// Recruitment Technology
7 ways to use AI in recruitment
25/05/2024
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nb. This article was written by Jordan Shlosberg, founder of Atlas and human being.
Every industry will be impacted by AI. But let’s be honest, AI in recruitment is going to be one of the most impacted industries.
Why?
How many phone calls and emails are you receiving every single day? You may not even realize it but simply by doing your job, you are creating valuable insights and data that could be used to make the rest of your year better.
So how do you get started and how do you actually use AI in recruitment? Let’s go through the recruitment process and highlight the best AI platform and tools for each step of the way.
1. Use AI to make your candidate database useful (for a change)
The easier and faster you can find candidates in your database, the more placements you make per month.
You’re hooked on Linkedin. It doesn’t matter how many candidates you’ve come across, you’ll commonly revert to Linkedin.
Why? Because your current system does a poor job at making your candidate database useful. The data goes out of date, requires hours of tagging effort and is unsearchable.
Atlas surfaces relevant candidates 10x faster than every other platform, which means you can make a lot more placements from passive candidates as well as your candidate database.
This is my profile on the Atlas platform. How much effort did I put in to add all that info? None.
Atlas synced with my inbox, pulled my resume from an email and parsed it with 99% accuracy. No need to use Daxtra, or TextKernel!
Then it enriched my profile, understanding the seniority and function of every role I’ve held as well as the information about every company I’ve worked for, including a description, company size and industry!
This means that when I enter in, the industry, function and seniority, guess which of our qualified candidates pops up? Jordan Shlosberg
2. Make candidate search easier with AI powered tools
Finding the best candidates in your database can be difficult if you are using old recruitment platforms. Fortunately AI recruiting tools like Atlas, make finding relevant candidates a huge amount easier
AI system for candidate search
Atlas AI reads the job descriptions of your project and sets up the search filters automatically. Role, seniority, location, job title, skills, everything. You’re then free to adjust the filters as you see fit.
This is a little different from artificial intelligence which promises to simply give you the best candidates for a job.
We don’t believe this is the right way to use AI for the following reasons:
Just because someone has got ‘three years in react’, doesn’t make them a good developer
A resume isn’t a 100% complete document that outlines all the skills a person has
Filtering for role, experience and technical skills is really easy.
If you don’t have good data to begin with, artificial is limited in what it can do.
Asking AI to find the right candidates
Once you’ve filtered down to the most qualified candidates, you might have a few specific questions for each of these final candidates. Going through these candidates one by one can be tedious and so Atlas AI can take a question you have about a candidate and provide the answers for all, immediately.
That recruitment process is already feeling a lot easier, right?
3. Query everything candidate based on all your past knowledge
Send better qualified candidates will yield to more placements
AI in recruitment isn’t limited to writing aides. AI is a lot more powerful and can cover a lot of the administrative tasks that you’ve previously had to waste time doing yourself.
Most recruitment processes require basic information such as salary, notice and candidate preferences. This information is buried in notes, emails and other communications.
Atlas brings all this information to the front of mind.
Atlas remembers everything that candidate has told anyone at your company, which means you can rapidly find ideal candidates by asking Atlas questions.
It also knows what candidate information is regularly used and so will provide salary, notice periods and candidate preferences instantly and automatically. No need to hunt for vital information when using the Atlas AI recruiting software.
4. Write job descriptions based on client conversations
More accurate job descriptions = better applications = more placements
Early in the recruitment process, you speak to the hiring team to understand who they’re hiring for. For most recruitment professionals, a job description is usually written. In executive search, you want to understand what the client is looking for.
Want the fun bit?
You’ll never have to write a job description again.
Atlas has access to all the knowledge that you have. With the click of a button, it can turn all those phone calls, meetings and emails into a succinct Job Description that will allow you to kick off the recruitment process that much faster and that much better
5. Use AI in recruitment to draft outreach campaigns
Reach out to more candidates with personalised content leads to more candidates and a better chance of placement.
Multi-step, multi-touch Outreach campaigns are extremely effective but can take a long time to set up and are extremely complex to manage.
Or are they?
Atlas uses Artificial Intelligence to make creating these campaigns a breeze.
With all the information that you have, Atlas can make first drafts of any form of Outreach from emails to inMails. What’s better, it can also generate follows that are unique to that Outreach campaign.
You’ll probably make a few tweaks to these AI system generates messages but the quality of your communication will jump significantly, as will the speed at which you send it.
Atlas campaigns automates all your administrative tasks by queuing up all your campaign todos so you don’t have to worry about anything apart from sending that inmail and getting on that phone call. Sourcing candidates done much, much quicker!
The hiring process becomes 10x simpler when you use this kind of AI in recruitment.
7. AI in recruitment: Interview intelligence
At the midpoint of your hiring process you are going to be interviewing or screening candidates. It’s not a great candidate experience when they are trying to answer questions while you furiously type your notes.
Atlas sits in on those interviews with qualified candidates and minutes after you leave the meeting, you have a full set of notes in whatever way you want.
By default, Atlas provides a Q&A of every meeting you have, outlining the questions you asked as well as the answers given.
If you have a different way to assess candidates, you can create your own interview template that re-writes those interviews in whatever way you need.
The best part is that Atlas Interview AI is an all-in-one AI recruiting software, meaning you don’t have to leave the platform to gather these notes.
Why is AI in recruitment important?
Recruitment is full of unstructured data from candidates. Phone calls, emails, notes, all this information is generated but hardly ever stored.
Expecting that your colleagues are suddenly going to become diligent note-takers is wishful thinking. A better solution is to use artificial intelligence in your recruitment business to improve efficiency and remove repetitive tasks.
You are lucky in that your industry is one that can benefit the most from AI but in the same way, recruitment firms that don’t adopt AI will be at a disadvantage.
What are the challenges of applying AI in recruitment?
Artificial intelligence is going to change the way recruitment is done. There are a lot of good legacy tools out there but legacy tools can’t take full advantage of AI. Sure they will be first to wrap AI products around existing processes but they won’t be able to look at your career from first principles and think ‘If I was building this software from scratch, knowing what I know now, how would it be different?’
It may be daunting for a recruitment agency to move their core platform to a new provider but I’d much rather feel daunted for a few weeks than to watch my revenue slip away as my competing recruitment agencies become faster and better.
How will AI change the role of the recruiter?
Recruitment will not die. Humans are needed in any white-collar recruitment process because recruitment is about people. It’s not just about the past experience that somebody has but a deep understanding of the candidate’s motivations and values.
Instead, artificial intelligence is going to make a recruiter’s job more lucrative and potentially easier. All that boring low-value stuff you didn’t want to do is now automated. Resume parsing is now perfect and the best-fit candidates will jump out of your database and practically scream at you.
Artificial intelligence is going to make you a better recruiter
And Atlas is your tool to gain that unfair advantage.
From screening resumes, to acting as your copilot, the recruiting process is about to become infinitely easier.
The only thing left for you to decide is….do you want to take the unfair advantage, or would you prefer that unfair advantage is used against you.
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