ChatGPT: Hey LinkedIn! I guess I can crack your Skill Assessment Tests

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Many companies use LinkedIn Skill Assessments to evaluate and verify the skills of job candidates. These assessments allow employers to measure a candidate’s knowledge in various areas, including technical skills, business skills, and creative skills. LinkedIn Skill Assessments are offered in a wide range of topics, such as coding languages, Microsoft Office, customer service, and leadership. Job candidates can take these assessments to showcase their skills on their LinkedIn profiles, which can help them stand out to potential employers.
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This is the result that I received from ChatGPT when I asked “Are companies using LinkedIn Skill Assessment for filtering their candidates?” We might notice that many organizations use LinkedIn Skill Assessment Badge as one of the criteria or as a preferred skill while posting a Job. But, in this age of Generative PreTrained Transformers (GPT), the value of skill assessments like the LinkedIn Skill Assessment might lose because the above-mentioned ChatGPT itself will help us to clear LinkedIn’s Skill Assessment with no effort. Sounds interesting and a bit unethical, right?

Recently, I read an article about ChatGPT passing the AWS Solutions Architect practice exam. During that time I wondered that if this is true then LinkedIn Skill Assessment might be also at risk! Because 1 minute and 30 seconds are more than enough for an AI tool like ChatGPT to figure out the answers to the questions put together by LinkedIn.

The objective that I had in mind while writing this article is to make others also aware that LinkedIn Skill Assessment can be easily cracked with the help of some AI tools till LinkedIn finds out some other advanced assessment criteria. I’ve tested this with the help of a couple of tools. Given below are 2 tools/extensions that can be used to crack LinkedIn assessment tests:

1. An Image to text conversion extension
2. ChatGPT

With these tools, anyone can easily copy questions (as normal copying is not allowed) and paste this into ChatGPT. Simple! Given below is a sample video gif that shows how I tested cracking the LinkedIn Skill assessment using ChatGPT and Image-Text conversion tool.

So, I guess it’s time for the LinkedIn Assessment team to work really hard on hardening their Skill assessment criteria. They may need to go with some advanced tech to avoid scenarios like this.

Funny fact is that these are the results that I received when I asked ChatGPT itself for the methods to avoid these kinds of exploits:

1. Use proctoring software
2. Randomize questions and answer choices
3. Time limits
4. Plagiarism detection

Out of this, I was convinced by the use of proctoring software because the remaining results might already be in place for LinkedIn. I guess an AI-based proctoring service might be a good candidate to fight against this. A small AI vs AI combat.

Response from LinkedIn team when I shared this feedback:

Thanks for your feedback about our Skill Assessment and the issue ChatGPT can pose. I will send your suggestion to our product team for consideration. However, due to the large number of suggestions we receive, we can’t provide a timeline.

Hopefully, let’s wait and see how LinkedIn is going to update its skill assessment area. Until then, Happy ChatGTP-ing ! ! !