Artificial Intelligence in Recruiting

The use of technology in recruiting is not intrinsically new. For years, hiring managers have been using application tracking systems and software, focused on managing volume and process, to filter applications based on given criteria like particular keywords or years of experience. Similarly for candidates, email once signed up to online job boards, email notification of broad matches for jobs are a familiar sight in inboxes, and organizations, agencies and headhunters reaching out to candidates via channels such as LinkedIn is also ubiquitous. Discussion about the extent to which Artificial Intelligence (AI) machine learning (ML) and data analytics should be used in recruitment itself, however, has often been intense; amid fear that it will take the human touch and "chemistry" element out of recruitment. Yet technology today has evolved to a level at which the debate is over.