Why AI Is Reading Your Resume and What Can You Do About It

The human recruiting process has a long timeframe and high complexity, but can simplified into four key words: searching, screening, interviewing and hiring. Today's large global labour force and convenient online application systems however have put a stain on the screening part of the recruiting process. An average of 250 resumes are received for each corporate job opening -- a number that continues increasing -- and it takes an experienced recruiter about five minutes to review each resume. Moreover, in spite of the time-consuming resume reviewing process, hiring remains plagued by randomness and uncertainty often due to unconscious human subjectivity and biases. Many companies around the world are asking the same question: How to objectively and efficiently identify the best candidates from a huge pile of resumes?