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How to Hire in the AI era

Employer guides to hiring in the age of AI: the AI skills to look for, how to assess candidates, the red flags to avoid, and what each role should cost, all built on the AI Career Index model.

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Hiring Guides

Hire for the part of the role AI cannot do

AI now handles the routine work in most roles, so the old hiring tests check for things a model already does for free. These guides show what matters now: the AI skills to look for, how to test for judgment rather than raw output, the warning signs that a candidate is on the wrong side of the shift, and what the version of the role that holds its value, the one that owns decisions, should cost.

Each guide looks at the role through the same model behind the rest of the AI Career Index, so you can see which parts of the work are shrinking and which are gaining value before you write the job spec. Hire for the part of the role that holds its value, not the part a tool is about to replace.

AI skills to require

The capabilities that separate a hire who multiplies output with AI from one the tools will outpace.

How to evaluate

Interview signals and questions that test judgment and ownership, not the output AI now produces for free.

Red flags

The warning signs that a candidate is on the wrong side of the AI shift.

What it costs

The salary to budget for the part of the role that holds its value and owns decisions, by market.

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"Most career tools focus on what you want. This one focused on where the market and pay are actually moving. That change in view was worth more than a year of coaching. My next move is the first one I have made with real data behind it."

Freya Andersen
UX Research Lead · Copenhagen, Denmark

"I expected generic advice about learning AI tools. Instead I got a clear read on which parts of my job AI can take over and which it cannot. The plan had me moving toward design and architecture work within a month, and I started getting pulled into conversations I had never been part of before."

Arjun Chakraborty
Senior Backend Engineer · Bengaluru, India

"What it showed about legal work matched my own view of the profession. The new part was how specific the path forward was. I am deliberately moving my work toward judgment and away from document review, and the value of my time has already gone up."

Sophie Laurent
In-House Counsel · Paris, France

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