Estefania Angel noticed that while her company helped other enterprises set up AI, it did not use those systems internally. She began using AI apps in Slack, Outlook, and Google to track assignments, which garnered attention from her superiors.
The 2026 Agent Migration Report found that while agent turnover remained relatively stable in 2025, a firm's greatest challenge to capturing high-value agents on the move is the inability of a human recruiter to maintain consistent and personalized contact with the prospective agents over a long-period of time.
Chimka also notes that these tools were designed to cater to small business leaders-whose survey feedback to LinkedIn reinforced a common theme, echoed by many owners, that finding skilled talent remains challenging. This source of frustration is more of a problem of perception, rather than a lack of skills, he says. Applicants seeking to pivot into a new industry, for example, may not have the obvious qualifications companies are looking for, but that doesn't mean they can't do the job. LinkedIn Hiring's AI aims to give these candidates a fair shot by making the process more "skills based," he said.
She learned that experts across fields-from physics and finance to healthcare and law-were now being paid to help train AI models to think, reason, and problem-solve like domain specialists. She applied, was accepted, and now logs about 50 hours a week providing data for Mercor, a platform that connects AI labs with domain experts. Ruane is part of a fast-growing cohort of professionals who are shaping how AI models learn.
