During the end of the last year, we heard about LinkedIn developing its AI-powered Hiring Assistant which is an AI agent for recruiters, available globally in English.

AI Powered Hiring Assistance – Automate Pre-screening of Job Applications

This tool utilises a proprietary large language model (LLM) specifically fine-tuned for recruiting. 

Moving ahead, this tool has the ability to personalise and automate pre-screening of job applications, flag skill mismatches and trust gaps, and be tested for risks such as hallucinations and bias, as per the earlier data.

This indicates AI’s increasing role in many workflows in enterprises and recruiters, too, are using it to speed up hiring while still making considered decisions about candidates.

LinkedIn announced Verified Skills, which allows professionals to display verified abilities on their profiles, in partnership with AI companies Descript, Lovable, Realy.app and Replit at the start of this month.

The vice president of product for LinkedIn Talent Solutions, Hari Srinivasan notes that AI is now fundamentally changing how hiring decisions are being made by giving a more nuanced view of a candidate’s skills beyond traditional markers such as degrees or school in a media interaction.

Further adding that LinkedIn’s research shows that 74% of Indian recruiters found it harder to find qualified talent over the past year.

India Becoming The Key Market For Hiring

According to Srinivasan, India is a key market for LinkedIn since it is a real-world stress-test for hiring systems at real scale. Edited excerpts.

On the question of AI’s impact on meaningfully  hiring process, Srinivasan said “AI is becoming a force multiplier in hiring because it tackles the two biggest sources of friction in this market: noise and time. That shift from keyword based hiring to evidence-based hiring is what allows recruiters to surface talent they might otherwise miss, while also giving a more nuanced picture of a candidate’s skills beyond traditional proxies like their degree or where they went to school.”

While answering the question of AI’s role, Hari Srinivasan said “AI expands opportunity when it’s built on trust, foregrounds a skills-based approach, and allows humans to stay in control of hiring decisions. That’s core to how we’re building our tools for job seekers and hirers, aligned with LinkedIn’s Responsible AI principles.

Q. As hiring becomes more data-driven, what new responsibilities do platforms like LinkedIn carry toward job seekers, not just employers? What new technical skills do you think recruiters themselves will need as AI becomes more autonomous?

Talking about the future, Hari Srinivasan noted, “as AI transforms work, building and maintaining trust has never been more important. Data can make hiring faster and more efficient, but it only works if people have confidence in who they’re interacting with and how decisions are being made. That’s why we are investing deeply in trust across our platform from real identity to verified recruiters and now to verified skills. More than 100 million members have already verified their identity on LinkedIn, helping create a network built on authenticity and real professional interactions.”

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