Hiring the best talent is one of the most important key for any successful business but it isn’t easy. Over time, the recruitment process has become advanced. The search for good candidates has never stopped. So, to keep up the pace companies are developing and implementing various new ways to improve their hiring process.
Recruitment was considered to be solely dependent on humans but with the introduction of Artificial Intelligence, AI many of us feared to be losing out our jobs. It’s true that AI would replace many of human driven jobs but need of human supervision will still exist. In fact, AI would save a lot of our time which was spent on doing repetitive tasks which now can be used wisely in building humanly relationship with candidates. Henceforth making the whole recruitment process easier and quicker.
Artificial Intelligence can help us overcome biases to make meaningful and data driven decisions. But to eliminate recruiting or interviewing biases we need to understand or identify the biases. Biases can be of many types but one of the most problematic and common one is unconscious bias as we are not aware of it. We tend to make opinion about candidates even before interviewing them just by going through there resume. A candidate who attended a reputed college is not always the right fit. And sometimes we tend to judge a candidate by his physical appearance. His visible tattoos or scars should not be a parameter to question his job suitability. We tend to select applicants who are like minded to us. And sometime we offer a candidate just because out sixth sense or intuition approves it.
Hiring managers should work to revamp their hiring program to remove all visible and hidden bias. Artificial Intelligence has the potential to do this. AI can be used progressively in all stages of hiring that is from resume screening, candidate acquisition to employee engagement and retention.
Artificial Intelligence can help reduce the diversity gap. But there are few drawbacks to AI: It tends to mimics human behaviour. Whatever is put into it gives out similar results. A vast amount of data and information is available so AI picks up the most usual trends like it chooses men over women for tech positions, education qualification over skill set. So intensive care must be taken while writing algorithms to design your AI tool.
This doesn’t mean that AI doesn’t have any future in recruitment. It just means we need to teach AI what we don’t accept it to do. By learning AI can definitely promote diversity by reducing bias. It can help save time by responding to job applicants who fit in the set criteria and also can help resolving applicant’s queries. It can also help detect and analyse attrition patterns.
In conclusion, Artificial Intelligence can help us in lot many ways. It should be accepted and utilized positively and to be considered as something which will take our jobs. It doesn’t inhibit equality. It is easier to remove biases from AI than from humans, so ultimately it has the potential to build an equitable and diverse workplace.
In the near future, existing recruitment system would be more AI driven then now which is data driven as it will be able to find quality candidates in a blink and fill positions easily.
Pragna has been leveraging the AI technology for RPO in the recent times to eliminate bias hiring. AI has undoubtedly and seamlessly done an exemplary job at eliminating bias when it comes to recruitment processes.
Pragna’s AI enabled staffing managers and leaders to attract, retain and inspire the competent manpower which has lead to the success and growth of out Esteemed customers
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