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On Point | Podcast

How AI is changing the job marketplace

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

AI is playing a larger role in the job hunting and hiring process. It helps job seekers fine-tune their resumes and cover letters, and employers winnow down applicants. But the new technology isn’t getting it all right.

Transcript

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0:00.8

Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,

0:07.4

who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.

0:10.0

Hello!

0:10.8

To him, this is the best sound in the world.

0:17.2

Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.

0:23.1

Now that's term time working.

0:24.5

Offered at Amazon.

0:26.8

Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.

0:29.0

Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.

0:29.8

Conditions apply.

0:34.0

WBUR Podcasts, Boston.

0:41.9

This is on point. I'm Megna Chakrabardi.

0:45.7

My name is Kendiana Kalan. I live in Columbus, Ohio.

0:52.3

I currently attend the Ohio State University, majoring in English on the pre-law track.

0:55.6

I'm expected to go to law school after I finish up my senior year, which is the year after this year. So that means right now, Kandiana is looking

1:01.4

for a summer job, just something easy and entry level so she can earn some extra money this summer.

1:07.9

A few weeks ago, she applied for a sales associate job at a gym called Stretch Lab,

1:13.6

and someone texted her to schedule an interview.

1:16.3

Then he sent a whole paragraph telling me that it was basically going to be an AI bot that's

1:22.1

going to interview me and make sure that I look professional and I prepare, you know, just treat it as a real interview

1:29.8

as if you're talking to a real person. Why couldn't I just have talked to a real person? I don't know.

1:35.2

Kendiana says this was her first time hearing about AI conducting interviews. But she wasn't

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