Whether it is ChatGPT or Meta's new AI program, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is completely transforming the way we connect and develop our professional careers. What once took years to accomplish can now be done in a matter of seconds through just one chat with an online program. While there are cons to AI gaining mainstream attention, its contribution to networking cannot be understated.
1) Personalized Networking Recommendations
By now, we've all likely heard of online cookies that collect all of our data. This information is then used to personalize our advertisements and essentially show us what the computer thinks we want to see. Well, with AI, this system has been taken to a completely new level. Using a similar system, AI analyzes all of this data to provide personal networking recommendations by searching your profile, interests, likes, dislikes and past interactions. Subsequently, these programs help us find connections that are both relevant and intriguing to us.
Crossingz is one of these social networking apps that is utilizing AI software to help people find their perfect networking matches. To help avoid clutter, our app shows targeted networking connections and jobs to make your connections more meaningful, strategic and productive.
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2) Enhanced Communication
Crossingz and other media platforms such as LinkedIn are also utilizing AI chatbots to provide instant responses, suggest networking opportunities, set reminders and directly communicate with users who need advice. The futuristic process of chatbots might seem scary as we are directly talking to a literal machine - however, this new technology can actually be extremely helpful in managing users' networks, jobs and connections.
Additionally, the job market and professional networking pool can often be isolating and intimidating. It can be hard to find someone who can actually give you proper advice, and even when it is given - it is often very cliche and generalized. With AI chatbots, there is an unbiased perspective that is made to give good AND personalized advice. It is also much less intimidating to talk to a machine than to the CEO of a huge company.
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3) Predictive Analysis
This next AI tactic literally attempts to predict the future utilizing past trends and historical data. The software is useful to help people avoid future networking issues by forecasting new trends and opportunities. If you could know that your industry was going to go downhill, you could avoid a gigantic problem all together. AI would help you know that the trends are leaning towards the industry's downfall, allowing you to shift into a different industry before it is too late. With this system, the question "What will happen next?" is constantly being answered.
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4) Enhanced Privacy And Security
The rumor that AI is collecting our information to use against us is a myth. With Crossingz and AI in general, your information is utilized but not collected in the long-term. The software uses AI to create personalized networking suggestions, however, there is no other motive in Crossingz's AI softwares. Additionally, cybersecurity tools help protect networking data from hackers to ensure that all connections and communications methods remain secure and protected from malicious intent.
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5) Networking For Everyone
Crossingz is for everyone! One of the greatest perks of AI is the ability to quickly translate messages and communication to any language. This new groundbreaking facilitation of networking destroys the language barrier and makes sure anyone can use Crossingz.
Additionally, the ability to talk to people online through networking allows people regardless of disabilities and personality type differences to communicate with everyone. I am not someone who enjoys going to intense networking events where I have to talk to dozens of people back-to-back. Therefore, I heavily prefer online networking and with Crossingz and its AI system, I can network just as effectively online as I would in-person.
AI also mitigates people's personal bias, building diversity and inclusion statistics to levels unheard of. Since everything is so personalized and convenient, most unconscious and conscious biases are eliminated. This ensures fair opportunities for everyone!
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6) Ease-Of-Use
With all the fear of AI's rising control over society, its contribution to convenience cannot be denied. Rather than searching through social media finding someone to network with, Crossingz allows you to just swipe left or right. The AI software does all the behind-the-scenes work of finding the various options and you are just the final step in the equation as to whether or not these people are the perfect connections for you!
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7) Content Prioritization And Scoring
Through machine-learning algorithms, AI can determine which jobs are more important to us than others. When each job lists its information on Crossingz or Linkedin's websites, there are an abundance of different categories that we mentally prioritize in our heads to determine which is the best fit. With AI, the computer does this categorization and then organizes what we see based on those results. We will see the jobs that are most relevant to our priorities and using content scoring, AI can suggest improvement to motivate high-quality content.
As a personal content creator myself, I think AI is truly the future of content prioritization. Even just looking at TikTok's unique algorithm, we can see how certain videos are "prioritized" on the app over others due to their popularity, relevance, engagement or cultural connections. Creating one video that AI scores high in its prioritization can make or break a whole TikTok account. Consequently, in searching for jobs, AI's ability to prioritize content can save us hours of searching and make the job hunt a thousand times easier.
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8) Organization
I once met someone who told me they used AI to create a spreadsheet of all the people they had ever networked with in their 36 year career. This kind of quick and convenient organization is unprecedented in modern times and reflects the power of AI to organize our thinking. This spreadsheet had over 10,000 rows and it was organized alphabetically with everyone AI could find.
With AI and networking apps, you don't have to have scattered emails and messages with all of your various connections because AI is organizing it for you on the Crossingz app. All of your messages are in one place and if you need further organization, there are substantial amounts of AI softwares that can do it all for you and create your very own spreadsheet. This facilitates mass communication and memory like never before! AI organizing information is not just for the big companies - it is for the everyday person as well!
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9) Advanced Data Analysis
As previously discussed, AI completely transforms the way our data is analyzed in order to find the best connections and jobs for us. There are several ways but these are the most utilized:
- Pattern Recognition
- Real-Time Monitoring
- Network Performance
- Capacity Planning
- Resource Allocation
- Quality Of Service (QOS)
- What-If Analysis
- Security Policies
- Advanced Visualization
This advanced analysis of our data can then be positively manipulated to match us to potential connections. It's personalized networking taken to the extreme (in a good way)!
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10) Enhanced Social Media Insights
We've all heard the phrase social media insights several times but what does it actually mean? To put it simply, social media insights is the data obtained from social media about people. When it comes to business - this is normally about consumers. When it comes to networking and jobs - this will likely come down to what we can learn about potential connections. Through behavioral analysis, social media posts, interest identification, personalized outreach, influencer mapping and even more, AI can find out so much about a person that they might match you to a connection better than you can match yourself. Social media is one of the best ways to learn about a person and their professional lives, therefore, AI utilizing these insights to determine your "matchability" can be game-changing.
This is not to say that social media is the most accurate snapshot of a person's identity but rather a view of the identity they show people in their professional lives. Consequently, at the very least, AI can use this to determine if you match a person career-wise and industry-wise which can then be built on to create deeper friendships and overall strong networking relationships.
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Overall, networking and connecting to people will never be the same! AI is already here and as much as people are scared of it - the software is reshaping the way people can connect with others in unthinkable ways.
There is oftentimes the fear that AI might start to know us better than us and use that information in a harmful way. But, the truth is that no one can know us better than we know ourselves because that is simply impossible. Sure, AI is gaining knowledge on our data - but our data is not our identity. When networking, we normally put on a persona made of our
"data" to impress people and show them the most professionally fabricated versions of ourselves. This "professional self" is what AI is learning about us and if it can use that in a positive way - it will save us hours of effort.
Therefore, we at Crossingz, utilize AI software to show people how useful it can actually be! It saves us time, effort, money, strategy, mental health, etc. and there is no telling how this could advance in future years. Your perfect networking connections are out there and AI is the next step to unlocking them!
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