Jobseekers in the Age of AI: Views from the Workwise Team

Our team at Workwise shared its views with Khaosod for the article “What do jobseekers need in the age of AI? Knowing how to use it may not be enough”, published on 19 October 2026. We see both what employers ask for and how candidates prepare, so this article sets out our view in more detail, with links to the original articles at the end.

AI skills are now part of the brief in many fields

In the job requirements clients send us when they ask for help with recruitment, AI skills appear more and more often. They are no longer limited to technology roles. We also see them in marketing, sales, human resources and some office-based roles. For jobseekers, this means familiarity with these tools is becoming something employers already expect, rather than something that makes you stand out.

Being able to use AI is not the same as being able to do the job

“AI can analyse data or suggest answers very quickly, but ultimately someone still has to check whether those answers actually work.” The Workwise team

An HR team may use AI to draft a job advertisement in minutes, but someone still has to check that the requirements match the real job. A sales team may ask AI to summarise its whole client list, but only someone who knows the business can say which client to call first. What employers look for goes beyond knowing the tools.

Judgement when checking results. AI answers quickly and sounds convincing, but it can be wrong. Employers trust people who know where to check and are willing to say an answer is not good enough yet.

Depth in your own field. People who know the work ask the right questions and can see which result fits the business.

Communication and working with people. Explaining, negotiating and bringing a team along is still work for people.

Readiness to learn as tools change. Today's tools may not be next year's. People who adapt have the advantage over people who simply know the most tools.

Ownership of results. However much AI helps, the person who hands in the work is responsible for what it delivers.

Experience is more than years on the job

When an employer asks for three years of experience, it is not only asking whether you have worked that long. It wants to know what problems you faced in those three years, what you were responsible for, and what you can now decide on your own.

Your CV and your interview answers should address those three questions, not only list time served and the software you can use.

Fresh graduates and people early in their careers

Companies have not stopped hiring fresh graduates, but expectations of people starting out are changing. As tools speed up routine tasks, employers may expect new hires to learn faster and take on more complex work sooner.

For candidates: if you do not yet have full-time experience, use internships, projects or activities related to the role to show how you think and solve problems. Once you start work, use the job itself to learn and ask for more responsibility, rather than relying on the tools alone.

For organisations: routine tasks used to be where new employees learned procedures, practised problem-solving and learned from mistakes. If AI now takes on that work, plan where the next generation will gain that experience, and have experienced colleagues explain the reasoning behind important decisions.

CVs written entirely by AI tend to sound the same

AI can polish your language, but a CV written entirely by AI tends to fall back on the same broad phrases, without numbers or real examples. Use AI if it helps, but keep the content grounded in your real work, include results that can be measured, and show the decisions you made yourself.

Preparing for interviews in the age of AI

Prepare one or two real examples of using AI at work. Be ready to explain what you used it for, how you checked the output, and which parts you changed yourself.

Answer from your own experience. Interviewers can usually tell the difference between an answer prepared with a tool and one that comes from work you actually did.

Ask how the team uses AI. It shows you how the organisation works, and shows that you are already thinking about the job itself.

For employers: assessing candidates when everyone uses AI

When CVs all look equally polished, interviews that ask candidates to walk through real work, or to think through a short problem close to the job, show judgement and thinking more clearly than documents alone.

A better question to ask

Instead of asking only whether AI will take your job, ask which parts of the job companies still need people to do, and build your skills in that direction.

Read the original articles

The original articles our team contributed to also draw on analysis by the IMF and research from the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. You can read them in full here:

• Khaosod English: What do jobseekers need in the age of AI? Knowing how to use it may not be enough
• Khaosod (Thai): ยุค AI คนหางานต้องมีอะไรบ้าง? แค่ใช้ AI เป็นอาจไม่พอ

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