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\n AI<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0role in the hiring process<\/a>\u00a0has become a major one\u2014for better and worse. This has not been lost on universities.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n \n Most college career centers have been employing artificial intelligence created by outside vendors to help students accomplish such tasks as polishing r\u00e9sum\u00e9s and prepping for interviews. As of April, 86% of U.S. schools of higher education reported using AI when working with individual students on their job searches<\/a>, according to a survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). But Dartmouth College is taking a different approach.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n \n Dartmouth has hired a chief product officer, the only job of its kind at an Ivy League institution, to build proprietary, in-house AI tools for students and alumni seeking career assistance. The center\u2019s new AI product, in development, aims to engage with students throughout their time on campus, asking them questions regularly about their interests, skills, and desires that will, ideally, result in a targeted and successful job search when it\u2019s time to graduate.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cWe\u2019ve been delivering the same darn product forever,\u201d\u00a0says Joe Catrino, executive director of the Dartmouth Center for Career Design, referring to the usual college career office offering. That\u2019s what Kiley McEvoy, a former Google senior product manager and a Dartmouth alum, is here as chief product officer to change.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n \n This makes Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth\u2019s home, an unlikely vector in the current fights over not only the role of AI in hiring<\/a> processes (for both employers and applicants) but also the role of the tech on college campuses. Just a few months ago, undergraduates\u00a0booed commencement speakers<\/a>\u00a0who dared to bring up AI. How will students respond to an AI designed to assess their aptitudes and preferences intimately? And if this works, will college career services change forever?\n <\/p>\n \n Third-party AI tools have become commonplace among U.S. colleges\u2019 career services.\n <\/p>\n \n For example, around two summers ago, Danielle Marriner, assistant director for career services training at University of Wisconsin-Madison, began hearing \u201crumblings\u201d about how students were using AI in their career development.\u00a0\u201cWe knew students would probably be using it,\u201d she says. So the school strategized ways it \u201ccould be helpful in that conversation.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Read more on Fast Company Premium.<\/a>\n <\/p>\n \n A Fast Company Premium subscription offers readers full access to subscriber-only stories including exclusive reporting and trend analysis on technology, business innovation, future of work, and design.\n <\/p>\n