Artificial intelligence helping HR find, hire better candidates

Artificial intelligence is giving HR professionals the information they need to source and hire higher-quality professionals, according to a new survey from Korn Ferry. "A lot of folks thought AI was going to replace recruiting, but our perspective has always been AI is going to allow recruiters to do even more, from a qualitative standpoint," says Franz Gilbert, Korn Ferry's vice president of product innovation. The consulting firm's survey of 800 talent acquisition professionals found that industry professionals routinely leverage AI to hone different aspects of the quest to find the best candidates for the right jobs. Among the survey respondents, 69% turn to AI specifically to aid in finding higher-quality candidates, and the same percentage of respondents agree that AI has transformed recruiting. But not everything that came out of the survey was positive.