AI in Recruiting
AI in Recruiting
Rise of the AI Interview
AI interviews, in which a job candidate “talks with” an artificial intelligence chat bot, have been around for a couple of years but have yet to go fully mainstream. But that will soon be changing. With ChatGPT, Bard, and other AI chatbots continuing to shake up the world of recruiting, it may just be a matter of time before more companies incorporate AI interviews into their hiring processes. ResumeBuilder.com recently surveyed more than 1,000 employees who are involved in hiring processes at their workplaces to find out about their companies’ use of AI interviews. The results speak volumes about the future of AI interviews: 43% of companies already have or plan to adopt AI interviews by 2024 Two-thirds of this group believe AI interviews will increase hiring efficiency 15% say that AI will be used to make decisions on candidates without any human input More than half believe AI will eventually replace human hiring managers Benefits of the AI Interview AI interviews can save time and money. Human-led interviews can be time-consuming and expensive, especially when you need to interview a large number of candidates. AI interviews can automate the process, which can save you both time and money. AI interviews can be more objective. Human interviewers can be biased, consciously or unconsciously. This can lead to unfair hiring decisions. AI interviews, on the other hand, are designed to be objective. This means that all candidates will be evaluated on the same criteria, regardless of their race, gender, or other personal characteristics. AI interviews can provide more data. Human interviewers can only collect a limited amount of data about a candidate during an interview. AI interviews, on the other hand, can collect a much wider range of data, including the candidate's facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice. This data can be used to gain a deeper understanding of the candidate's personality and skills. Tips for Implementing AI Interview Technology AI interview technology can be a valuable tool for employers, but it's important to use it wisely. Here are some things to consider when instituting AI interview technology: Be clear about your goals. What do you hope to achieve by using AI interviews? Are you looking to save time and money, improve the objectivity of your hiring process, or gather more data about candidates? Choose the right AI interview platform. There are many different AI interview platforms available, so it's important to choose one that's right for your needs. Consider factors such as the types of questions you want to ask, the level of detail you need, and your budget. Train your AI interview platform. AI interview platforms are trained on data, so it's important to train your platform on data that's relevant to the roles you're hiring for. This will help to ensure that the platform is able to accurately assess candidates. Use AI interviews in conjunction with human interviews. AI interviews are a valuable tool, but they're not a replacement for human interviews. Human interviewers can bring a level of empathy and understanding that AI interviews can't. Use AI interviews to screen candidates and identify the top candidates, then use human interviews to make the final decision. Be aware of the risks of bias. AI interview platforms can be biased, just like human interviewers. It's important to be aware of the potential for bias and to take steps to mitigate it. This includes using a platform that has been designed to be fair and unbiased, and by monitoring the platform for any signs of bias. Of course, there are also some challenges associated with AI-based job interviews. For example, AI interviews can be impersonal and can make candidates feel like they are not being treated with respect. Additionally, AI interviews are still in their early stages of development, and there is a risk that they may not be as accurate as human interviewers. But for a lot of entry-level, uncomplicated open job listings an AI based bot interview makes sense because it can screen out (or in) potential candidates quickly without the need for a human. Overall, I believe that the benefits of AI-based job interviews outweigh the challenges. AI interviews will certainly become more and more common in the future, and that they will eventually become the norm for much of the hiring that takes place today.
