Supercharged Recruiters

Have you ever been an applicant for a role and felt like you didn’t receive enough communication from the organization? If yes, welcome to a club inhabited by most professionals. It’s frustrating for an applicant to navigate some clunky applicant tracking system, where your resume never uploads correctly, and the only message you receive is the automated response from your initial submission. 

On the other side of this equation, we have the recruiter. The position you applied to is one of 20 positions the recruiter is responsible for. Each of those positions has 50-100 applicants. Each of the positions is in a different phase of the hiring process, so every day the recruiter is reviewing resumes, doing phone screens, scheduling panel interviews (this circle of hell deserves its own blog post), and a gaggle of other tasks that are required in the recruiter position. So if the recruiter doesn’t have a snapstreak going with you, it’s not because they’re ignoring you.

Here is where AI has entered the recruitment picture in a major way, as the technology has made recruiters more efficient. Companies are now facing a choice when it comes to addressing the recruitment efficiencies created by AI: reduce its recruitment staff or enhance its ability to attract top-tier talent. Leveraging AI tools gives recruiters the opportunity to spend more time connecting with candidates. We have to remember that in the recruitment process, the company is marketing itself to the candidates just as much as the candidates are marketing themselves to the company. If recruiters can leverage AI tools to lighten their load on certain parts of the role, they can commit more time to the parts of the process where they add the most value: talking to candidates.

The companies that leverage the opportunity to supercharge their recruiters with new AI technologies will reap long term benefits in the quality of their workforce. The companies that justify reducing their recruiter footprint due to advances in AI will be left behind in the talent market. Choose wisely.