Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry
November 6-12, 2023:
• Gaming gamers’ eating habits: Doritos uses AI to create “Doritos Silent” soundless crunches;
• Helping to prepare people for success: FutureFit AI launches beta of new career assistant;
• Relaunching products: Rival intros its AI-powered recruiting suite branded with its new name;
• Using an AI assistant to find your next job: Gates predicts the technology will change everything;
• Recruiting the workforce of the future: HBR explores what CEOs think it takes to hire top talent.
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Doritos Unleashes Silent Crunches
In a world where the crunch of a Dorito can measurably impact a gamer's performance, PepsiCo has decided to play the hero we never knew we needed. Introducing "Doritos Silent," the latest AI tech marvel designed to save you from the cacophony of mastication. Yes, you heard that right. After analyzing more than 5,000 crunches over six months of what I can only imagine were grueling hours of crunching, munching, and audio analyzing, PepsiCo's snack scientists have birthed software that uses AI to silence the sound of your snacking sins. Because, let's face it – the only thing worse than being fragged by a twelve-year-old in Fortnite is listening to him chomp on Doritos while he does it.
FutureFit AI Launches Beta of New Career Assistant
FutureFit AI has launched a new AI-powered career assistant called Career Copilot in beta. This intelligent career assistant is powered by generative AI and aims to connect job seekers and workers with career services, training programs, and jobs, in partnership with both government agencies and employers. The company’s goal is to offer a transformative approach to providing job seekers and workers with quality career guidance, access to skills training, and job search at a fraction of the cost. The beta version of Career Copilot is being offered to government agencies and employers. Government agencies have the opportunity to transform their workforce services provided to job seekers by offering a version of Career Copilot specific to their organization that can intake local program data, triage job seekers to the right services, and complement existing workflows to enhance staff capacity. Employers have the opportunity to transform their support for both existing employees and candidates in the hiring process by offering a version of Career Copilot specific to their company that can intake open roles, direct individuals to internal and external resources, and provide critical talent data insights.
Rival Releases First Recruiting Tool with Instant Access to Millions of Candidates
Rival, formerly SilkRoad Technology, today announced a relaunch of its recruiting product, Rival Recruit, which is now available. Rival Recruit is the first complete talent acquisition suite with more than 700M pre-loaded passive candidates powered by AI-driven insights and candidate engagement. In addition, Rival Engage, the company’s candidate engagement offering, is now available. These announcements come on the heels of SilkRoad’s inclusion in the 2023 Nucleus Research Talent Acquisition Value Matrix. Rival Recruit is an intelligent talent acquisition suite that improves recruiting performance with generative AI, recruitment marketing, communication, engagement, and analytics. It is the only talent acquisition suite to provide recruiters and hiring managers with a more accurate snapshot of the candidate market because it can recommend the top candidates from its embedded pool of more than 700M people based on the job requisition, which saves time and advertising budget.
As Bill Gates invests in personal AI, says agents will be a ‘shock wave’
In a blog post yesterday about how personal AI agents will completely change how people use computers — just a few days after OpenAI announced its “baby steps” towards agents with its Assistants API — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said that personal AI agents will be a ‘shock wave’ in the tech industry and society. “In the near future, anyone who’s online will be able to have a personal assistant powered by artificial intelligence that’s far beyond today’s technology,” he wrote. “Agents will be able to help with virtually any activity and any area of life. The ramifications for the software business and for society will be profound.” What Gates does not mention in the post is that he already has some serious skin in the personal AI game: In an interview with Bill Gates this past May during a Goldman Sachs and SV Angel event on AI, Bill Gates said the first company to develop a personal agent to disrupt SEO would have a “leg up on competitors.” “Whoever wins the personal agent, that’s the big thing, because you will never go to a search site again, you will never go to a productivity site, you’ll never go to Amazon again,” he said. By June, Gates — along with Nvidia, Microsoft, Reid Hoffman and Eric Schmidt — had invested in Inflection AI as part of an eye-popping $1.3 billion funding round. Gates had mentioned Inflection at a San Francisco event, saying that “it’s 50-50 as to whether the AI winner behind the digital agent will come from Big Tech or the startup world,” adding that he was “impressed with a couple of startups, including Inflection.”
Hiring the Workforce of the Future: What It Takes to Hire for Today—and Tomorrow
Recently, we dove into some exciting, first-party research with a simple goal: understand—from the senior-level executive perspective—what, exactly, it takes to hire for today and tomorrow. It’s a big question. And as we discovered, there’s no one answer. But that’s what makes this deep dive so exciting. One thing was clear even before we launched our study: employees want more. After the pandemic, people took a good, hard look at their work and life and tried to connect the dots. Going “back to work” couldn’t look the same as before the pandemic—or the past few decades. To excel, HR leaders need to respond—to embrace flexibility and empathy and create cultures of well-being, inclusion, and evolution. Do this, and organizations will be best positioned to attract and retain talent.
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