what is the potential of AI for recruitment?

It’s likely that a major contributing factor in the positive attitude towards AI is its efficiency-boosting applications. Rather than making them obsolete, many professionals understand that AI can help them streamline repetitive tasks and develop creative ideas. In recruitment, these applications include:

Automating routine candidate interactions — like screening, interview booking and other candidate engagement measures. Thanks to the performance of today’s AI tools, these chatbots are much more capable than yesterday’s buggy and overly rigid chatbots that irritate candidates and generate negative headlines.
Creating enticing job descriptions — generative AI tools can take basic information about a position and turn them into attractive job descriptions, tailored for each audience. An application has the power to really make the difference in your talent search — according to a survey from job platform The Muse, 55% of candidates consider the job description a useful indicator of whether a job will be right for them.
Interpreting candidate applications — Modern AI tools based on large language models (LLMs) can uncover the true meaning of a text much better than standard tools, providing more accurate candidate selection and creating better matches. In this way, AI hiring tools can avoid issues with typical keyword searches that risk discounting attractive candidates who simply haven’t used the right keywords in their applications.

Recruitment is a people-focused business, and the human touch will always be necessary. However, human-AI collaboration can make human recruiters more efficient and help them make better decisions.

what’s the next step for employers?

Our surveys have shown that workers are keen to start integrating AI tools into their daily work. Now, the pressure is on employers to adapt. We have three main recommendations for companies who want to start experiencing the benefits of AI:

Work to fully understand the benefits of AI — but also become informed on the potential drawbacks, such as algorithmic bias and AI discrimination.
Develop internal AI guidelines and policies that guide the use of ethical AI in the organization and empower employees to use AI responsibly.
Ensure human oversight whenever AI is used for business purposes.

Companies that follow these recommendations will open themselves up to the creativity and productivity benefits of AI tools and build a culture of responsible, ethical AI use.

find out more the potential of AI in recruitment

To get more background on the potential impact of AI in recruitment, the attitudes of workers towards the technology and our recommendations to talent and regulators in the age of AI, click below to download our presentation, ‘the labor market and AI: something to fear or embrace?’

It’s a condensed version of our longer position paper, and aims to give you the basic facts around AI’s effect on the recruitment industry in an easily-digested package.

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