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AI in Recruiting
AI Recruiting Technology
The recruiting industry is about to be revolutionized by artificial intelligence. AI is already being used to help automate the process of finding and screening candidates, and it is only going to become more widespread in the coming years. This will allow businesses to find the best possible candidates for their open positions, and it will also help reduce the time and cost of recruiting. If you’re a recruiter or hiring manager, understanding and leveraging the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can give you a competitive edge in the marketplace. AI has become increasingly important in the recruitment process, as it allows you to source candidates faster, increase applications, and improve your interviewing and hiring practices. Let’s take a look at how AI can help your business find the right candidate for the job. How AI will affect recruiting technology AI can be used to automate many of the tedious and time-consuming tasks involved in recruitment. AI algorithms can quickly scan large numbers of resumes and identify the most qualified candidates for a job opening. It can also be used to analyze social media profiles, monitor applicant responses, and even predict which applicants are likely to stay with a company long-term. Here’s what else it can do; AI can also help make the recruiting process more efficient by filtering out unqualified candidates or those who don’t meet certain criteria before they reach human recruiters. This helps reduce the amount of time spent on each potential candidate while still delivering quality results. It is important to note that AI will not replace recruiters but rather assist them in finding top talent more efficiently. AI is also being used to facilitate virtual recruiting. AI-powered chatbots can automate the process of interviewing potential candidates and providing them with further information about the job and company. Ai could also be used to set up online tests or assessments as part of the recruitment process, helping recruiters evaluate a candidate’s aptitude for the role faster and more accurately than ever before. One of the most powerful ways to use AI in recruiting is by using automated job listing analysis to identify which keywords are most likely to drive quality candidates to apply. Additionally, AI can be used to search through resumes quickly and accurately identify potential hires who would be a good fit for a given position. This eliminates time-consuming manual searches that may not yield as many results. The use of advanced algorithms to send out suggested messages when reaching out to potential candidates based on their qualifications and experience will be prevalent. This helps ensure that recruiters are targeting the right people with consistent messaging that resonates with them. Job applications conversion rates with AI By utilizing AI-powered insights into which keywords are more likely to draw applicants in based on their past job searches, you can tailor job listings so they’re more attractive and eye-catching. Additionally, targeted ads can be designed specifically for an ideal candidate for each position—resulting in an increased number of qualified applicants! AI & Sourcing Improving Your Sourcing, Interviewing & Hiring Practices with AI Automated initial screening interviews is becoming increasingly popular in finding high-quality candidates faster than traditional methods because they allow recruiters to filter out unqualified applicants quickly without having one-on-one conversations with each applicant beforehand. By using an AI chatbot or virtual assistant, companies can spend less time on manual resume reviews and more time focusing on engaging quality talent through personalized conversations based on their individual needs. In addition, machine learning algorithms are able to uncover patterns associated with success in a particular role over time—which helps managers make better informed decisions when making offers or extending invitations for second rounds of interviews. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) is essential if you want your business’s recruitment process to run smoothly while also finding quality talent that fits your organization’s needs perfectly. Automating certain aspects of sourcing, interviewing & hiring allows companies to save time and money while still ensuring they hire the best possible candidate for any given position—all while remaining compliant with ever-changing laws & regulations related to employment practices. The use of AI in recruiting technology has the potential to revolutionize how companies find and hire new talent. AI will save time for both recruiters and applicants, making it easier for employers to find qualified candidates quickly, while still ensuring that they are selecting only the most suitable individuals for open positions. With AI likely to become even more widespread in recruiting technology, the future of recruiting looks to be more efficient and cost-effective than ever before. I expect AI to seep into many of the recruiting platforms in use today. In a few years, those platforms will seem quite different than their current versions.
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AI in Recruiting
Conversational AI Recruiting vs Candidate Black Hole
Job seekers browsing company career sites these days may be interacting with recruiter chatbots. But that recruiter who’s being so helpful may actually be a conversational AI chatbot in disguise. Surprised? Don’t be. Chatbots have come a long way from just a few years ago when they were little more than text versions of those annoying telephone option trees. Today’s conversational AI recruiting software is so good they sometimes are mistaken for human recruiters. Instead of offering a multiple-choice text list of questions or help, AI chatbots converse naturally, which is why they are often referred to as conversational chatbots. Many understand language so well they can figure out the intent even when the question is ambiguously worded. Today most vendors in the space refer to it simply as ‘conversational AI’. The advances in artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP) are prompting more and more employers to incorporate AI chatbots into their recruiting programs. When deployed on a company career site, surveys show these bots enhance candidate satisfaction and improve the quality of candidates who apply. A recent survey of organizations with a recruiting AI chatbot found 71% reporting their candidates were “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with the experience. Not one reported a negative response. In fact, 50% of organizations with an AI chatbot say the most important benefit is the improved candidate experience. What makes these conversational AI recruiting bots so popular is that unlike a human recruiter, they’re ready to answer questions 24 hours a day, every day of the week. Their instant response time is a plus for candidates who might otherwise have to wait hours or days for an answer to the simplest of questions – and that’s if there’s even a way to ask a question at all. That immediacy is a panacea for candidates who sometimes refer to the job search as a black hole unable to reach anyone at the company to get more information about the role. Besides helping job candidates at the pre-application stage, these bots can schedule phone screens and interviews, gather additional information and update candidates on the status of their application, eliminating the dreaded “black hole.” That adds up to a much better candidate experience, plus can also result in a significant savings in recruiter time. When the cosmetics company L’Oreal implemented a conversational chatbot to screen, schedule and automate phone interviews, the time was cut from 45 minutes to less than five. AI bots are also highly versatile in how they interact with candidates, communicating by email, text message, and even by voice phone. Some companies are using AI chatbots to help mobile users complete a job application entirely using voice responses. So useful are AI chatbots becoming that 40% of Gen Z users consider them important for an employer to have on the company career site. Increasingly, talent acquisition leaders are discovering chatbots also offer a wealth of intelligence into candidate interests and concerns. By analyzing the questions candidates ask, AI chatbots can help develop recruitment marketing programs and give recruiting leaders insight into what most matters to the talent they want to attract. Though the majority of recruiting chatbots in use today are still the multiple-choice. decision tree type, AI bots that understand natural language are fast becoming the standard. The reasons are clear: Conversational AI recruiting chatbots improve the candidate experience, save recruiter’s time and provide the kind of analytical insights that lead to more effective talent acquisition.
