When it comes to hiring new workers, everyone says they're a great communicator, they work well under pressure, and are proficient in Microsoft Excel. Sifting through the details to find the right person takes time, and no one has time to waste. While AI presents all sorts of problems for job seekers (as we document regularly here), there are times when it can be a powerful tool to help companies find just the right people, and find them more quickly. You just have to use it right. Let's get into some tips!
Here are Five Fast Facts on using AI to help you hire better people faster:
- 📝 Describe This - AI is great at analyzing and summarizing stuff, so write out all of the things you want for a role and dump it all into AI. Messy doesn't matter. It'll give you a polished job description instead of a clumsy posting that sounds like it's looking for a superhero who works for free.
- 🔍 How To Guide - Once you have your snappy posting, AI can help you define what skills and personality an ideal candidate will have, and give you interview questions that apply directly to those skills. This will help you focus on the most important things instead of rejecting someone because they don't have 17 years of experience in software that was made last year.
- 👀 Comparison Shortcut - AI is already used a lot for candidate screening, and to be honest, that sucks for job seekers - it can too easily rule out great people based on tiny details! But, if you use it later in the process to compare resumes of candidates you already like, it can quickly identify differences like a digital hiring consultant!
- 💨 Pull It All Together - Interviewers often end up with hastily scribbled notes in lots of different places. AI can take transcriptions of interviews, scans of notepad pages, and random Post-It notes and pull it all into a cohesive evaluation of a candidate lickety-split.
- 🚫 Don't Do It - Always remember what AI should NOT do: make decisions for you. The human side of hiring is absolutely critical to find the right people with the best fit to fill your open positions. Outsource the busywork and data analysis to AI...not the decision making.
🔥Bottom line: If you view AI correctly and use it as a tool to speed along certain key parts of the hiring process, it's an awesome tool. Just make sure you keep it in its proper place! Use AI to get your hiring folks out of the weeds and give them more time and bandwidth to make the right decision for your business. You wouldn't want the printer deciding who gets the corner office...and neither should AI.
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