If you manage Google Ads accounts, being “good” with AI is expected, but employers probably never checked (or didn’t know how to check) if you are. Being able to show your judgment is a career must if you can, and a risk if you can’t.

New research from CodeSignal surveyed 1,000 U.S. employees and 1,000 U.S. people managers about AI readiness, and two numbers sit side by side in the results. 72% of workers surveyed say their AI skills have never been formally evaluated, yet 69% of managers call AI ability a major or moderate factor in hiring. Indicating that employers are hiring for a skill they mostly don’t measure.

I sent CodeSignal 15 questions about how solid those numbers are and what practitioners should do about them. The written answers were more candid than I expected, including on the obvious conflict of interest of an assessment vendor concluding that nobody assesses anything.…