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You apply for a job you're well qualified for. You submit your resume. And then? Nothing. Not even an interview. Increasingly, job seekers wonder whether artificial intelligence (AI) rejected their applications before a human being ever saw them. Sometimes automated resume screening plays a role. But the reality is more complicated than the frightening stories circulating online. What's Actually Happening? Many employers use applicant tracking systems (ATS) to collect, organi

Almost every job seeker I talk with lately raises some version of the same worry about AI. Will employers need fewer people with my skills? Is my experience becoming less valuable? How do I compete when a language model can do some of the work I've spent years learning? Those are reasonable job search concerns. Here's a question I encourage job seekers to consider: What can you contribute that goes beyond the tasks AI can perform? Your Job Is More Than a List of Tasks Think a

Your job used to be translating strategy into action. AI just learned how to do part of that. So what’s left? For years, much of mid-level management has been built around moving information through an organization: Synthesizing information. Writing status reports. Coordinating across teams. Preparing presentations and updates. Running alignment meetings. Translating directives from senior leadership into action. AI is increasingly capable of handling parts of this work. It c