The Future of Job Interviews: Introducing AI + Human Evaluation
In the current job market, it is very essential for candidates to master the latest trends in recruitment. Looking for a job is not only a process of turning over CVs or preparing for the standard setting face to face interviews. Welcome to the new frontier: Artificial intelligence interviews.
This may sound like something that is more of futuristic movie, but the reality is that it is slowly coming to life. Other firms such as Micro1 are incorporating artificial intelligence in the market as a way of accessing employees through virtual assistants who conduct interviews, especially for technical positions being offered. So let’s assume it to be true that work today is radically different from work in the last century, but what does this mean for the modern job seeker and how should one go about it?
AI Interviewers: The Use of Efficiency to Its Highest Level
Another advantage which can be attributed to the use of interviews that are powered by AI is the element of efficiency. As stated by Ali Ansari, the creator of Micro1, AI enables organisations to sift through applicants “in a much faster and precise way. ” This is beneficial for recruiters who win in the race of making hiring decisions faster than their counterparts; as well as for the candidates who find more employers interested in them within a shorter time.
Among the benefits found by companies, speed of sorting 1000+ applications is crucial for the personnel. For instance, Micro1 employs an AI interviewer to either directly hire the talent for specific position or continue to build a talent pool of top-notch engineers from places like India and Argentina. The results are impressive: more than 100000 users have been registered in Micro1 platform abd organizations are using it to filter 30000 candidates monthly
AI Bias: Should We Be Concerned?
Like any new advancement in technology, there are issues associated with the use of AI for interviewing employees especially issues of bias. Given that AI operates under the data it received and studied the biases it may maintain in recruitment are a problem that has been a thorn on the industry.
The said concerns are not lost on Micro1, and measures are being undertaken to mitigate on them. Instead of categorizing the applicants into pass and fail, their AI interviewer sorts candidates into such groups as inexperienced, mid-level, and senior employees Human recruiters are the final judges and can listen to audio recordings of candidates’ answers to avoid biases.
The Future of AI Interviews
It is the same with asynchronous video interviews, which are emerging with increased frequency and shall be fostered even more by AI. Ansari believes that in the future candidates and recruiters should be relieved from the beginning portion of the interview phase where an AI avatar can be implemented.
The use of AI avatars in job interviews could potentially change the format of the interview making it less rigid and forcing the candidates to record their answers without interacting with others. This approach may make it fair as it will enable more people to prove their worth as developers.
What Does This Mean for You, the Job Seeker?
That is the hope with AI interviews, the possibilities and risks must also be reviewed. Here’s what you need to keep in mind to stay ahead in the game.
Here’s what you need to keep in mind to stay ahead in the game:
Adapt to New Formats: There is a possibility of asynchronous as well as AI-driven interviews as the new trend. Be ready for these new formats by having answers that can be used in a non conventional interview.
Highlight Skills and Experience: Traditional AI systems work in the search for specific skills that have been determined by certain criterias. It is important for you to adjust the contents of your resume and your answers to job interview questions towards highlighting your experience, knowledge and skills.
Stay Updated: Ensure that you do some monitoring in order to be up to date, on the current trends in recruitment. It will be quite invaluable if one gets to learn about how AI is influencing the personnel’s hiring processes so that one can prepare for the new world of employment.
AI-Powered Interviews: Human Element Still Matters
Although AI is transforming recruitment the human input is still paramount and this is what sets futuremug. At futuremug, we are the kind of people that embrace the powers of technology while at the same time respecting the opinion of the human mind. With the help of artificial intelligence, those processes become faster, but human recruiters are always needed to confirm the information and the summaries provided by the tools.
In our company, we use the AI systems to match candidates with job offers and even select the candidates by using various parameters to categorize them; however, our human resource end up reviewing the recommendations and making the last decisions due to fairness and no bias when dealing with the job Seekers. The combination of artificial intelligence and manual curation enables us to offer recruitment that is innovative and yet retains the actuality of human touch.
I would also like to note that at futuremug we use AI but we do not let it make all the decisions. Instead, what we have is an integration of the power and efficiency of artificial intelligence, data processing capabilities and human intelligence, experience, and creativity to guarantee the best results to both the candidates, and employers.
Stay ahead of the curve. Check out futuremug’s platform for insights and tools that can help you navigate the future of recruitment.
