LinkedIn has added some new options for job seekers, together with job listings by completely different classes, job choice highlights, and new AI job software assistant instruments.

Which nonetheless appear counter-productive, on condition that employers in all probability need to assess a job seekers precise communication abilities, versus getting a robot-written message. However inevitably, that is the way in which that issues are headed regardless, so it in all probability is sensible for LinkedIn to include such direct.

First off, LinkedIn is rolling out “Job Collections”, which can categorize open roles into completely different sectors and settings.

As you possibly can see on this instance, Job Collections will checklist open roles in numerous sector and enterprise classes, making it simpler to seek out the job that you really want, primarily based on differing parameters.

As defined by LinkedIn:

“Job Collections lets you broaden your job choices and discover collections of related jobs throughout a wide range of industries, specialties and corporations that you could be not have in any other case been conscious of. To start out, go to the Jobs tab on LinkedIn. Search for “Discover with Job Collections” and click on on any of the collections that align together with your ardour and pursuits, together with jobs that supply distant work, good parental depart, or a concentrate on sustainability.”

It’s a useful filtering instrument, which can assist to streamline your job search primarily based on a spread of extra parameters.

Alongside the identical line, LinkedIn’s additionally including a brand new Job Preferences filter choice, which can allow you to set particular parameters and components that you just’re most excited about. Recruiters will then have the ability to see these preferences, whereas LinkedIn may also spotlight the related points on each job function exhibited to you within the app.

You possibly can see the parameters highlighted in inexperienced, including one other strategy to extra simply discover related choices in-stream.

Present choice choices at present embody: employment sort (full-time, part-time, contract, and many others.), location sort (distant, hybrid, on-site), in addition to minimal pay choice for U.S. members.

LinkedIn says that it’s going to look so as to add extra choices over time, offering extra methods to extra simply discover jobs with probably the most fascinating components.

LinkedIn will now additionally allow you to flag curiosity in a selected firm from a job advert.

This selection isn’t new as such, as you possibly can already flag curiosity in an organization on their enterprise profile web page. However having the button out there on each job will make it a extra readily accessible marker.

Lastly, LinkedIn’s additionally testing some new job seeker instruments for Premium customers, together with extra superior job search filters to focus on extra related job matches, as nicely a brand new AI-powered LinkedIn Premium expertise that can assist you assess if a specific job is an effective match for you, and even write an intro message.

As you possibly can see on this instance circulate, LinkedIn additionally now allows Premium customers to draft each job software and introductory emails by way of generative AI, which as famous, does appear slightly counter-intuitive throughout the job search course of.

However once more, you possibly can already do that in ChatGPT anyway, why not combine it direct, I assume?

These are some attention-grabbing additions, which can present extra choices for job seekers within the app. And with many extra folks trying to change roles or careers in 2024, particularly within the early months, it is sensible for LinkedIn to make this a spotlight.

You possibly can learn extra about LinkedIn’s newest job seeker updates right here.