How Recruiters Can Use Amazon's Alexa
What is Amazon's Alexa/Echo Alexa/Echo is Amazon's answer to Siri and Cortana but packaged in a beautiful format (especially in the dot). It is voice-operated and will respond to a wide range of commands.
My first interactions covered the realm of music. It allows communication with apps (called skills) and can be hooked up to Amazon Prime, Wikipedia, Audible and other services.
My first few minutes were set up and then engaging with the musical part of the Alexas skills set. Ask Alexa to play instrumental jazz or 50 Cent In Da Club and Alexa will deliver.
It is quite a revelation to say " Alexa, play Kings of Leon", and the blue rings flash and she confirms that she will shuffle songs by Kings of Leon and Use Somebody starts to play. Most of my first day with Alexa was spent engaging and playing music and ask basic questions. Only after a while, I realised just how good Alexa is and how this is a window into the future.
Hiring Alexa for business On the second day of owning Alexa on Boxing Day, I start over a couple of mince pies researching and looking into how I can use this in my day-to-day business.
This was something that I had wanted for a very, very long time. As someone who struggles with dyslexia speech software is something I am used too and having a computer that responds to my commands. So should you hire Alexa for your business? Yes. But what tasks should be on Alexa's Job description? So far for a recruitment business, I would say she can cover the following:
- Managing Calendars
- Adding items to your to-do list
- Adding items to your shopping list
- Ordering pizza
- Getting an uber
- Checking to spell
- Setting timers
- Setting alarms
- Playing music
- Reading audiobooks
- Reading your calendar
- Hooking up with IFTTT to do more stuff than I can dream about
- Read your unread emails
As you can see this is a long list already that offers up a wide range of options for someone who is thinking about using Alexa for the development of their business. Over the coming weeks, I am going to update you in more in-depth articles about how I have used Alexa for my business.
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