Knowing how to use AI now counts on your CV: the skill becomes a requirement, not an extra

By Hora de Noticias · July 10, 2026.

The original article is brief and offers no figures, studies or verifiable sources beyond the headline: AI is gaining ground as a skill sought by employers. With such limited material, we prefer to be honest and not inflate the point with details that aren't backed up; what we can do is place it in the context we have been documenting.

The underlying trend, however, is consistent with what we have seen sector by sector: the labor market is not rewarding 'knowing how to code' or 'knowing how to use Excel' as differentiators, but rather the ability to direct AI tools to produce results. In technology, banking, law or business administration, the pattern repeats: those who use AI to amplify their judgment gain ground; those who only carried out routine tasks that AI now automates lose it. That this skill is now appearing on generalist job boards —not just in technical postings— indicates that the demand is spreading to non-technical profiles: marketing, human resources, customer service.

Our reading is that this kind of signal, however anecdotal, confirms an accelerated reskilling of the labor market that is already underway: it's not that AI will massively replace jobs overnight, but that it is redefining what counts as the minimum competence to land any position. In the short term this is demanding and unequal —not everyone has the time, access or willingness to retrain—, and that is the real problem that should not be minimized. But in the long term, if the abundance AI promises materializes, the skill of 'using AI' should be as transitory as 'knowing how to use the internet' was twenty years ago: a toll of entry that dissolves as the technology becomes more intuitive and accessible to everyone.