The present-day recruitment and hiring trends indicate that technological advancements are prompting recruiters to adopt automation and AI to expedite the hiring processes. The current recruitment needs, including standardisation and hiring of the best talent, especially during events like layoffs, can be primarily attributed to the recent popularity of automation and AI in the recruitment industry. Besides that, professionals in the recruitment industry have long been curious about how AI would fit into their specific industry and which AI-powered tools will best benefit them, which could be other reasons for this adoption.
Considering this, recruitment specialists have become interested in the viral ChatGPT announcement in late 2022, which is anticipated to revolutionise the hiring process. Not only recruitment professionals but ChatGPT has intrigued professionals across industries, and even Microsoft is incorporating this one of the most potent language models into Bing. This AI tool is poised to assist recruiters with tasks such as finding talent, lowering hiring errors, increasing diversity, and allowing more time for strategic and other worthwhile decisions.
Is ChatGPT the ultimate future of hiring?
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a dynamic language model “trained” on inclusive and diverse data sets, which can aid recruiters in successful hiring. This chatbot system employs deep learning and natural language processing (NLP) to comprehend and process language, making it much more sophisticated than standard chatbots. Real-time responses to natural language queries are one of the most significant benefits of ChatGPT.
ChatGPT has the potential to enhance sourcing and hiring in many ways. This cutting-edge technology can help recruiters in the:
Efficient hiring
A fair amount of time and money can be saved while increasing productivity by implementing it along with an effective applicant tracking system. By using it, recruiters can build boolean strings to get precise results tailored to their needs.
Recruiters can use it to automate regular content generation, such as emails and outreach messages, or to create candidate experience surveys, HR policies, and research the labour market. It can contribute to cost-effective hiring by eliminating the need for labour for specific repetitive tasks and allows better HR insights by offering text-based information and market trends.
Developing Job Descriptions
It can generate concise and captivating job descriptions to draw in a wide range of qualified applicants.
Resume screening
ChatGPT can be trained on resumes to aid in the selection process by identifying the skills, experience, and qualifications that match the job specifications. It can make it easy to source the best candidate’s resume.
Productive interview
With its use, interview questions can be generated based on the qualifications for the position and the applicant’s resume, assisting recruiters in conducting more productive interviews and better-evaluating candidates.
Effective correspondence
ChatGPT can create individualised and expert emails and other forms of correspondence with candidates, such as letters confirming interviews and declining and rejecting offers. It can enhance the candidate experience and boost employee engagement.
Its human-like real-time responses can help engage candidates and offer personalised answers to their queries.
However, given all these advantages, ChatGPT will only play its role as a tool to help recruiters do their jobs more quickly, accurately, and uniquely. It is so because hiring is a complicated process that requires human traits like diplomacy, emotional intelligence, and communication, along with legal and ethical considerations that necessitate human oversight and decision-making. Therefore, the human factor is essential to hiring and cannot be replaced by ChatGPT.
Nevertheless, more staffing and recruiting companies will use automation in the future to streamline routine tasks and cut back on administrative work because recruiting experts understand that investing in better recruiting tools and technology is the best way to conduct a successful recruitment. ChatGPT will be one of the most effective tools that will revolutionise hiring in many ways, help recruiters gain a competitive advantage and make the recruitment process more manageable.
(The author is Mr.Anuj Agrawal,Founder & CEO, Zyoin, and the views expressed in this article are his own)
