OpenAI is launching an AI-powered jobs platform and certification program. I’m curious what the community thinks about its potential impact.
Do you believe its focus on AI-driven, semantic skill matching will be powerful enough to truly compete with the massive network effects of established platforms like LinkedIn and GlassDoor? Or will it perform more like a specialized feature, retaining existing OpenAI users without fundamentally disrupting the main job markets?
I would not give those platforms any credit other than obliterating the job market tbh. It’s constantly filled with ghost job postings, everybody’s looking for jobs and no one’s hiring, and because HR teams aren’t always technically savvy, many of the folks who would easily qualify for jobs don’t even get through ATSes, sometimes because of a literal typo.
It desperately needs innovation and something different tbh. I don’t even care about it being OAI or not; I just want something that works. There’s article after article (alongside personal anecdotes) that nobody is getting hired because of the state these platforms are in that they themselves created.
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Unfortunately, because the owner of this company/group decided to shut its doors, so I can’t link to an actual inference/implementation of this tool, but you can read what it did on product hunt.
It was called Sage.
Essentially, users would make a profile description of themselves (with the help of the language model embedded in the platform), and then the language model wrapper (I’m sorry, “sage”) would pull up people it would recommend collaborating with. I’m pretty sure what they did was vectorize the profile descriptions, and then the language model would use those embeddings to match other members together.
Again, this is an educated guess, but I suspect the “job platform” OpenAI is cooking would function exactly like this. And I really hope that’s the case because it’d actually be useful.
And as someone who used that tool; these language models are more than intelligent enough to match the right people together in a way that is both more efficient and more helpful for everyone. Instead of expensive and complicated HR tools, filters, etc, they can just ask ChatGPT for people. Similarly, job seekers wouldn’t have to constantly be using and sending applications, cover letters, and resume tweaks made my ChatGPT for each job posting. They can just let ChatGPT write up a detailed profile/portfolio, and they’ll be matched by the language model to the appropriate jobs without needing to apply to hundreds of posts a day.
It’s both more efficient, and frankly, necessary considering the state everything is in right now.
Totally feel you on this. Old platforms are broken — endless ghost job posts, HRs who don’t get tech, and solid candidates getting lost in ATS nonsense.
If OpenAI pulls off something like Sage, where AI builds your profile and matches you to the right jobs and collaborators without endless resumes and cover letters, that’s huge. Not just “another LinkedIn,” but a real shot at fixing the busted job market.
Curious to see if they can actually shake up the big guys or if it’ll stay a niche tool, but the potential is massive.