How the AI Talent Race Is Reshaping the Tech Job Market (wsj.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/10/1444216/how-the-ai-talent-race-is-reshaping-the-tech-job-market
- Source link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-the-ai-talent-race-is-reshaping-the-tech-job-market-93df0615
Companies across healthcare, retail and utilities are increasingly seeking candidates who can integrate AI into existing roles rather than creating entirely new positions, with these skills commanding premium pay and greater job security.
The information sector leads with 36% of IT jobs in January seeking AI expertise, followed by finance and professional services firms. AI-related listings account for 1.3% of all job postings nationwide. New AI job postings surged 68% since ChatGPT's launch in late 2022 through end-2024, while tech postings overall fell 27% during the same period.
[1] https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-the-ai-talent-race-is-reshaping-the-tech-job-market-93df0615
I have an AI skill, too! (Score:2)
I can ignore paywalled links
AI answer: "would you like fries with that?" (Score:1)
So reshaping jobs yes, just not tech jobs.
Y2K all over again (Score:4, Informative)
The rush is on, get it while it's hot!
IT with AI? (Score:3)
I think it's interesting that they want IT people with AI experience, not engineers or data science people. AI is kind of it's own thing, it's not really programming, as python does a lot for you. I'm not sure if they are wrangling proprietary datasets, or just throwing a LLM chatbot into their web interface, and I doubt the people hiring for AI really know what they want, just that it's the new thing and might be beneficial
The fastest growing religion (Score:2)
My religion has grown 500% over the past decade (because my wife and I popped out a few kids and count them as part of our religion). It's easy to have impressive numbers when you start from zero.
But if you look at the other side of thenumbers in the summary, because I'm not giving clicks to AI clickbait... 64% of all employers in the tech sector don't want AI, and across the board 98.7% of employers don't want AI. Companies have had a few years now to think about it, and they just don't want it.
The next AI
AI skills (Score:5, Insightful)
What is an AI skill? Ability to phrase what you want into a sentence?
Re: (Score:2)
Technically I know how to use Torch. I probably ought to put that on my resume, even though I know it to be completely useless for anything I actually do.
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I'm adding specialties like:
Search-and-Replace
Right-Clicking ANYTHING
Super good at finding 4-leaf clovers
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You joke, but that is a skill a lot of people don't have. Getting a result you want depends on precisely how you ask the question.
Re: AI skills (Score:3)
Well yeah I guess if they had the skill they would be able to use Google for 90% off the things that AI is proposed to be good for.
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Hmm, can you give me an example of a question asked badly and then one asked correctly? Because, to my way of thinking, the person that's being asked has to play a part in understanding - it's not all up to the asker.
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Just proompts, really.
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> What is an AI skill?
As the article explained, "a large retail company, for example, posted for a data science director who could use predictive algorithms to improve store layouts; a utilities provider looked for an analyst to assess wildfire risk with machine-learning methods; and a drugmaker sought out a programmer for its computational chemistry group". And "A firm might want a cybersecurity engineer who can use AI to more accurately and efficiently evaluate potential threats".
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> Ability to phrase what you want into a sentence?
So . . . Jeopardy?