7 ways AI can support recruitment

The recruitment industry has been blessed with hard-working individuals who are often overworked and underpaid. It’s a difficult job that requires high levels of empathy, and an even higher threshold for disappointment. Recruitment has been ready for AI relief for a long time, and today’s recruitment companies are using ChatGPT and other AI engines to assist them in the mundane task of finding the right person for the job. 

While AI will probably never be fully equipped to replace human workers in the recruitment process, it can be a helpful tool to make this job easier. Here are seven ways your recruitment company can start harnessing the power of AI: 

Refining job descriptions: Targeting the right people for the job

Developing a standardized job description is just one way that recruiters can utilize AI in their recruitment processes. By feeding information into an AI-powered recruitment platform, like the one developed by Martin van Blerk, a fitting description for the advertised job can be produced. Aiming to revolutionize the employment industry, van Blerk is the founder and CEO of Caliber, which is an AI-powered recruitment and job search platform. 

An appropriate description of the job filters out unqualified candidates, includes all roles and duties, and paints a picture of what the company will expect from the prospective worker. Using AI for this task speeds up the beginning stage of your recruitment endeavors and streamlines the onboarding of new clients as they approach you for your services.

Learning algorithms: Teaching AI human nuances

AI learns more as you use it. Inputting your requirements for human characteristics allows AI to generate a match between the personalities of candidates against the qualities required for the position. Although some refinement is needed in this process, AI is currently capable of assessing candidates based on human qualities, and filtering out those who would not suit the position based on their predispositions. 

Interview notes: Comparing candidate characteristics faster

This process completely changes the way you conduct your interviews. Your questions will be steered more towards character compatibility, and less toward qualifications. Once you’ve compiled a great list of interview questions, which is another task that AI can assist you with, you can then use AI to compare interview notes and narrow in on the most suitable candidates.  

Comparing candidates: Testing potential candidates

Now that you have narrowed down your potential candidates, AI can further assist you by creating helpful comparisons. It does this by assessing both the professional and personal requirements of the position, and testing these against each potential candidate. You can even develop a scoring system based on the strengths and weaknesses of your candidates and refine your selection process based on data that’s virtually error-free. 

Answer templates: Responding to common candidate FAQs

Those who are applying for jobs will have questions. Answering these questions takes time and mental energy, especially when the same questions are being asked over and over by different people. You can easily use AI to create answer-template emails and set them up to be automatic responses. This frees up time for recruiters to focus on the more important parts of their jobs and lets AI deal with the mundane.

Duty lists: Developing roles for candidates

In addition to the job description, a list of duties should be developed by recruiters to filter out the wrong people and appeal to the right ones. AI is adept at developing roles based on the description of what you’re looking for in the perfect employee. As it learns more about your objectives as a manager, as well as the culture of the company, AI goes to work at developing a list of roles that match the right person to the job. 

Benefits lists: Broadcasting the pros of working for your company

Whether it’s the ethical standards of your client’s company, the way they take care of their employees, or the satisfaction and passion of the job, benefits should be included in your job post. AI is a great tool for developing a list of benefits that will appeal to candidates and help provide you with a larger talent pool. 

It goes without saying that these benefits should be synchronized with your job description, list of roles and interview process. However, it’s good to know that even engines as basic as ChatGPT can take crude descriptions of your listed benefits and format them in a professional way. This takes the mental strain out of the entire process for recruiters and sets up a professional image for you, your company, or your client. 

Can AI also be used for employee retention?

Martin van Blerk has developed a dedicated recruitment platform that harnesses the power of AI and makes it available to both companies and recruitment agencies worldwide. With this technology in place, it’s only a matter of time before platforms like these are used not just for recruitment but also for employee retention. This makes the often-difficult task of finding and keeping the right person for the job an absolute breeze. 

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