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If you are one of LinkedIn’s one billion users, the odds are that at some point in your career, you will have been flattered or irritated by a recruiter sliding into your inbox with the promise of a new job opportunity.
The professional networking platform, which claims to have 42 million users in the UK, estimates that seven people are hired every minute thanks to its platform, which is frequented by 5.7 million human resources professionals.
But the next time you are headhunted on LinkedIn, there is a good chance that a robot will be behind the message. That is because the Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is in the process of rolling out an AI-powered “hiring assistant”, which is designed to cut out the menial tasks that