Here’s a look at the way candidates perceive Artificial Intelligence in the recruitment interview stage.
“The future of recruitment hangs in the balance”, says Craig Fisher. Couldn’t agree more. While recruiters find themselves in the AI learning process and try to ease their work with the use of AI, candidates have something to say as well, don’t they? The graphic below is based on a survey where more than 200 job candidates were asked about how comfortable they are interacting with an online robot (chatbot app) to speed up the interview process. Let’s see how comfortable candidates are answering initial questions about the interview process, scheduling interviews and helping with interview preparation, and performing skills assessment.
When it comes to: a) Answering initial questions about the interview process, the results are as follows: 21.17% are extremely comfortable 36.9% fairly comfortable 23.42% uneasy 18.92 extremely uneasy
b) Scheduling interviews and helping with interview preparation, we can see that: 36.94% are fairly comfortable 29.28% extremely comfortable 16.67% are uneasy, 17.57% are extremely uneasy.
c) Performing skills assessment: 35.59% are fairly comfortable 25.23% are extremely comfortable 18.92% are uneasy 20.27% are extremely uneasy.
Because we earlier talked about balance, we can notice from the numbers above, that most candidates seem to be open working with robots at least in this part of the recruitment process: the interview. There is no doubt that we need the human touch in the recruitment processes. Candidates expect it and recruiters are not planning to leave that aside, but there are low-level processes that can be automated and ease every party involved. The future of work will be influenced by Artificial Intelligence and the way we look at it, the way we learn and how quickly we adapt to it, as AI has proven to be in many ways a helping hand.
There is a better way to recruiting than virtually moving resumes and candidates around on the recruiter’s desktop. It all comes down to the human interaction and depth of understanding of a candidate’s unique complexity. With that in mind, the chances of getting the best and right talent your organization needs, grow exponentially. Why even bother? Can’t we just count on our “guesstimation” skills? Beyond achievements and resumes, there are multiple facets of the candidates’ personality that will reflect on their long-term performance. Why take blind chances? At SourceMatch, we count on staying human in the recruitment process, but also use validated systems and proprietary assessments that quantify all dimensions of a candidate’s profile that are predictive of success on the job.
The skills gap is very real and affects the recruiting efforts of most companies. They have trouble finding enough of the right level of talent and skills. Recruiters’ efforts are affected by an imbalance of high demand for talent and low availability and hence why many times they count on salary to convince candidates to make a move. From that, an artificial career progression ensues. Professionals end up “promotions” more often than healthy. At SourceMatch, we start from one premise: by empowering our clients to access, hire, motivate and retain the best talent – our mission as a recruitment company, we can bridge the skills gap. Once hired, a company’s job regarding that new employee isn’t over. Motivating and retention are crucial and have their success roots in the recruitment process. Put in place the right recruitment strategy and retention is an entirely different ballgame.
There’s a saying that we believe in: “An organization’s ability to grow is only as good as its ability to attract, hire and retain the best talent, but also helps them develop professionally.” By helping them develop professionally, you are not only making sure that they stay motivated, but you can achieve your goals in a different time frame.
As Bogdan Negru, our Vice President of Solutions, mentioned in this interview, one of the aspects that helps a company thrive is continuous recruiting. Employers are challenged every time they find themselves in the situation to fill vacant positions now or yesterday. The temptation to get someone in the job ASAP is so great that many times hiring managers end up having anyone that can manage somehow. SourceMatch’ continuous hiring solution enables our clients to constantly look for candidates that match their culture, the traits that make candidates successful in their organization, have objectives that align or complement their own, and finally values that don’t contradict, but rather improve theirs.
Working with a recruitment partner can be a bliss – listen to this interview that the SourceMatch VP of Solutions – Bogdan Negru – had with Malcolm Lui, explaining how that happens.
We recruit with people in mind, but we do it by means of numbers. Recruiting project managers at SourceMatch have one main objective, and it is to provide valuable results to hiring managers they collaborate with. Their business is to understand statistics in such a manner that make the interaction profitable, thus creating a win-win-win situation. Why a triple win you may ask? Because recruiting needs to be a partnership between the hiring manager, the recruitment project manager and the candidate who is to be hired.
Think about how you would develop a general recruitment plan. You would have to review job descriptions. But before that, you would have to consider people finding strategies and use alternative labor pools. You would also have to have an image of how your company is perceived as a workplace from the outside. And as you would go about the process you would hit some roadblocks and you would have to adjust your goals. But these roadblocks you did not plan for could be a setback. This is where a recruitment company could come in handy as it would act as a buffer against the unexpected. Recruitment project managers would be helpful in determining your overall recruitment needs by having well-established business goals.
Or imagine you are on the lookout for a specific talent or that you are looking to hire a large number of skilled workers. How long will it take you, the hiring manager, to hire? How long does the recruitment process take for professional recruiters? Most companies out there would certainly know right off the bat that it takes on average less time to recruit when working with a partner specializing in recruitment. Time is only one of the factors you have to consider, the others include the variety of sources, recruiting research, and thorough process of vetting candidate’s before they even get to you. All of them matter when it comes to making a decision that affects an organization’s operations and growth plans. If you would have to estimate the true cost of hiring, we recommend looking at some statistics to put a value on the process.
