The number one question asked to job candidates

LinkedIn Career Expert Andrew McCaskill joins TheStreet to explain what candidates need to be prepared for in their job interviews.

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00:00I actually predict that the number one question that recruiters are going to start asking

00:03candidates is, how are you using AI in your personal life and how are you using it at

00:07work?

00:08And you need to have a really good answer for that.

00:10But the future of work is still human, right?

00:14And so I think that the number one thing the candidates have to think about is, yes, bone

00:17up on your AI skills, start to play with AI tools, because it's going to be important.

00:21AI is here to stay.

00:22But the number one most in-demand skills on our in-demand skills list was communication

00:28followed by then we're talking about adaptability.

00:31People want to hire folks who can pivot and not panic, right?

00:36And so your people skills and those human skills are going to be really important just

00:41as much as having AI skills and playing around with AI tools.

00:45But I will say, I don't want to undersell how important AI is going to be in the future.

00:51We saw in our most recent data that 71% of executives said that they would hire someone

00:57with less experience if they had AI skills.

01:01That's a big thing to say.

01:03Less experience, but they have AI skills.

01:05I'll take the AI skills person over that person with more experience.

01:10That's really telling.

01:11And if you are thinking about how do I get those AI skills, do things like LinkedIn Learning

01:16has tons of AI courses, many of them for free that you can take and start learning that

01:21language.

01:22But there are also companies on our most recent top companies list where the companies are

01:27saying we know that AI is important.

01:29We want to give you a sort of easy entree into learning AI skills.

01:34So companies like AT&T and Verizon are doing things like having hackathons or they created

01:39their own AI tools to let employees like play around with them.

01:43And so companies are thinking, even if you don't have those skills, we're going to help

01:47you get them.

01:48And that's how important it is.

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