'Jobot' is an online job placement service that helps people filter and find their best professional fits as well as practice their interview skills. Utilizing the robotic brain of IBM Watson in tandem with WeChat, the user has an online messaging conversation with the robot about themselves. The robot then takes the information given and finds good job matches using what it knows about the user's personality and experience.
Questions the robot may ask range from, "Are you loud or quiet" to "Do you like working with others or alone?" It then cross-references this information with that on the Internet about various companies, resulting in recommendations. Looking toward the future, this job placement service technology could also be used by employers to find a specific type of hire, utilizing Jobot as a pre-screening process to use the companies time and money more efficiently.
Virtual Job Hunters
This Robotic Job-Placement Service Uses WeChat to Find Good Employer Matches
Trend Themes
1. Robotic Job Placement - There is an opportunity to develop more sophisticated algorithms for job matching by leveraging AI technologies which could further improve the matching between job seekers and hiring organizations.
2. Wechat Integration for Recruitment Services - Integrating recruitment services with popular social media and messaging platforms offers potential to reach a greater audience and to connect with more passive job seekers.
3. Interview Preparation Technology - There is an opportunity to leverage AI technologies to provide more personalized, AI-based interview preparation services to job seekers at scale.
Industry Implications
1. Recruitment - Recruitment companies can use Jobot's technology as a pre-screening tool to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
2. Artificial Intelligence - AI companies can explore the potential of utilizing personality trait analysis to make more precise job matches for job seekers.
3. Social Media - Social media companies could build recruitment services into their platforms to expand their offerings and increase user engagement.