Chocolate brownies were stacked high to tempt young jobseekers from Birmingham gathered in a corporate lounge above the floodlit sweep of Premier League side Aston Villa’s stadium this month.
They went uneaten. Instead, anxious 18 to 30-year-olds in Britain’s second city queued for a free headshot to make their LinkedIn profile look slick, sought out local employers offering work experience or clustered around Microsoft staff for tips on using AI to tailor CVs and prepare for interviews.
The “AI skills festival”, run by charity Movement to Work, aimed to help just some of the almost 1mn young people not in education, employment or training in Britain compete with savvier peers in a recruitment process increasingly driven by algorithms.
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