How Can AI Effect Recruiting?

There are two things a recruiter is measured by, the time it takes to hire someone and the quality of that person. They are often asked to reduce costs, without compromising on their results, and the difficulty of finding the right people to fill roles is often forgotten about. This is why heads of recruitment are regularly looking for ways to make recruiting more effective, which is where artificial intelligence (AI) comes in. There are a number of ways that AI can boost the effectiveness of recruiting and hiring, some of which are detailed below.

The Impact AI Has on Recruiting and Hiring

AI Can Reduce The Time Spent Hiring Someone 

There is a lot that goes into finding the right people to join an organisation, a lot of which cannot be replaced by AI. Simply, human experience and personal judgement are needed. However, AI can help to reduce the time spent hiring someone. For example, it can reduce the time spent on the small and mundane tasks that take up a lot of a recruiter’s time. Not only does this give a recruiter less tasks to do, but it speeds up the overall time spent looking for the perfect candidate. 

With AI, a lot of the interview scheduling and application process can be automated, and CVs can be screened for keywords and skills. Instead of a recruiter spending a lot of time entering data into an ATS and looking at various CVs, AI technology can take over. This gives a recruiter more time to engage with candidates and improve their hiring experience.

AI Can Help to Find the Right Candidate

One of the biggest challenges recruiters face is finding the right candidate among a large talent pool, but AI can help. Using AI, it’s possible to search through the talent tool and find the candidates that have what a recruiter is looking for. It does this by looking for keywords, skills and information within CVs. AI can do this a lot quicker than a recruiter can, cutting down the time spent finding talent. Over time, AI begins to ‘learn’ what a recruiter is looking for and this helps to improve results. 

AI technology is especially helpful when it comes to searching through passive candidates. There are a large number of passive candidates out there, none of which are actively looking for a role, and so looking for the right person can be hugely time consuming for a recruiter. With AI, searching through all of the passive candidates becomes a lot easier, as AI technology can narrow down the potential options. Instead of having a lot of passive candidates, which can take weeks, recruiters can see talent that meets the search criteria in seconds. 

Why Recruiters and AI Must Work Together

As you can see, AI can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the recruitment process, but it does require recruiters and artificial intelligence to work together. Recently, recruiting processes and functions have evolved in a big way, and AI has played a big part in this. However, it cannot be used alone. This could result in data that is not useful, as there is no human to ensure the candidates are right in regards to company culture and personality. In order for AI to improve the recruitment processes, it needs to work alongside recruiters.