AI in résumés begins to tilt scales in hiring

If you have 'AI engineering' in your résumé, your odds of getting hired—despite the ongoing slowdown in India's top IT services firms—are significantly higher, and so is the pay.

- Shouvik Das & Devina Sengupta

If you have 'AI engineering' in your résumé, your odds of getting hired—despite the ongoing slowdown in India's top IT services firms—are significantly higher, and so is the pay. This holds true even for non-tech roles, or when companies are hiring more for optics than necessity, simply to showcase AI capabilities in their workforce.

Data analysed by Mint from three staffing research and analysis firms—Careernet, Naukri and Xpheno—showed this singular leaning towards artificial intelligence or AI in enterprises' hunt for the right candidate. Having 'AI engineering' and related skills such as generative AI on profiles can increase the chances of getting a job by 20-80%. Salaries can also be expected to be higher by up to 13% in specific technology roles, and a whopping 64% in non-tech roles.