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McKinsey Hard Impact of Trend Business Strategy Workforce Planning

AI

#Recruitment #Technology #HR/Recruitment #Job Boards
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This is a strategic trend analysis case requiring candidates to assess AI's multi-dimensional impact on JobJedi's business. The case progresses from broad competitive analysis (Q1) through workforce implications (Q2-Q3) to specific AI offering recommendations (Q4), testing both conceptual thinking and quantitative skills. The math exercise (Q3) validates whether candidates can convert strategic insights into concrete headcount calculations.

Estimated Time 15 minutes
Difficulty Hard
Source PeterK
50 / 100
Our client, JobJedi, is a major job board in the Philippines that began operating in 2019 and has experienced rapid growth. Currently, the platform has over 700,000 registered job seekers and features more than 73,000 job postings from over 100 companies. Despite its success, the investors of JobJedi recognize that the job board industry is on the cusp of significant changes due to the rapid development of artificial intelligence and technologies, such as ChatGPT. They have enlisted the aid of your firm to help JobJedi assess how AI will impact their business over the next five years.

Clarifying Information

  1. JobJedi operates only in the Philippines
  2. The competitive landscape of job boards in the Philippines is crowded
  3. The Philippines’ population is 117M and unemployment rate is ~5% (2023)
  4. Some job boards have started offering AI-enabled value-add services like chatbots to screen candidates, artificial voice calls for reference-checking, etc.
  5. AI has potential to automate a lot of jobs but it can also create new jobs. 25% of current work tasks could be automated by AI in the U.S. and Europe
  6. Backed by big-tech, AI will keep its explosive growth (in 2023 Microsoft invested $10B in ChatGPT maker OpenAI; Google released ChatGPT rival AI “Bard”; etc.)