Benefits of using AI in the Recruitment process

Pranjal Ostwal
3 min readApr 21, 2021

Employees are without a doubt, one of an organization’s most important intangible assets. They contribute significantly in terms of benefits and sales. As a result, every organization aims to recruit the best talent available.

The good news is that the Human Resources Department is up to the task of digital transformation. Yeah, the recruiting process is becoming more digitized. With the advent of technology, we have come across a range of creative recruiting software that provides a variety of advantages.

The growing use of AI in recruiting is viewed as a challenge by the recruiter community, who are concerned that AI will eat their jobs and render them obsolete. But, so far, this is a myth. AI isn’t intended to take the place of recruiters; rather, it’s meant to help them speed up the hiring process.

So how will AI change recruiting?

First of all, it’s an opportunity to automate low-level tasks. Providing decision-makers with more detailed information, immediately reduce operational costs. Modern recruitment software has many benefits besides automating administrative workload. There is also more specialized software that allows employers to see how a candidate demonstrates his or her skills in practice.

Benefits of using AI for Recruitment:

Enhancing quality of hiring

HR personnel must choose the best candidates from a large pool of applicants. The entire process can be separated into many stages automatically thanks to Artificial Intelligence. Recruiters will gather more data on each applicant and thereby more accurately assess them. Many AI-based solutions exist that use special algorithms to determine candidates’ skills and experience.

Unbiased Recruitment

When it comes to finding the perfect candidate for the job, the last thing we want is for our judgment to be clouded by bias. Fortunately, there are some interesting applications of AI in recruitment that can help reduce bias. AI-powered preselection software uses predictive analytics to calculate a candidate’s likelihood to succeed in a role. This allows recruiters and hiring managers to make data-driven hiring decisions rather than decisions based on their gut feeling.

Automation saving Time

The majority of recruiters are extremely busy. The more time-consuming and boring activities that can be automated, the better. For example, using an AI-driven chatbot can eliminate a slew of these tedious tasks. Consider the following scenarios: answering (simple) candidate questions, arranging interviews, and screening applicants. Things that are unquestionably necessary and must be completed, but that can also be automated.

Targeted Hiring made easy

Artificial intelligence is by now revolutionizing the hiring process because recruiters and hiring managers are able to aim for more fit candidates than ever before. AI now lets them aim searches by job title, industry, size, household income, earnings, schooling, age, expenditure habits, and more. The disadvantage of this is that they can do this lacking every conversation with the candidate.

Upgrade candidate Experience

Let’s consider the AI-powered chatbot. It never takes a day off, so it’s still available to answer questions from candidates. Even at 12 a.m. On a Sunday afternoon, for example. As a result, it will more effectively direct candidates through the recruitment process, providing immediate responses when they need them. And this is only one example of how incorporating AI into the recruiting process will help.

On a final note

As the use of AI in recruitment becomes more commonplace, people are inventing more and more ways to make recruitment even faster, easier and fairer.

The basic idea of making better hiring decisions remains the same, only now those hiring decisions are made with the greater good — meaning the performance of the team as a whole and by extension, the entire organization — in mind. Slowly but surely, AI is finding its way into every part of the recruitment process, from sourcing through pre-selection and interviewing to reference and background checks and determining fair compensation.

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Pranjal Ostwal

Serial Entrepreneur, AI & ML Enthusiast. CEO at TagX.