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AI in Recruiting
HR Automation is the New Normal
For some time now the move to remote work (aka work from home) has been evolving as the digitization of HR takes hold in the corporate world. But the global pandemic has accelerated that trend forcing employers to adapt to the new way of work. For some this transition has been easy. For others, not so much. Covid has forced working life to change overnight, as teams become distributed resulting in schedules having to become more flexible. HR has had to adapt quickly. The new normal means that to maximize the talent pipeline and keep the employee base supported/engaged, employers need better insight into their workers’ performance. But if you ask HR professionals most say they are not succeeding in the new normal. In fact, a study by Sage People says that only 18% of leaders in HR believe they have been successful in making HR interactions more employee centric. 86% of these leaders also say that it will take 8-10 years to fully achieve that goal! Thankfully HR process automation is here to help. Apps, HR texting software, AI chatbots, and the cloud now allow you to create a more self-serve focused, digital experience for all employees. HR Automation = Speed Now that we are entering into a recovery phase, many employers are beginning to plan for a return to the office and the pace of hiring has picked up a few ticks. But, companies must remain vigilant in case of a surge in COVID-19 cases. Human resources teams are on the frontline of this new landscape and find themselves at the center of an enormous change in how employers manage the workforce. A significant part of this focus is now on the health and well being of employees in order to keep them healthy and productive. But if you have legacy systems and processes in place, they become an impediment to the speed of work. Today’s employees need fast and easy access to data and communicating with each other over distance. Furthermore, if your team can’t extract your human capital data quickly, they won’t be able to help in the transformation to better, more automated HR systems that make their working life easier. People Want Automation The acceleration of HR automation trends means that human resources leaders must quickly learn to maximize productivity for their organizations. If you are still suffering through mundane, repetitive daily tasks, you are losing ground to your competitors and limiting your organizations ability to respond quickly in a crisis. It is wasteful to have a team member approve a vacation request if HR automation software can do it for you more effectively, leaving your team free for higher priorities. HR process automation is the solution and the people want it whenever possible. Adding AI and automation to the employee experience means freeing up valuable HR time and doing more with less resources. Going back to the vacation request example, these types of transactions can be automatically approved through software as long as the employee meets the parameters set by a manager or company HR policy. Or, if you need to collect feedback from workers, automated surveys sent via HR texting software and administered and aggregated by an AI chatbot can be executed with the click of a button. Employee FAQS can and should also be automated using AI chatbots and made available by text message and on the web. A self service approach works well in these circumstances leaving your HR team freed up for more value added activity. Plus HR automation also reduces cost and avoids costly human errors that happen too often. After all, you don’t want your new hire to lose his/her onboarding paperwork when it can be handled & signed digitally. Today’s HR is all about being agile and adapting quickly to a rapidly changing environment. Yet for many, navigating the new normal is challenging if you can’t see the forest for the trees. As an HR professional, you have a tremendous opportunity to leverage the latest in AI and automated HR tools to emerge as a leader in these uncertain times. HR automation is your friend, and can make a real difference in the daily lives of your employees as well as impacting your company’s bottom line.
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How is AI used in Recruitment?
