'AI can use data to look at the candidate's skills, background, and experience to determine how successful they will be in a role before hiring them,' she added. 'Depending on the quality of data that the recruitment team has, AI can even carry out activity that usually requires human intelligence, such as predicting a candidate's success ahead of hiring and even how they may fit culturally in an organization,' she said. 'By matching the skills and experience on the supply side with business/client demands, recruiters will be able to more quickly review/assess the suitability of the individual to a role,' she said.ĪI technologies, Maynard said, have the power to improve efficiencies within recruitment departments as well. For example, she told BI, AI helps recruiters leverage big data to get through tasks such as 'analyzing CVs and job applications,' as well as 'sourcing and screening candidates' quicker. Lindsey Zuloaga, the chief data scientist at the AI-based hiring company HireVue, told BI that clients have used her company's AI-powered tools, such as chat-based job matching, to 'automate mundane tasks and improve fairness in their processes.'Īpplying AI technologies to the recruitment process may also 'redefine how organizations source talent and how HR teams operate,' Pamela Maynard, the CEO of the IT consulting firm Avanade, said. The future of recruitment can be more streamlined and automated with AI, experts sayįrom sourcing talent to answering standard candidate questions, some experts believe AI tools could make the hiring process better and faster. They predicted the tools would make the hiring process faster for HR workers and could even prove valuable to job seekers.

Tech leaders and scholars told Business Insider that HR and recruitment teams were increasingly using AI tools at multiple stages of the hiring process - from reviewing résumés to short-listing candidates - while developing ethical parameters to temper the risks and biases of AI. This story is available exclusively to Business InsiderĪnd start reading now. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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