Over the last few decades, we’ve transitioned rapidly from collecting paper CVs and meeting with candidates in person to using online job boards, social media, and video interviews for recruitment. We’ve shifted from spreadsheets to intelligent applicant tracking systems to better manage the hiring process, and now we’ve entered the age of AI recruitment tools.
Love it or hate it, AI is here to stay. But artificial intelligence recruitment tools have proven divisive, with promises of faster hiring and reduced workloads countered by concerns about the costs — both social and financial — of using AI technology. Should your organisation embrace AI recruitment tools? Only you can say. But you can’t make an informed decision without all the information, so let’s dig into how recruiters are using AI, the benefits they’re achieving, and the challenges they face.
How AI Recruitment Tools are Used
First things first: there is no one artificial intelligence recruitment solution that manages hiring from start to finish. But as you’re evaluating new age recruitment tools, you’ll find AI is incorporated at work in every stage of the recruitment process.
- Creating job adverts: A growing number of hiring professionals are using generative AI to create or improve job postings to improve their engagement with potential candidates.
- Distributing online job postings: AI recruiting tools like multiposters or Hirematic can help distribute job adverts across the ever-increasing number of job boards, social media platforms, and websites that candidates use to search for opportunities. AI can also help optimise how budget is allocated between those channels based on their performance.
- Screening candidates: High engagement with your job posting is great, but it also increases the number of applications you need to review. Intelligent recruiting tools can help screen CVs, removing applicants who don’t meet key qualifications from the review process.
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- Conducting interviews: AI recruitment tools can help develop interview questions and, in some cases, even conduct and transcribe interviews for hiring teams to review at their convenience.
- Communicating with candidates: Chatbots and AI-generated emails can help your organisation keep applicants informed of their progress throughout the recruitment process, freeing up HR team members to focus on interviews and onboarding.
- Forecasting needs: The predictive capabilities of AI recruitment tools can’t be matched by humans. AI-powered solutions can help estimate hiring needs, budget spending, identify quality of hire, and forecast onboarding times to help your team make data-driven decisions about your recruitment strategy.
The Benefits of AI in Recruitment
You’ve probably already heard a lot about the benefits AI recruitment tools can offer — but let’s recap them quickly, just to make sure you’ve got the full picture.
- Faster hiring: AI tools streamline the hiring process while increasing applicant reach and engagement, meaning it takes less time to fill vacancies. (A valuable feature, when you consider it takes an average of 48 days for UK recruiters to fill openings.)
- Less work for recruiters: Today’s hiring teams are facing increased workloads, shrinking budgets, and a shortage of suitable candidates. Taking a few tasks off their plate can make a huge difference.
- An improved candidate experience: Now more than ever, job-seekers are considering their application experience when deciding whether or not to accept an employment offer. Improving communication with candidates and shortening the hiring process can help reduce applicant withdrawals.
- Better decision-making: Your hiring team generates massive quantities of data every day, but it can be nearly impossible to leverage the information they provide. AI recruitment tools can improve decision-making by identify trends and patterns to improve forecasting and optimise strategy.
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AI Recruitment Tools: The Downsides
There’s always a hidden (or not-so-hidden) drawback when solutions that seem too good to be true emerge — and artificial intelligence recruitment tools are no exception. Here are some of the key challenges associated with AI recruiting solutions (and how to overcome them).
- Privacy and security concerns: Some of the biggest objections to using AI are related to fears that users’ privacy will be invaded and their security compromised. How can you be sure the AI recruitment tools you choose won’t leave your data vulnerable?
Pro Tip: Human error still accounts for the vast majority of digital security incidents. Working with an established hiring platform like Hirematic — developed and maintained by experts focused on protecting your data — can be a lot safer than trying to go it on your own with AI hiring tools.
- Adoption costs: The price of AI-powered tools in general has come down as they become more widely available, but integrating a new technology into your systems always comes with costs.
Pro Tip: Hirematic’s omnichannel recruitment marketing budget lets you leverage the power of AI in recruiting without increasing your budget. You set your spending levels in the dashboard, and your entire budget is allocated to distributing and promoting your adverts.
- Learning curve: Many recruiting teams are working as a well-oiled machine, with systems and strategies that have been in place for a while. Learning to use new AI recruitment tools can slow your organisation down — or require extra hours dedicated to training everyone on the technology.
Pro Tip: Hirematic’s intuitive dashboard simplifies the process of incorporating AI into your hiring process. Upload your ad, set your budget, and our solution takes care of the rest.
- Human displacement: One of the concerns that shows up most consistently in coverage of AI tools is the fear that the technology will replace human professionals, leaving them struggling to find work.
Pro Tip: At Hirematic, we believe AI should augment human recruiting teams’ capabilities — not replace them. We know your hiring experts still have valuable skills and experience to add to the hiring process, and our platform is designed to help them maximise the impact of their talents and knowledge.
- Lack of data: AI technology draws its intelligence from the vast quantities of data it ingests. If your company doesn’t have a lot of historical recruitment data, can you really achieve the benefits AI hiring tools promise?
Pro Tip: The Hirematic platform’s performance is not dependent on the data that your organisation can provide — because we work with so many hiring teams and so many job boards and recruitment platforms, our system has a wealth of data to work with (and that data library is always growing).
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Still have questions about artificial intelligence recruitment tools? We’re always here to answer them. Contact our team or book a customised demo to see how Hirematic could help your organisation streamline recruitment.
