LinkedIn, told the Times that AI would also evolve from a newfangled technology to something baked into everyone’s job. “AI will be across many roles, and it will be so ingrained that the specific AI job title will start to go away,” she said.

What about everyone else’s roles?
While flashy executive titles are on the rise, the jury is still out on how AI will impact jobs on the large. According to a recent report of 750 business leaders from ResumeBuilder, 37% said the technology replaced workers in 2023. Meanwhile, 44% reported that there will be layoffs in 2024 resulting from AI efficiency, according to CNBC. On the other hand, another report this week out of Washington showed that at the local level, AI is swelling demand for government, lobbying, legal, and administrative jobs in the D.C. region.

Priority 0: Reskilling.
Regardless of whether AI will drive job numbers up or down, one thing will remain crucial: Reskilling. In late 2023, the Harvard Business Review released a now widely-cited report about reskilling in the age of AI. “Companies have a critical role to play in addressing [the challenges behind reskilling],” the authors wrote. “It’s in their best interests to get going on it in a serious way right now.”

📥 Read more in The New York Times.

NUMBERS

Numbers That’ll Make You Think

• 10,000 — The number of LinkedIn messages received by a former Cloudfare employee after she went viral from posting a video of her layoff experience on TikTok, as tech workers increasingly take to social media to share videos of their layoff conversations (NYT)

• 3 — The days per week now required for IBM executives and managers, after the firm told US-based employees to immediately comply with the in-office mandate or exit their roles (CNN)

• 99% — The percentage of TA teams who are now employing AI and automation into their workflows, according to a new survey (Yahoo Finance)

• 1.6 million — The number of people employed in the United States by Walmart, which this week announced it will add another 150 stores over the next five years in a major expansion drive for the retail giant (NYT)

LAYOFFS

Places For You To Source Fresh Talent

• Shipping chain UPS is cutting 12,000 jobs as part of a bid to save $1 billion in costs, following a disappointing sales outlook for the year (CNN)

• Roomba maker iRobot is laying off 350 people after Amazon abandoned its $1.4B bid to acquire the company (The Verge)

• Fintech company PayPal announced it will reduce its workforce by 9% (Bloomberg)

• Software giant Salesforce is laying off around 700 employees across the company (WSJ)

• Digital news startup The Messenger, which employed 300 people and launched with $50 million in funding last May, will shut down immediately (Axios)

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OPEN ROLES VIA TALENTCONNECT

Jobs You Might Want (For Yourself!)

• Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter is hiring a People Business Partner, based remote

• Health care network Oak Street Health is hiring an HR Business Partner, based in Chicago, IL

• Fintech company Rocket Money is hiring a Technical Recruiter, based remote

• Health snack company Pressed Juicery is hiring a Senior Manager for Recruitment and Employee Experience, based remote

• Staffing agency Onward Search is hiring for a Senior Recruiter and a Senior Tech Recruiter, based in Norwalk, CT

  
  For a full list of open talent acquisition roles, check out TalentConnect, a job board for TA-lent, powered by RecruitmentMarketing.com.

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

Before You Go … Other Things To Know

• Check out our recap of Talent Acquisition Week, including highlights from the keynote of talent pro Michael Goldberg, who detailed the art of blending AI with human creativity (RecruitmentMarketing.com)

• Carl Eschenbach was named as Workday’s new CEO (Unleash)

• A new report from Glassdoor found that more than half of professionals say they use ChatGPT or other AI tools while at work (Glassdoor)

• Learn the secrets to mastering TikTok for recruitment in our latest eBook (RecruitmentMarketing.com)

• Read our highlights from RippleMatch’s Kate Beckman’s session at Talent Acquisition Week, where she dives into Gen Z's work ethos (RecruitmentMarketing.com)

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