You may come across reports saying that hundreds of talented people are going after the same job. And at the same time, you may come across conflicting recruitment statistics that highlight the difficulties of the skills gap and missing talent. Now let’s talk in concrete terms. If you take into consideration stats like “90% of job seekers say that it’s important to work for a company that embraces transparency” or stats like “79% of job seekers say they are likely to use social media in their job search” you may look at those big numbers and jump to the conclusion that finding someone is easy. In reality, it’s not.
Yes, you have to recruit with numbers in mind, but truth to be told you have to have the right numbers and get your facts straight. According to Glassdoor, “on average, each corporate job offer attracts 250 resumes. Of those candidates, 4 to 6 will get called for an interview, and only one will get the job”. In other words, you will pay the cost in time and resources to go through 250 candidates/resumes plus the cost of expertise and tools, not to mention the opportunity costs. If you would outsource the recruiting process to a recruiting partner, they would use their resources in an optimal way. Recruiting agencies live and thrive by means of performance metrics. Recruiting project managers oversee the recruiting process by keeping track of recruiting funnel metrics such as time to source, time to interview, time to hire, etc. They are well aware that coming with better, faster, and more reliable results than their clients could internally is the only measurement of success, and eventually the reason why clients do business with them!
Are you missing anything? You might think that your organization’s internal resources and information are enough. Along with your recruiters, you provide candidates with details on compensation packages and benefits, details on what makes the company an attractive place to work, its mission, vision, and values. It’s easy to miss the fact that attracting talent isn’t the hardest part. Attracting, or rather finding the best talent within the desired timeframe is the most difficult part of the recruiting process. For instance, recruiting project managers at SourceMatch leverage research, intelligent algorithms, multiple compensation market data, and especially proactive measures to identify candidates that wouldn’t otherwise be visible.
Our main priority is to work with clients to enable them to reach candidates that are performing above peer professionals in the market. > Assisting the hiring manager and the client’s human resources team to build on their experience about what makes an employee successful over the long term; > Extend the reach of the client’s recruiters whether to identify hard to find talent or large numbers of candidates needed in a short timeframe; > By managing the whole recruiting process, and allowing the client’s human resources team to focus on talent onboarding, development, and overall experience. > We create 360-degree candidate presentation packages that include all the data needed for our client’s hiring managers, recruiters and human resources, to make informed hiring decisions.
At SourceMatch, we’ve developed and are constantly improving our own approach to recruitment: we design recruiting with people in mind, not just numbers. We pay attention to our clients’ needs by enabling them to pursue expansion into new countries, to grow in current markets, or to identify hard to find professionals. What qualifies us according to our clients is the speed of execution while tackling complex recruiting engagements, identifying strong professionals while dealing with their limited availability, or putting in place recruiting systems that serve as immediate help in expanding teams. Discover and explore our range of case studies to see how our teams of experts deliver recruiting solutions for a variety of needs.
The world is changing, and that’s a good thing. If you are not seeing it, you won’t be able to avoid it whether you like it or not. It is quite essential to develop a clear sense of what is happening around in the labor market and understand how these changes are affecting your Industry. Everything was planned, shaped for the benefit of economies and societies, and the implications of changes to work for individuals, for their livelihoods and for the youngest generations studying to enter the workforce down the line. Are we alarmed that this change will have a negative impact on the workforce? The truth is that many in the marketplace are wondering if new technologies will replace the human employee. This isn’t the first industrial revolution that creates worries about technological unemployment. It’s commonly accepted (and also debated) that the introduction of new technologies has displaced skilled workers but created demand for jobs. Hence the idea that innovative technology at a large scale does not replace human work but enhances it by increasing productivity and thus output levels.
However, there are complex feedback loops between new technology, jobs, and skills. New technologies can drive business growth, job creation and demand for specialist skills but they can also displace entire roles when certain tasks become obsolete or automated. At the same time, our belief is that these transformations, if managed wisely, will lead to a new age of good jobs, good work and improved quality of life for all.
First, let’s see how technology adoption can affect the Information and Communication industry according to The Future of Jobs Report 2018. A huge share of survey respondents from the industry indicated that, by 2022, their company was “likely” or “very likely” (on a 5-point scale) to have adopted new technology as part of its growth strategy.
Second, if we look at the barriers to adoption of new technologies, we can see the five biggest perceived barriers to the implementation of new technologies across the industry, as ranked by the share of survey respondents. The following graphic will show the obstacles that were selected by the survey respondents that were perceived as impediments to successful new technology adoption faced by their company.
Thirdly we have the expected impact of new technology adoption on the workforce. In the following graphic, you can see the percentages representing the share of survey respondents from the industry who expect their company to have adopted the stated measure(s) over the 2018–2022 period as part of their current growth strategy.
Adopting new technology comes packaged with promises but also with challenges. Yet, even if these technologies increase our productivity and improve our lives, their use will substitute some activities that are currently handled by people, a development that has sparked much public concern. At the same time, to leverage the benefits of new technology, workers will need to acquire skills enabling them to thrive in the workplace of the future and develop their ability to continuously learn and upskill throughout their lives.
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