NE BUSINESS BUREAU
CHENNAI, JAN 23
Professionals in Chennai – a city that’s also famed as the ‘Detroit of Asia’ – are willing to make bold career moves this year. New research from LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, has revealed that over 9 out of 10 (94%) professionals in Chennai are considering a new job in 2024.
- 94% of professionals in Chennai are planning to switch jobs in 2024
- LinkedIn has introduced new tools to bridge the gap between professionals and recruiters
- There has been a 123% year-on-year rise in AI-skilled talent in Chennai as of November 2023
- We’ve also rolled out AI-powered coaching on LinkedIn Learning, providing customised advice and content that aligns with your career aspirations, equipping you with the skills needed for the next decade of work: Ruchee Anand, Senior Director – Talent, Learning and Engagement Solutions at LinkedIn India
There has been a 123% year-on-year rise in AI-skilled talent in Chennai as of November 2023. As AI accelerates the pace of skill-change, LinkedIn data shows that skills for jobs in India have changed by 30% since 2015. By 2030, they are expected to change by 65%, globally. Amidst these shifts, job hunting can be challenging, but professionals in Chennai are determined.
To stand apart from the crowd, 73% of professionals in the city are trying new ways to succeed in their job search. 83% are investing in personal branding by posting more content on LinkedIn, while 84% of professionals are more active in growing their professional network. They are also keen on using AI with 85% of professionals saying it can help make their job search more efficient and productive.
Addressing a select media persons, Ruchee Anand, Senior Director – Talent, Learning and Engagement Solutions at LinkedIn India, said, “Chennai’s professionals are dynamically steering their careers, increasingly focusing on personal branding, skill development, and proactive career expansion. They’re also embracing AI as a game-changer in their job search and skill acquisition. To support this, LinkedIn has rolled out Recruiter 2024 with enhanced Gen-AI capabilities to simplify hiring by using insights from a billion-member community of professionals, enabling quick identification of top candidates. We’ve also rolled out AI-powered coaching on LinkedIn Learning, providing customised advice and content that aligns with your career aspirations, equipping you with the skills needed for the next decade of work.”
To help professionals invest their energies in the right direction, LinkedIn has revealed the list of Jobs on the Rise in Chennai:
- Drone Pilot
- Content Specialist
- Human Resources Operations Specialist
- Customer Success Manager
- Site Reliability Engineer
- Cyber Security Engineer
- Tax Manager
- Legal Executive
- Talent Acquisition Associate
- Social Media Manager
LinkedIn’s tools to help professionals find the right jobs, and recruiters find the right candidates:
LinkedIn data shows that 45% of professionals in Chennai struggle to find a job that meets their criteria. To help them zero in on jobs as per their interests and preferences, LinkedIn has introduced new features, in addition to its AI-powered offerings:
- Job Collections is a collection of jobs across a variety of categories, such as clean energy, startups, and fashion that enables members to easily discover jobs that match their values and interests.
- New Preferences features enables job seekers to update their job preferences, like location type (e.g. remote, hybrid, on-site), employment type (e.g. full-time, part-time, contract), and Job Alerts to receive more relevant job recommendations.
- LinkedIn has also unlocked free LinkedIn Learning Courses such as A Career Strategist’s Guide to Getting a Job; Navigating Your Career Through Restructuring, Layoffs, and Furloughs and Recession-Proof Career Strategies to help professionals. These courses are available from 17 Jan 2024 until 1 July 2024.
With 95% of recruiters in India planning to welcome new talent this year, LinkedIn wants to help them find the right candidates and equip their workforce with skills of the future. To that end, LinkedIn has piloted new generative AI tools:
● Recruiter 2024: LinkedIn’s new AI-assisted recruiting experience makes hiring more efficient and easy so talent leaders can focus on strategic, people-centric work. Hirers can use natural language search prompts like – “I want to hire a senior growth marketing leader” – and LinkedIn’s AI models, paired with unique insights from over 1 billion professionals, 67.1 million companies and 41,000 skills on LinkedIn can infer the type of candidate the hirer is looking for and provide higher-quality candidate recommendations from a much wider pool of candidates.
● LinkedIn Learning’s AI-powered coaching: LinkedIn is testing out real-time advice in two of most in-demand skills that apply across all types of jobs: leadership and management. Learners can pose a question like: How can I delegate tasks and responsibility effectively? Instead of giving you a one-size-fits-all answer, it will ask you clarifying questions to more deeply understand your specific situation and experience and then offer advice, examples, and feedback based on hundreds of hours of content from LinkedIn Learning’s expert instructors.
