LinkedIn continues to deepen generative AI elements, this time within Recruiter, with AI-generations of messages with which HR pros can communicate with potential applicants-these tailored and personalized on the best practices for InMail.
A new flow, inside LinkedIn Recruiter, will enable candidates to quickly and easily create a message they can then send to a candidate by tapping the prompt "Draft personalized message" at the bottom of the composer.
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Using our own LinkedIn in-house generative AI model trained on successful InMails, we use information from the candidate's profile, the job description, and the recruiter's company to draft a highly personalized message that gets the conversation started.

But after you've created the generated AI InMail, then you can customize it even further by clicking through the topic elements you do or don't want to include. Then you can edit and send it-the kind that would save recruiters a little more time, while still standing for personal outreach.

Although this feels a little impersonal, perhaps perhaps that's an element that shouldn't be automated?

I suppose, when you are handling such responses at scale, it is not really personalized anyway. As with some of LinkedIn's other generative AI experiments, like AI composed feed posts, it feels like this is taking some of the human interaction out of the platform and removing the 'social' aspects out of 'social media'.

Maybe that's a naive perspective, and the time-saving is worth it for whatever philosophical ideals are being sacrificed there. But wouldn't you think at least some of this should be coming from a human, for your sake and the sake of keeping this baseline level of human connectivity within these platforms-apps? Otherwise, we're heading to a world of just bots talking to bots, and when you finally do have to meet up in person, you never know what you'll get.

I mean, theoretically, applicants could have written the application themselves via generative AI, and they could be responding to these emails with their own generative replies. And if it's a remote position, maybe you'll never even meet in person, and it'll all be just simulated engagement for simulated jobs.

A little surreal, but perhaps these tools are helpful in some circumstances, many circumstances - just feels like LinkedIn is going to be far less organic than it currently is because of this.
Irrespective, it is happening. LinkedIn says it is starting to roll out AI-powered messages in Recruiter to "a few hundred customers" in the US and Europe, then a wider rollout beginning in February.