Recruiters, chances are you know a job seeker, or you were one yourself not too long ago. And thus, you know the plight of being lost in “the resume black hole.” For candidates, the application process seems to be where resumes go to die. But YOU know that an average job can receive up to 250 applications and the average Recruiter can typically carry 30-90 requisitions at a time. Multiply that out and you are overwhelmed. PLUS, you have to conduct phone screens AND service all of your hiring managers AND coordinate interviews, feedback, offers and communications AND attend way too many meetings AND handle an endless amount of phone calls and emails AND attend to compliance and administrative tasks AND prepare pipeline and activity reports AND make sure you’re hitting your metrics AND spend time sourcing, researching, networking and cold calling on positions that don’t have qualified applicants. You need help! Enter AI and automation. For all these reasons, AI has a growing presence in Recruiting because of its ability to automate repetitive high-volume tasks like sourcing, screening, scheduling, and communicating… and as an added bonus can even eliminate bias. But beware of some of the common pitfalls. SOURCING AI AI can sift through enormous volumes of data across your CRM and ATS, on external job boards and social profiles and can make decisions or recommendations on who out there might be the best fit for a short(er) list based on key words. Advantages: Saves immeasurable amounts of research hours scouring databases and the internet for qualified prospects to reach out to. It can also augment profiles to incorporate information from multiple sites including contact information – more research time saved. Eliminates bias by focusing only on job skills and competencies. Machine learning continues to improve results with Recruiter feedback. Where it can go wrong: Your AI may start out unbiased, but machine learning can begin to incorporate bias as it adjusts results to Recruiter feedback. It also doesn’t possess independent judgment to evaluate the quality of one’s content over another’s and therefore strong prospects may be overlooked if they have incomplete profiles, use different wording, lingo, acronyms or have highly transferable skills but lack specific key words. A colleague of mine once worked with a team in a Sourcing Center of Excellence where they compared the top recommended prospects from an AI sourcing tool to the top recommended prospects from a human Sourcer. Guess who found the best overall quality profiles? (Hint: the one with a pulse and the ability to make qualitative judgments). Lastly, depending on how the sourcing jobs are set up in the AI platform, Recruiters may need to refine the searches for machine learning repetitively for a single role across multiple geographies, rendering it completely inefficient. WHAT IS AI SCREENING? AI will scan applicant resumes for key words (a convenience for Recruiters) and can also pre-populate information into the online application (a convenience for candidates). It will weed out resumes that are the least key word rich compared to the job description. Advantages: This form of screening saves time for Recruiters in having to visually scan every applicant. It also eliminates bias by focusing only on job skills and competencies. Where it can go wrong: Again, the AI does not make any judgments on who might be the best fit, only who has the most matching key words. Also, if a resume has a complex layout, file type other than Word or PDF, fancy graphics, bullets, borders, lines, symbols, fonts or special characters, the AI may not be able to interpret it properly. So, strong candidates may be screened out through the automation and you’ve created a poor candidate experience. SCHEDULING AI can automate the scheduling process for phone screens and hiring manager interviews and sync with individual calendars. Advantages: Saves time and lots of back and forth trying to coordinate schedules and mutual availability via emails, phone calls and individual calendar management. Convenience creates a good experience for all and reduces time to fill. Where it can go wrong: Poor management of availability time slots. COMMUNICATION AI chatbots can automate the communication process, allowing candidates to get on demand answers about the company, the benefits, the process and their status in the process. Advantages: Can create a higher quality experience, when job seekers can get responses and answers to common questions. Text and chatbots can also automate and shorten parts of the apply process by collecting profile information up front during the Q&A session. Where it can go wrong: If poorly or incompletely configured, can be a source of frustration and waste of time contributing to a bad candidate experience. How AI can help recruiting? In a lot of ways, AI has made great improvements to the Talent Acquisition profession. Where it is able to sift through large amounts of data, keep people informed, shorten the process and provide convenience, it creates efficiencies of scale, enhances communication, removes bottlenecks and provides a higher quality experience for all parties. However, when used ineffectively or in place of necessary valuable human judgment or interaction, it can do more harm than good, resulting in inefficiencies, overlooking quality prospects, screening out quality candidates, and frustrating job seekers, recruiters and hiring managers. I’m also not sure AI can follow a “hire for attitude, train for skills” model. We’d love to hear your feedback. Drop us a note to tell us how your company is using AI and what advantages and drawbacks are you seeing.
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