Bosses fed up with candidate ghosting and combing through thousands of applications may have a new assistant for the gruelling selection process: using AI to interview the applicants. And the tools are benefiting job-seekers, too.
Despite some unemployed professionals sharing their frustration with the tool, overall job-seekers say they prefer it to interviewing with a human, according to recent research by SSRN.
When given the choice, 78% of job applicants picked the AI interviewer over a real person recruiter. And the technology is even helping them land opportunities—applicants interviewed by an AI voice agent were 12% more likely to get a job offer than those screened by human interviewers, according to the analysis.
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