What’s your recruitment experience in Mongolia? After how long have you been hired by an organization? As a millennial, I have quite few experiences of being hired into an organization. But the recent experience was the fastest one in my entire career history.
Two weeks ago, I have seen an advertisement of an English Writer on Lambda Global. As a full time mother, I was interested in remote writing job, which will allow me to spend more time with my children. Consequently, I have applied for the job the next day. Two days later I have received an email from the CEO and founder of the Lambda Global, congratulating me for passing the first screening. The final stage was to send a 800-1200 word article by Sunday strictly written by myself, without any AI assistance. I have sent my article within the given deadline. I was assuming that the CEO or the other team members of Lambda Global will read my article on Monday, and I will hear back from them by Tuesday at the earliest. To my big surprise I have received the results after two hours on the same day. It was not only the results, but it contained all the necessary information to start my work immediately. By Friday the same week I have already received my first payment. For someone, who was expecting the response at least two days after the test article submission, it felt super quick. This whole experience of gig work is new to me and certainly it gave me an idea of a future work. Lambda Global is a start-up business, hence everything is swift and different from the traditional organizations that I have worked.
In the future, I think not only start-ups, but with the further development of an AI and the new generation’s demand the most organizations will be similar to today’s start-ups.
Hiring trend
I have experience of being recruited in a big and small organizations with international and national management. Depending on the urgency of the position, the entire process usually took at least 2-3 weeks. That will not be the case in the near future. It will not be surprising, if someone applies for a job and starts the work next day. AI involvement in the recruitment process will speed up the process significantly. Lengthy processes of an interview, exam, negotiation and signing of a contract will be much shorter. After I was selected as an English writer, the Lambda Global’s CEO shared a spreadsheet with me. The spreadsheet contained all the other writer’s payment and deliveries. At first, I thought he had sent it mistakenly. It turned out it was not. Everything is transparent at Lambda Global. I could see, who has what payment scale, based on what delivery. It made everything clear, no guessing and confusion. Lambda Global is promoting exactly this to other organizations – to be transparent on the salary. I could see how much time it saves for both the company and the contractor. You have a clear task, this is what we pay for the task, this is what others get, if you agree come and join.
Automated emails and the system
I have received an email from the CEO and founder of the Lambda Global, Bayarsaikhan Volodya. Somehow, it felt like an AI email. I presume the CEO does not intend to hide AI assistance, on contrary he is embracing the AI. Lambda Global is developing an AI driven system to enhance the human resources efficiency and to shape fair labor ecosystem in Mongolia. Consequently, from the recruitment process I could sense some involvement of an AI. In the future, the new generation might receive clear and concise emails from an AI. Email exchanges might look and feel very different from the traditional ones. That made me to question, whether the communication skill will be crucial as it is today. Computer to computer interaction seemed to require minimal communication skill, especially the oral communications. Today, I am performing my task not interacting with anyone. I have received one email with clear instruction and expectation. That was it. I do not have to deal with an accountant or any other personnel.
Full time office work
Current gig work is perfect for me. I can spend my time with my children and manage my time. Plus, I get paid every week. How convenient is that! I could completely understand why Gen Z reluctant to have full time office work, where you get paid twice a month. In the future, I think full time office works will be largely replaced by an output based remote jobs. Most organizations will hire highly skilled contractors, who will perform tasks with a clear goal. There will be no so-called “bull-shit” jobs that fills an office desk.
My current work as an English Writer at Lambda Global could be an expectational case today, but this is what the new generation is attracted to. Start-ups such as the Lambda Global is already defining new practices of future work. The “future work” , that experts widely discuss, is already unfolding around us.