AI vs. Gut Instinct: Why Smart Hiring Needs Both
AI can track human facial features, body gestures, movements, and voice to analyze emotions and cognitive processes. The technology also can measure facial expressions and behavior to determine engagement in a conversation.
In contrast, your gut instinct lets you know whether someone is trustworthy. The brain-body connection alerts you to danger or comfort in situations to help make safe decisions.
Combining the benefits of AI and gut instinct makes them a powerhouse for hiring. Find out how AI can complement human intuition in hiring decisions for faster and more accurate results.
Benefits of AI for Smart Hiring
AI helps humans improve the hiring process:
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Efficiency. Handling candidate screening, communication, and interview scheduling frees up time to interact with candidates.
- Improved Candidate Experience. AI chatbots and self-scheduling tools answer candidate questions, coordinate interviews, and reduce time-to-hire.
- Better Candidate Matches. Advanced AI algorithms analyze candidates’ education, skills, experiences, achievements, and other qualifications to match them with open roles for a better quality of hire.
- Enhanced Diversity. Objectively evaluating candidate data reduces unconscious bias for better candidate diversity and a more equitable hiring process.
- Reduced Costs. Freeing up time to interact with candidates strengthens resource allocation, reduces vacancy rates, and lowers hiring, onboarding, and training expenses.
Using AI for Candidate Sourcing
You can use AI to build strong candidate pipelines:
- Developing Candidate Personas. AI can pull employee data and historical hiring data for a role to uncover patterns and common characteristics. Combining this information with qualitative data from interviews helps create a profile representing the types of successful candidates. Understanding the characteristics, behaviors, interests, goals, and motivators to look for helps create targeted messages to find qualified candidates.
- Writing Job Descriptions. Providing AI chatbots with job tasks, skill requirements, and employer brand elements helps create job descriptions for the hiring manager to modify before posting. The chatbot can also review existing job descriptions to uncover gender-biased language, suggest neutral words, and help attract a more balanced number of gendered candidates.
- Skills Matching. AI can review online profiles to find candidates with the desired skills and competencies. The technology also can determine the likelihood of a candidate’s openness to a role by combining the average tenure of their listed jobs with the average tenure of other candidates in that same role. These activities help identify passive candidates and expand candidate pools.
- Predictive Analytics. Machine learning (ML) models can use a candidate’s profile to assess interest, motivations, likelihood to accept a job offer, and predicted tenure. This information helps personalize outreach messages to appeal to the candidate.
Benefits of the Human Touch in Hiring
Because people are at the core of businesses, they are essential to the hiring process:
- Relationship Building. Since people understand people, they use empathy to establish rapport with candidates. The energy a hiring manager feels around someone impacts whether they would work well with their team.
- Assessing Cultural Fit. Human intuition helps evaluate a candidate’s cultural fit, motivation, and work ethic.
- Strategic Thinking. Humans know their current and future hiring needs and can plan accordingly.
Blending AI and Gut Instinct for Hiring
Combining data, insights, and efficiency with empathy, storytelling, and rapport elevates the hiring process. Creating a harmonious partnership between AI and gut instinct embraces technology and human touch to match candidates and roles for high-performing teams.
Need Help Combining AI and Gut Instinct in Hiring?
Finding the right balance between AI and gut instinct in hiring can be difficult. The PrideStaff team understands and can help. To learn more, contact your local PrideStaff office.
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