Spotlight on How AI Is Revolutionizing the Way You’re Hired

More than half the companies in the United States and an increasing number across the world have adopted artificial intelligence systems to automate human resources functions like recruiting, hiring, interviewing, and onboarding. Almost all the Fortune 500 companies are already on this growing list.

From an employer’s point of view, there’s a lot to be said for this rapidly increasing uptake of AI in HR. Artificial intelligence makes it easier to screen resumés, write job descriptions, store and retrieve information about people interested in working for your company, and streamline new-hire trainings. But how can AI help you if you’re on the other side of this equation: a jobseeker, rather than an employer? Here are just a few ways: close have

1. It Can Help You Get Noticed

AI as used in today’s HR systems offers several advantages for job seekers. For one significantly more resumés and employment profiles than they otherwise might encounter. AI can help them scour the internet and sites like LinkedIn to identify potential job candidates. It can sift through resumés and other public information online quickly and efficiently, allowing the most relevant and promising candidates to rise to the top.

Ensuing that your resumé contains the most frequently used keywords in your industry or niche gives you a better chance of being found by these search assistants — and approached by a human. The AI system may be able to recommend those keywords to you.

2. It Can Help You Prepare

Even before that, when you’re still in the planning process of your job search, an AI program can help you upgrade your resumé and your cover letter, guide you through word choice and text flow, and assist you with fact-checking your documents.

Once you’re resumé-ready, a good AI system can save you countless hours of searching and scrolling by delivering the job announcements that best suit your experience, skillset, and goals. Some platforms offer assessments of your qualitative data that you can use to enhance customization of your job search results.

3. It Can Help You Get Connected

Once you’ve contacted a prospective employer, their AI system can facilitate communication. Even outside of normal business hours, the AI assistant is humming along, matching up calendar invites, synching schedules, sending reminder messages, and organizing the necessary pre-interview and post-interview documents you and the recruiter will need.

4. It Can Boost Your Professional Presentation

AI can continue to serve as a helpful co-pilot as you prep for your interview. A resumé questions generator can use the data in your resumé to give you a series of questions you are likely to be asked, depending on the job criteria and the industry. There are AI systems that will offer you a wide array of questions to help you to learn some of the ways an interviewer might ask questions and to practice your answers.

You may also want to look at some of the AI-powered interview simulators. Using video technology, you can make a practice run through a series of common questions. The AI will note your responsiveness as well as your verbal and facial expressions. Using the data it gathers, the AI can provide an assessment of your potential fit in a specified position and show you ways to make your fit obvious to employers.

Most often used by recruiters rather than candidates, these programs can offer introverted, neurodiverse, and inexperienced jobseekers a trial run without making them self-conscious. And if an employer uses one of these programs regularly as an accommodation for candidates uncomfortable with a human-to-human interview, it can help level the playing field and reduce anxiety for interviewees who are uncomfortable or awkward in person-to-person interactions.

5. It Can Help You Get up to Speed

Once you’re hired, your new employer’s AI system can make onboarding less stressful for you and your HR team. An AI can auto-populate routine forms with your personal information, sparing you the tedium of repetition. A chatbot can respond immediately to routine inquiries about your new workplace.

An AI program infused with powerful data analytics can identify the most useful trainings for your situation and keep your employer up to date about your completion of the full complement of learning programs and onboarding tasks. You might even have access to sophisticated AI platforms that can adjust their approach to training as they learn more about your individual learning style.

6. It Can Help You Stay in the Know

AI as used in the employment process is not without issues. According to a 2023 poll by the Pew Research Center in the United States, Americans in general were “wary” about the use of AI in HR operations. Substantial numbers of people said they were not OK with AI making final hiring or firing decisions. People from historically marginalized groups voiced the most concerns. Fully 20 percent of African American adults responding to the poll said they were concerned about bias in AI systems, versus 10 percent of Americans from other ethnic backgrounds.

Still, a substantial number of respondents said they believed AI could improve routinized HR functions. And in terms of hiring bias, many believed that the solution could lie in expanding the use of AI, presumably as a means of preventing humans’ inherent prejudices from affecting the process of hiring and evaluating employees.

What all this boils down to is that AI systems are as good or bad as the human beings who create, use, and refine them. Used in concert with experienced, empathetic, and engaged human recruiters, a robust AI system has the potential to help a company find, hire, and develop a skilled and diverse talent pool that includes you.