Existing companies have been negative about writing self-introduction letters using AI, but more and more companies are seeing new work capabilities using AI. Recently, Adobe Chief Communications Officer Stacey Martinet said in an interview with U.S. media Fortune, “We appreciate people who actually use AI, not just writing it down on their resumes.”
“AI is reorganizing the way we communicate, market and create,” Martinet said. “A talented person with both creative capabilities and AI proficiency will have a competitive advantage.” He said he prefers applicants who actively use AI in actual recruitment tasks or mini projects beyond simply writing down “AI technology available.”
Adobe is already running its own education program called Digital Academy to help applicants develop their digital, AI, and creativity capabilities.
Martinet said, “I think it’s very good if someone tells me, ‘I’ve used AI to create content for your social network service (SNS) channel,'” adding, “If a communication job applicant wrote the first draft and received a revision proposal with AI and completed it, it would be very impressive.”
He also emphasized that the door is open to job seekers who lack experience in using AI, but that AI must be used for work after joining the company. “I don’t drop you out just because I’ve never used AI, but once I join the company, I will definitely use it,” Martinet said. “AI is already changing our way of working.” “Adaptation is the key,” he said. “Successful people are those who take changing skills as an opportunity.”
“With this technology, new things are opening up that we have not yet imagined. The people who create that possibility will soon create the future,” he said. Adobe is not the only company that reflects AI utilization as a recruitment criterion. Antropics, a U.S. artificial intelligence startup, has also recently changed its policy, allowing applicants to refine their resumes and cover letters using AI. In the past, the company put forward a policy of “writing a cover letter without AI assistance,” but revised the policy in July this year in consideration of fairness and bias.
“It is a deliberate change to establish a fair evaluation system using AI,” said Jimmy Gould, Antropics’ head of human resources. “We use Claude (AI image generation software) every day and are looking for talents who can collaborate with AI.”
However, Goldman Sachs, a global investment bank, remains conservative. In an email to university students in June, the team in charge of hiring private investment academies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa stated, “We prohibit the use of external tools such as ChatGPT (Generative AI chatbot) or Google search engines during interviews.”
JENNIFER KIM
US ASIA JOURNAL
