Candidate experience: The holy grail of recruitment
“If you are not taking care of your candidates, your competitor will.” – Bob Hooey We’ve all seen a myriad of articles on how HR professionals can strengthen their candidate experience, but many of these forget to discuss the basics. What is candidate experience, and why does it matter? So before worrying about how to […]
Resume screening automation: The key to accurate hiring
“The playing field is poised to become a lot more competitive, and businesses that don’t deploy AI and data to help them innovate in everything they do will be at a disadvantage.” […]
How AI can help you accurately assess candidate skills
Sudhanshu Ahuja April 6, 2022 Making the wrong hire is costly, with each poor decision costing the organisation around USD $17,000, according to Career Builder. But with an estimated 50% of job seekers misrepresenting skills and experience on their resumes, finding the right hire isn’t always easy. Traditionally, recruiters and HR rely on the interview to […]
Intelligent automation: A transformative hiring solution
It’s a known fact that the modern workplace is becoming digitally transformed. Time-consuming HR tasks are being automated, allowing the recruiting team to focus on more important aspects of their jobs. Intelligent automation expands on this concept via artificial intelligence which simplifies processes, frees up resources, and improves operational efficiencies. Intelligent automation platforms provide many […]
The importance of using candidate experience surveys
impress.ai March 25, 2022 “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” – Warren Buffett From the moment candidates apply for one of your vacant roles to when you reject them or extend a job offer, job seekers have a lot […]
Why we need diversity and inclusion in the workplace
impress.ai February 20, 2022 “A diverse mix of voices leads to better discussions, decisions, and outcomes for everyone.” — Sundar Pichai, Chief Executive Officer of Alphabet As business leaders are beginning to see the untapped benefits of diversity and inclusion in a workplace, there has been a shift from seeing it as more than policies, programs, […]
Legal risks in AI in recruitment and how to avoid them
“We must address, individually and collectively, moral and ethical issues raised by cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and biotechnology, which will enable significant life extension, designer babies, and memory extraction.” —Klaus Schwab Merging recruitment with technological innovation always comes with potential legal risks, and this can occur parallel to the time during which employers are […]
The impact of AI in recruitment
“Humans need and want more time to interact with each other. I think AI coming about and replacing routine jobs is pushing us to do what we should be doing anyway: the creation of more humanistic service jobs.” -Kai-Fu Lee, chairman, and chief executive officer, […]
Why recruiters and HR need conversational AI chatbots
Sudhanshu Ahuja December 15, 2021 We’ve all had negative experiences with chatbots, where answers seem narrow and unhelpful, particularly in customer service interactions. Let’s face it, they can be infuriating, and this turns many people off when thinking about using the technology in their own organisations. However, technology is rapidly advancing, and this mindset might […]
How AI can eliminate bias in your recruitment process
Sudhanshu Ahuja December 7, 2021 Today, most organizations promote themselves as equal opportunity employers with fair and diverse hiring policies. And while most recruitment and HR teams have the best intentions, this can be almost impossible to guarantee when manually screening candidates because we all have unconscious biases – those underlying stereotypes we don’t realize […]