AI For Recruitment: How AI Is Changing Recruitment Process

Amit Gawande
CVViZ
Published in
2 min readAug 22, 2019

Recruitment technology was long due for an overhaul. Most companies or staffing companies were using recruiting software like applicant tracking software or CRM tools from the '90s. Times have changed. Candidates are no longer checking their emails on desktops but on smartphones. Or they are more instant messaging generation.

Candidates are no longer interested in visiting job board sites to search for a job. Google’s entry in the job market with “Google For Job Search” has confirmed that. Google is trying to make it easy for candidates to search for a job. If you google, FullStack Developer job, Google would show you jobs near you and so on. Google achieves this with data aggregation from various career pages and multiple integrations with different job boards.

AI also making it easy for employers and staffing companies to search for the right candidates with matchmaking algorithms. There are multiple changes happening on both sides. There are many advantages of using AI in recruitment. Let’s review how AI is changing the recruitment process.

How Is AI Helping Recruiters

Today, AI is being used to intelligently automate mundane, repetitive tasks that recruiters carry on day to day basis. Below are 3 areas where AI is playing key roles.

  1. AI For Resume Screening
  2. AI For Candidate Engagement — Recruiter Chatbot
  3. AI For Avoiding Unconscious Bias

AI For Resume Screening

With AI technologies like NLP, NLU, Machine Learning it is possible to screen resumes contextually. It means a recruiter can easily find the most suitable candidates from a lot of job applicants. Using AI for resume screening, companies can save many hours of recruiters and hiring managers time.

AI For Candidate Engagement

Recruiters need to prescreen candidates before they are considered for the shortlisting process. Recruiters phone screen candidates to know if they are really interested in the job, if they are willing to relocate if required, etc. Also, candidates generally have multiple queries regarding job openings. Like FAQs. A conversational chatbot or a recruiter chatbot can address these repetitive questions easily saving valuable time.

AI For Avoiding Unconscious Bias

We, humans, are biased. AI can help you in identifying the bias in your hiring process. For example, demographics like name, location, the gender of the candidate could fuel the biases in our minds. AI can ignore such factors and screen the candidates without biases.

Here are more details on AI For Recruitment and how it is changing the recruitment process.

AI recruiting software enabling intelligent recruitment automation that is making life easy for recruiters. Companies are either integrating their recruiting software with newer AI recruiting tools or switching to new recruiting software with AI capabilities.

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