How to Use AI in Recruiting​

The emergence of AI in recruiting is one of the largest HR trends from the past several years. However, many HR professionals may be hesitant or cautious of the idea.

While, if used incorrectly, AI can have a hurtful or even harmful impact on your hiring efforts, it can also have major benefits when used properly. 

Here is everything you need to know about how to use AI in recruiting, and the benefits it can have:​

AI in Recruiting​

The use of AI in recruiting revolves around using artificial intelligence to streamline the process. Using AI-driven automation, HR professionals and recruiters can speed up repetitive tasks while maintaining personalization and crucial, decision-making insights throughout the hiring process.

A crucial thing to keep in mind when it comes to AI in recruiting is that AI is not a replacement for human interaction during the hiring process. AI is a support tool; a sort of advisor that can help recruiters make decisions faster. 

However, the use of AI in recruiting doesn't end with speeding up processes. 

How to Use AI in Recruiting​

Here are four core ways you can use AI in the recruitment process that will HELP not harm your hiring efforts:

1. Use AI to speed up the hiring process
2. Use AI to bring more personalization to the hiring process
3. Use AI to gather more, in-depth data and insights on candidates
4. AI can help limit bias in the hiring process

Speed up the Hiring Process with AI

First and foremost, AI's most useful and accessible benefit to recruiting is the automation it brings. AI can speed up the hiring process by automating repetitive administrative tasks.

Ways AI can help speed up the hiring process include:

• Candidate Sourcing - AI can help identify best-fit candidates through job-matching and scoring capabilities, searching for skills and experiences that are "must-haves" for you.
• Candidate Screening - AI can help with initial candidate screening, gathering general information and answers before that first face-to-face interview.
• Scheduling Interviews - AI can help relieve some of the administrative burden when it comes to scheduling and coordinating interviews with candidates. 

Personalize the Recruitment Process Using AI

Using things such as automation, AI can also help personalize the recruitment process and procedures of your company. This can continue from the initial application all the way through the onboarding process, helping to deliver things such as tailored content when and where it's needed.

Ways AI can help the hiring process through personalization include:

• Job Searches - AI can help candidates gain a more personalized experience through job recommendations and dynamic content based on attributes such as their profile, search history, similar job openings, and more.
• Fill Roles Internally - AI can use the same tools to help fill roles internally as it does externally, providing personalized career paths, earning and development opportunities, mentoring, and more.
• Faster Decision-Making - AI can also help personalize the recruitment process from the recruiter's end, organizing applicants by matching skills and compatibility so that qualified applicants are found and reviewed faster. 

How to Use AI to Gain More Insight into Candidates

Nowadays, AI-driven insights are a common tool used in a variety of situations such as prospecting in sales. The same tools can be utilized to gather more information during the recruitment process. 

Ways AI can help drive more informed decisions in the hiring process include:

• Gathering Information - Data-driven insights can help gather candidate information and take some of the leg work out of researching candidates.
• Understand Candidate Intent - AI can help provide insight into the intent of candidates from actions they make take on places such as LinkedIn or your website.

How AI Can Help Avoid Bias During Recruitment

One common misconception regarding AI in recruiting is that it can lead to even more bias in the hiring process and possibly hurt your DEI efforts. 

When used correctly, AI can help eliminate bias in the recruitment process, including:

• Eliminating Unconscious Biases - AI can help eliminate unconscious bias by focusing solely on skills, qualifications, and experience.
• Creating Wider Talent Pools - Through many of the other benefits of AI, recruiters can create larger and thusly, more diverse talent pools of qualified candidates.
• Crafting Inclusive Job Descriptions - AI can help refine job postings and descriptions to ensure you are using inclusive, non-gender specific, or jargon-heavy language that may alienate certain groups of applicants.
• AI-Driven Interviews - Using AI, recruiters can set up an automated first round of interviews, either through a chat tool or video assessments, which can ensure that all candidates get the same, fair, first interview.

Get Help with Recruitment and Talent Acquisition

Businesses that are struggling to find and hire qualified talent may want to consider reaching out to an HR company for assistance. 

To learn more about how EBC HCM can help with your recruitment processes, contact us today. 

Or, check out our powerful recruitment software as well as our recruitment services, part of our comprehensive HR services. However you want to tackle your hiring challenges, we've got you covered.