How Google’s AI Driven Job Search Feature Will Change Your Job Hunt
Google was one of the earliest tech companies to recognize the game-changing power of AI. Over the last few years, Google engineers have relentlessly worked on developing AI applications that would transform how the world searches for information.
Last year Google seized the attention of both recruiters and job searchers with the introduction of its innovative ‘Google for Jobs’ feature. This search function seamlessly integrates and presents results from different job sites in a single panel.
The company has tied-up with leading online job boards and social networks such as LinkedIn. With its cutting edge filters powered by AI, Google for Jobs is probably the most exhaustive and accurate search feature developed to date.
For hundreds of millions of people around the world, their job search anyway begins at Google. Google for Jobs simplifies the search process for these users by shortening the onerous process of searching multiple job sites individually. Actual job applications are still made via the job sites, but Google for Jobs makes the search process to reach that point much simpler.
AI-Powered Future of Job Search with Google
Google for Jobs is just a glimpse of a much bigger and more exciting AI-driven future of recruiting and job search that Google promises. Google recently launched its second generation TPU (Tensor Processor Unit), which is a cloud computing software and hardware system that constitutes the backbone of the company’s most far-reaching and ambitious AI technologies.
The original TPU worked as the foundation for Google’s AlphaGo AI system, providing it predictive, analytical, and decision making skills. These skills are put to use each time someone keys in a query in Google’s search engine. This original TPU was designed to work with Google’s TensorFlow, an open-source software library for machine learning.
In a short time, with Google’s advances in AI, TensorFlow has come up as a leading platform on which to develop AI software. Combined with its in-house talent from DeepMind (subsidiary of Google Brain), this technology has put Google at the forefront of the larger AI search field.
Google has recently announced that its second-gen TPU will be made available for third-party users via its cloud computing services. When recruiting companies have access to this cutting edge AI technology, it will clearly change the face of job search.
Surpassing Human Capabilities in Recruiting and Job Search
The second generation TPU will allow Google’s servers to train (or learn). This machine learning, which is the bedrock of AI research, essentially means Google’s search algorithm can perform tasks in a way that it was never programmed for.
When the algorithm knows how to learn from its past mistakes and improvise, there are potentially no limits to how far it can advance. When applied to actual recruiting and job search, the results can be transformative in the sense that a perfect candidate for a specific job description can be identified in the shortest possible time.
When Google’s AlphaGo AI technology acquires the capability to incorporate inputs such as ‘gut feeling’ and ‘intuition’ (which are till now the domain of humans), it can produce ideal recruiting and job search solutions by combining its big data expertise with natural human elements.
Interestingly, AlphaGo and Google’s AI team have already beaten the world’s best ‘Go’ players, based in China and South Korea. ‘Go’ is a game of feeling and intuition, and Google’s AI has already beaten the world’s best players in this game as just stated.
But can this AI create an amazing painting, make a fantastic recipe, or make the next incredible Transformers or Fast and Furious movie?
Let’s get this AI in a body and send it to Mars! Or in the oceans!
Enhanced Search Experience with Google for Jobs
In a typical online job search, a key hurdle is the inconsistencies that exist in job titles. For instance, what one organization may term as a Chief Digital Officer, another may call as a Digital Director. To overcome this hurdle, Google for Jobs will not only produce results for the particular term searched, but use AI to amalgamate all positions with different nomenclature but same ranking.
When all the relevant results are pulled onto a common feed, the candidate does not have to perform individual searches any longer for every possible title. The AI analysis ensures that most appropriate results are automatically pushed to the top of the search results.
More than 65 percent of job postings across the Australia do not include a salary figure. Google for Jobs provides a salary range for all job results, even if no figure has been furnished by the employer. Google AI creates an estimate based on the data relevant to the specific title, job, location, and the employer.
Clearly, as Google’s AI and machine learning continue to advance, the accuracy and scope of Google for Jobs is set to rise to a level that is difficult to imagine today.
We hope to be part of that amazing job search journey.
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Keiran Hathorn is the CEO & Founder of Big Wave Digital. A Sydney based niche Digital, Data & Technology recruitment company. Keiran leads a high performance, experienced recruitment team, assisting companies of all sizes secure the best talent.
