An African scholar has developed an AI-powered smartphone app that can save people hours spent behind a computer screen by doing their job hunting while they are asleep.
“Career Agent” is now available on the Google Play store and has been downloaded by over 10,000 people. It offers a curated list of jobs, scholarships and investors for free, but users are required to pay approximately C$31 for three months if they want access to automated AI applications, CV tools and mentorship. It uses sentiment analysis technology to select the best positions for the candidate to apply for.
It is notable that the smartphone app is only currently providing subscriptions to users in Lesotho and South Africa. When it will become more broadly available is uncertain.
The application was created by National University of Lesotho (NUL) graduate Thabo Maibi, who is currently pursuing a PhD in industrial engineering at South Africa’s Stellenbosch University. His specialties there are artificial intelligence and cancer research.
“Career Agent is like having a personal assistant who never gets tired,” he explained. “It looks at your CV, checks what kind of jobs you’re looking for, and then goes out to find them for you.”
His inspiration came from spending countless hours job hunting with no success. Maibi figured that it was time to start putting modern day technology to work to solve that problem.
One of its features enables the user to get the app to structure their CV using voice commands. It was designed for people who struggle typing or have poor eyesight. It also has a tool that will assess how well a resume will perform when examined by automated screening systems.
“I built Career Agent so that even if you’re not a tech expert, you can still apply for jobs, without stress,” Maibi said in an article shared by NUL.
The African app’s development proceeds the creation of other AI-integrated job seeking applications like India’s LazyApply, JobCopilot and the American platform Sonara.
In January this year, one user on Reddit Inc (NYSE: RDDT) claimed to have secured 50 job interviews in one month through the use of an artificial intelligence bot.
Maibi attained a Master’s degree in industrial engineering from Stellenbosch last year. Data science was his primary focus. Photo credit: Thabo Maibi via LinkedIn
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