2025: Artificial Intelligence and the recruiting revolution

"People are our best assets" is one of most common sentences we hear from corporations. It implies that recruiting the best people should be a fundamental step to generate future outstanding performances. Recruitment techniques have gone through several eras and fads, for example mentoring, military recruitment, traditional intuitive recruitment, large-scale administrative recruitment, followed by analytical, predictive and scientific recruitment. The problem, again, is that if every company adopts the "state of the art" tool of the moment, it will be able to recruit more or less with the same quality of any other. The results of some researches somehow confirm the above assumption: according to a survey conducted by Arlington-based Corporate Executive Board, nearly a quarter of all new hires leave within a year, while Gallup reports that half of those who do stay reported being "not engaged.