- As AI continues to disrupt the job market, OpenAI is launching an AI-powered jobs platform to help job seekers match with employers seeking AI-skilled talent. The OpenAI Jobs Platform will use AI to connect qualified candidates with companies. The ChatGPT creators will also offer free AI certifications through its expanded OpenAI Academy, partnering with corporate giants like Walmart and John Deere to certify 10 million Americans by 2030 to help workers adapt and pivot.
As job seekers struggle to find a career that AI isn’t actively replacing, OpenAI is rolling out an AI-powered jobs platform that aligns employers with candidates who have AI skills.
According to a company blog post, the OpenAI Jobs Platform will use AI to help qualified candidates match with companies and alleviate the job disruption that’s been caused in part by the invention of ChatGPT itself.
The blog post doesn’t confirm when the new platform will launch, but a spokesperson told TechCrunch that it could be ready by mid-2026.
“Jobs will look different, companies will have to adapt, and all of us—from shift workers to CEOs—will have to learn how to work in new ways,” OpenAI CEO of applications Fidji Simo wrote in the post released Thursday.
In addition to developing a LinkedIn rival, OpenAI is launching a new certification program to help workers build “AI fluency” and use AI more effectively in their nine-to-fives. As part of that program, it’s partnering with corporate giants like Walmart and John Deere to help workers pivot. By 2030, it hopes to certify 10 million Americans.
“At OpenAI, we can’t eliminate that disruption,” Simo added. “But what we can do is help more people become fluent in AI and connect them with companies that need their skills, to give people more economic opportunities.”
AI’s labor market shift is hitting Gen Z hard
OpenAI’s mission to help job seekers is becoming urgent for recent graduates as they face an increasingly stark reality: AI is replacing the junior roles they need to kick-start their careers. Early-career workers ages 22 to 25 in jobs most exposed to AI automation, such as software development and customer service, have seen steep relative declines in employment, according to findings in a paper from Stanford University’s Digital Economy Lab.
At the same time, CEOs have admitted they are cutting jobs en masse and replacing them with AI agents.Marc Benioff said Salesforce has cut about 4,000 customer service roles now that AI agents can handle over a million customer conversations.
“I was able to rebalance my headcount on my support,” Benioff, CEO of the $248 billion enterprise software company, recently revealed on podcast The Logan Bartlett Show. “I’ve reduced it from 9,000 heads to about 5,000 because I need less heads.”
Other tech giants have similarly shrunk their workforce because of AI. Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski told CNBC this year that his company has shrunk its workforce by about 40%, in part owing to its investments in artificial intelligence.
“The truth is, the company has shrunk from about 5,000 to now almost 3,000 employees,” he said on CNBC’s Power Lunch in May.
On the flip side, other members of OpenAI’s C-suite have expressed optimism toward Gen Z adapting to AI in the workforce.
Its CEO, Sam Altman, said that for younger people entering the job market it’s actually “the most exciting time to be starting out one’s career, maybe ever.”
“I think that [a] 25-year-old in Mumbai can probably do more than any previous 25-year-old in history could,” Altman said on an episode of the People by WTF podcast with Nikhil Kamath.
