I’ve been encouraging people on my team to use AI to help them with their jobs.

Yesterday Joven (who has been with me since 2005) made a post about how he’s using it.

At OnlineJobs.ph we have Filipino jobseekers rate their skills.
They get to select those skills from a list, or they can suggest skills that we should add.

Our list of skills is huge. And there are some crazy skills:

SAP ERP
Helium10
Stable Diffusion
Ansible & Vagrant

(dang! these are some highly skilled people!)

Do I know what these are?  No.

Does Joven know what these are? No.

But part of his job is to put these into appropriate categories when they’ve been suggested by more than one jobseeker.  How does he do it without even knowing what they are?

AI

He asked Deepseek to help put these into categories. He gave it a list of the skills/categories we currently have and Deepseek told him the appropriate places to put the new skills.

He said it did it perfectly.

Then he asked it to help him de-duplicate some skills that are listed in multiple categories.
Skills like
– bookkeeping
– payroll
– google analytics
– financial forecasting
– credit repair
– CRM

It gave him reasoning why they should be in one category rather than another.

Joven then used his brain to decide if the AI was correct or not and he got this task done.

Is AI replacing Joven here? No.
Is AI making Joven smarter? More effective at his job?  Yes.

What’s awesome for me is I didn’t have to think about any of this. Joven just got it done for me.

If you hire an OFS (or a “Virtual Assistant”) what could they do for you?

John