How to Use AI in Hiring to Eliminate Bias: (All You Need to Know)

AI and machine learning are useful tools in helping organizations implement more efficient, unbiased and effective hiring processes. AI can free human recruiters (who often spend 40 percent of their time sorting resumes) to do more high value tasks, like building relationships with candidates, and streamline and automate interview scheduling, candidate screening, and measure specific recruitment KPIs. Critically, AI algorithms used in the hiring process must be trained on diverse historical data representative of real-world populations to ensure that bias is not being perpetuated. Incorporating input and perspectives from various teams and individuals within the company, such as recruiters, data scientists, subject matter experts, and managers, is key to developing algorithms that aren't governed by partiality. AI models should also undergo rigorous testing prior to production, and be continuously evaluated and retrained over time.