Attracting the right employees can be tough for businesses nowadays, especially when talent can be scares in certain professions. The recruitment game is ever-changing, making it more important than ever to be up-to-date with the latest strategies and innovations. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is helping to simplify the entire process, as we explain in this blog post.
Today, everyone talks about AI and its potential to become the future of how we do business. The reason this is so sought-after is because it has the capability to learn more. It does this by remembering a date set, such as a series of decisions based on specific activities. It reflects on this by making similar decisions with future activity, making it useful if your company is looking for a specific candidate type (with regards to office culture, as well as ability).
While each day is different for recruitment, there are still some repetitive and sometimes tedious tasks that require regular attention. These include role advertising, finding and identifying professionals that fit your company ethos and screening and inviting candidates. AI comes to help, with regards to these, since it cuts out a lot of the manual work. Therefore, you can focus your efforts on other important efforts.
Recruiters begun taking the integration of AI to the applicant tracking system (ATS) into consideration more in 2018. Along with its time-saving capabilities, and effectiveness in a high-volume environment, the automated screening software learns how well the candidate fits into your company ethos as well as the role – based on previous searches and hiring decisions. The technology automatically builds a list of suitable matches, on the basis of this, meaning you can focus your time on other human resources tasks accordingly.
Artificial intelligence is also useful when it comes to candidate engagement. This is even more important during the pre-applications process, where nowadays candidates have a lot more inquiries than used to be the case. This is where live chat comes into play. Bots can be set to ask specific job requirement-related questions and also answer anything related to the role specification, making communication easier. Gathering information from different sources, including recruiters and hiring managers’ calendars, allows the software to suggest interview times and set up agreed appointments too.
This software can also be used for screening purposes. A good example of this would be using it to monitor candidates’ social media profiles and flagging both positive and negative activities that might be of importance to the employer. This could be anything from good cause campaigns on one spectrum to anti-social comments on the other. This is useful because it allows recruiters to gather the full picture of potential new joiners.
To summarise…
AI opens up multiple opportunities when it comes to making recruitment easier. Along with being able to screen and identify candidates in the first place, the technology also allows candidates to be interviewed virtually and to show them the day-to-day challenges of the role before they accept the job offer. The way we source and hire workers is changing… while machines will never fully operate recruitment, they shall go a long way to make finding talent easier.
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