Helping coworkers during layoffs using AI

One practical way we may be able to help affected coworkers is by using AI tools to look through our own email for LinkedIn recruiter outreach we have received, then sending those recruiters the names and LinkedIn URLs of people we know and have worked with closely.

I have started doing this for a few teammates I can personally vouch for. It seems like a useful way to turn old recruiter traffic into warm leads quickly, especially for people whose work we know firsthand.

Similarly the Slackbot AI is great for writing LinkedIn recommendations as it has a lot of context. I tell it something like:

Draft a LinkedIn recommendation for @NAME. (Brief sentence with some good things about the person.) Search slack for @NAME to add relevant details.