Worried about being replaced by robots? This should make you feel better: Only 20% of jobs have a “high exposure” to generative AI, meaning the skills required to do them are likely to be subbed with AI, a recent Indeed report found.
While jobs requiring human interaction and “decision-making based on nuanced understanding” are among the least likely to be automated (sounds like recruiting, huh?), no job will be left completely untouched. So, how might talent acquisition pros incorporate AI into their roles?
Approach it with an open mind and recognize the potential benefits, suggested Maggie Hulce, EVP and general manager for job-seekers at Indeed.
Don’t “fear it or try to prevent it,” she told HR Brew. “[It’s] a tool that can help your teams spend more time doing the human part of hiring and less time doing the rote things.”
What does a partnership look like? Ask yourself: How does my process run today, and how can AI make it easier and faster tomorrow?
You could use AI to inform a talent plan, Hulce said, including where you should open jobs in your company or geographically, what offerings will make you competitive, and what skills you’re looking for in candidates. Then, use it to automate the more administrative aspects of recruiting, like the time-consuming process of scheduling interviews.
“There’s a lot of things that can actually be made easier with technology, and it doesn’t mean the humans aren’t in control of it,” she said. “It’s just helping to streamline some of the back and forth that takes a lot of the time.”
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Let AI shop for you. Hulce said it’s important for TA pros to feed job descriptions and postings with as much information as possible. That way, AI-powered job search platforms can match you with the best possible candidates.
That’s what’s happening at Indeed. Hulce said the platform sends TA pros AI-generated recommendations based on the information included in their job listings. It also allows TA pros to invite job-seekers, whose work preferences match job descriptions, to apply for their open jobs.
Hulce said if you give the AI more detailed information, “it can do a better job working for you,” adding that working with AI to find applicants is similar to working with a personal shopper to buy clothes.
“If you were asking someone to go buy clothes for [you], if you told them, ‘I like pants,’ it’s not a lot of detail, and there’s a lot of pants,” Hulce said. “It doesn’t have to be daunting, but if you don’t give it information, and you don’t make sure that information is understandable, then it will be hard for the AI to help you, and you’re not going to like the jeans they come back with.”