More than 8 in 10 companies use AI to review resumes, 40% employ AI chatbots to communicate with candidates, and roughly a quarter use AI to conduct interviews, according to a Resume Builder survey. Another 19% plan to add AI for conducting interviews this year.
“The technology has caught on so quickly that many people aren’t ready for it,” Jim Chaffee, an AI expert at the University of Iowa, told Yahoo Finance.
“Using AI early in the process to screen out candidates is a useful and time-saving tool for employers,” he said, “but chatbots are not properly equipped to get more in-depth with a candidate, at which point human participation is vital.”
Companies hiring right now are inundated with job seekers, which has escalated the use of AI interview assistants in recent months, Chaffee said.
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