Under the new era and new background, artificial intelligence has a profound impact on people's life style and labor employment pattern. With the new changes in the job market, vocational education talents are also facing new challenges in the training mode. Starting with the connotation and characteristics of artificial intelligence, this paper expounds the opportunities and challenges brought by the development of artificial intelligence to employment, and deeply analyzes the problems existing in vocational education under the current employment situation of artificial intelligence, which are specifically manifested in three aspects: the professional setting does not match the employment situation; Talent training and employment development are not synchronized; Vocational education content and employment requirements do not fit. In order to better cultivate high-quality talents, adapt to the employment development of artificial intelligence and meet the demand of the market for talents, the countermeasures of vocational education are put forward from three aspects: educational concept and goal, educational system and educational content.