How Artificial Intelligence Reshaping the Recruitment Process

Artificial intelligence has made its place in every possible industry. There is an immense evolution in the recruitment process due to the presence of AI. Fortunately, AI for recruiting has impacted the industry for the good. 

AI has changed the way companies used to see the recruitment processes in earlier times. It benefits both the recruiter and the candidate. From filtering resumes to analysing candidates’ soft skills, AI tools have helped businesses a lot. 

Moreover, it is not beneficial for the recruiter only; the candidates have experienced positive change due to the intervention of AI in the recruitment process.

Benefits Of AI In Recruitment

AI has supported the recruitment process a lot, but there are some major benefits that one can get from AI-based recruitment.

1. Targeted Recruitment Ads (Time And Cost-Effective)

Multiple software systems allow running ads by making filters which help to get the desired candidate profiles only. Such as if you are planning to hire a fresher for London, you can set the filters accordingly, and the ad will be visible to those who meet the criteria partially or wholly as per their resumes and other data information processed by them. Moreover, it saves time by filtering out the required resumes only, which can be further processed by HR. This way the recruiter saves time and money while running a recruitment ad campaign.

2. Quality Hire

Even if you are not running an ad, and have not defined the filters.

AI has the pre-processed data of the company and the candidates. It shows the recruitment notification to relevant people and helps to hire the right candidate for the position. 

AI can judge the candidate based on their previous searches, skills, interests, experience, then it matches their overall profile with the company requirements and accordingly shares the notification to both recruiter and the candidate. If they are mutually interested in work, they further start the process. This way, HR gets the right candidate as per the AI algorithm.

3. Virtual Hiring

With the advancement of technology, remote working is the new normal, and so is remote hiring. Now companies are adopting virtual hiring processes to evade the need for physical presence during interviews that save both money and time. Due to AI-based recruitment, companies can now choose from the global talent pool and recruit based on skills and candidate potential only. 

4. Improved Communication

In the recruitment process, communication plays a key role. Many times HR delays the responses unintentionally which leads to impatience, and frustration in the candidate’s mind. Moreover, the company may lose a good candidate. 

To avoid this situation, AI can automate the responses at the time of application, reviewing, and the final decision that reduces the unnecessary burden from HR’s head which smoothes the communication and fastens the recruitment process. Apart from this, AI is helpful in cybersecurity as well. 

For example, many job portals send you notifications whenever a recruiter sees your application, starts reviewing and updating the final decision about the hiring.

5. AI-Based Games To Judge Cognitive Skills

No more manual tests are required to check the cognitive and interpersonal skills of the candidate. There are software that creates fun games to judge the candidate’s skills and helps to analyse whether the candidate is an appropriate match or not. Through such games, one can judge cognitive traits such as processing speed, planning, sequencing, ability to avoid distraction, pattern recognition, working memory, etc.

6. Development Of Recruiting Chatbots

It is similar to customer support chatbots only. Here the chatbots ask the primary screening questions from the candidate to check whether he/she is a perfect fit for the company or not.
This reduces HR’s cold calling time and it gives real-time response to the candidate that whether he/she could be selected or not. Also, prompt replies leave a positive impact on the applicant.

Important AI Tools For Recruitment

As we discussed a lot how AI helps but what means you can use to get access to all these features of AI. 

Linkedin

LinkedIn is the most authoritative and trustworthy digital platform to source candidates for the vacant positions in the company. One can post an ad, look for the best fit as per the criteria (could be defined to LinkedIn in the form of filters), perform primary screening and then further could be taken forward personally.

Beamery

A candidate relationship manager that uses AI to enable recruitment and form a talent pool. The system uses analytics and NLP (Natural Language Processing) that analyses the interaction between the candidate and the recruiter, then interpret the conversion with its machine learning and gives the conclusion whether the candidate is the best fit for the company or not. This is an interesting yet time-saving AI solution for recruitment.

Olivia

Candidate relationship managing chatbot that uses NLP and machine learning for candidate screening. It checks their interest in the job offered, comfortability with the workflow and job description. This way, candidates can be screened whether they will be the right match for the organisation or not.  

Conclusion

While concluding, we agree that AI has reshaped the recruitment process. One can expect from a basic resume filtration to primary candidate screening from machine learning. Whereas, human intervention still plays a vital role in the hiring procedure as the AI in recruitment is on the developing stage as well. Therefore, as of now, AI can not be used solely for hiring. For best recruitment experience, a combination of both artificial intelligence and HR professional is required. If you still want to know more about the cloud computing, stay updated with our recent blogs on How To’s to be more informed.