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From skills matching to mining your digital footprint, these are the most common ways your data is informing your employer.

Compared to other species, humans are very intelligent (at least according to humans). Leaving aside comparisons with other members of the animal kingdom, one thing is clear: Our intelligence has enabled us to create intelligent machines, including ingenious technologies capable of examining our own intelligence and even our wider career potential. 

An influential innovation in this area is artificial intelligence (AI), in particular machine learning algorithms, which have the capacity to detect hidden patterns in data sets and train themselves to predict a wide range of behavioral outcomes, including people’s likelihood to get hired, fired, or promoted in a given organization. 

“The future is already here, just not evenly distributed.”

Although this technology is not widely used today, it is gaining traction among employers, in particular large organizations, because they are awash with data on job seekers, employees, and managers.

Most innovations start life as niche or small-case activities, which at some point become mainstream. In that sense, it is useful to pay attention to small-scale changes and trends, because some may become part of the status quo. In the words of William Gibson, “The future is already here, just not evenly distributed.”

Here’s what you should know about how employers leverage AI to evaluate your potential …

Read the complete Fast Company article BY TOMAS CHAMORRO-PREMUZIC: https://www.fastcompany.com/90838324/ways-employers-use-ai-to-evaluate-your-career-potential

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