Taking a page from David Letterman, a trio of panelists from Jobvite today outlined a top 10 list to HR Technology Conference and Exposition about what talent acquisition will look like in the months and years ahead. In its presentation, Tomorrow's Talent Acquisition, Today: The AI, Analytics and Automation Top 10, the Jobvite team laid out how those technologies can be used today to create better candidate journeys, more efficient recruiting processes and measurable, data-driven outcomes for a talent acquisition organization. The presenters were Zach Linder, vice president, analytics and machine learning; Morgan Llewellyn, chief data officer; and Dwaine Maltais CEO of Talentegy, which was recently acquired by Jobvite, a talent acquisition technology provider headquartered in Indianapolis. Click here to sign up for HRE's daily newsletters. In descending order, Jobvite's top 10 ways that AI, analytics and automation will reshape TA, by enabling HR and TA leaders, are: For example, Llewellyn outlined why there is a "real business case" to be made for why your organization should be more diverse and more inclusive, apart from the legal concern for many organizations.

The recruitment market is big business -- worth some $554 billion annually according to the most recent report from the World Employment Confederation. In the tech world, that translates into a big opportunity to build tools to make a recruiter's work easier, faster and more likely of success in finding the right people for the job. Now Google is stepping up its own efforts in the space: today it is expanding Hire, its G Suite-based recruitment management platform, to the UK and Canada, its first international markets outside the US. Google is a somewhat late entrant into the market, launching Hire only in 2017 with the basic ability to use apps like Gmail, Calendar, Spreadsheets and Google Voice to help people manage and track candidates through the recruiting process and doing so by integrating with third-party job boards. In the interim, it has supercharged the service with bells and whistles that draw on the company's formidable IP in areas like AI and search.

April 11, 2018 – Companies are conducting fewer job interviews, but continue to see higher percentages of offers to candidates as well as hires, according to Jobvite's latest "Recruiting Benchmark Report." The percentage of interviews that resulted in offers grew from nearly 20 in 2016 to 28 in 2017. Offers-to-hires, meanwhile, went from 83 percent in 2016 to 90 percent last year. The jump in job offers represents the biggest increase in Jobvite's data for 2017, said the report. The San Matteo, CA-based software and recruiting company attributed the change to an increased use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, which spared recruiters from having to perform the more mundane, operational aspects of their jobs.