Survey: 90% of U.S. Firms Seek Workers with ChatGPT Experience

The ChatGPT and generative AI revolution has reached company recruitment.

According to a survey from Resume Builder, over 90% of U.S. companies said they are seeking workers with ChatGPT experience.

The reasons why:

Also, 66% of business leaders who said they were hiring employees with ChatGPT experience believe this skilled workforce will “very likely” or “somewhat likely” give their companies a competitive edge.

The areas where ChatGPT-experienced workers are urgently needed are software engineering (58%), customer service (33%), HR (32%) and marketing (31%).

Companies know that these skills are scarce for now, and thus they are willing to pay top dollar to get these employees.

The survey said nearly a third of companies are hiring prompt engineers – an employee who develops, refines and optimizes text prompts for generative AI services. Among these hiring companies, one in four believe salaries will exceed $200,000 a year.

Three-quarters of companies also said that hiring of prompt engineers will “very likely” or “somewhat likely” lead to job cuts.

Prompt engineering is one of the hottest new tech jobs driven by the generative AI craze. There are various free and paid prompt engineering courses, such as one from OpenAI and DeepLearning.AI, as well as from Udemy, The University of Texas at Austin’s Executive Education program, and others.

Resume Builder commissioned a survey of 1,000 participants in the U.S. who are either a C-level executive, owner or partner at companies with more than 10 employees. The online survey was conducted on April 5.