Hiring with AI
Marie Donlon | May 28, 2024As any hiring professional will attest, the search for skilled and qualified employees is a seemingly never-ending task fraught with time-wasting redundancies that include sorting through an endless pile of resumes or calling a long list of references.
Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to put an end to such redundancies as it becomes more and more sophisticated and easier for non-experts to use. The following is a rundown of those hiring tasks that can be offloaded onto AI, thereby freeing hiring professionals up to do higher value tasks.
Job advertisements
The first step in any hiring process is the advertisement detailing the available position. According to AI experts, this task is one that AI can easily take over by creating attractive copy and descriptions that could appeal to the appropriate candidates. Once created, the AI can then be used to optimize the ad for placement on the appropriate search engines and social media platforms, thereby ensuring maximum visibility of the open position.
Resume reviews
Once the advertisement has been published, it is only a matter of time — hopefully — before the resumes start piling up. Hiring professionals traditionally have had to sort through these oftentimes overwhelming piles manually to search for candidates with the most appropriate skill sets and experience. Now, AI can unburden hiring professionals of this task with the development of AI algorithms capable of scanning resumes and identifying job candidates with qualifications that match the job requirements based on keywords and other search criteria. By automating this task, recruiters can save time by rapidly eliminating unqualified candidates.
Candidate screening
Interview analysis
Predictive analytics
To further determine the so-called fitness of a job candidate, AI algorithms can also be used to analyze historical hiring data to subsequently identify patterns and make predictions about whether the candidate is likely to succeed in the advertised position.
There are even AI tools that reportedly make predictions about how long a new hire at a company might stick around once they are hired and AI tools that make predictions about how long an employee is likely to stay with a company following mergers and acquisitions.
Bias reduction
Skill-set assessment
Onboarding
This is just a sampling of what tasks AI can perform to automate certain parts of the hiring process. Check back with GlobalSpec for more on the topic of AI.