My communication channels (email, Facebook, Linked In, etc) have been flooded lately with articles on fake candidates, fake job ads, fake resumes, A.I. conducting interviews on behalf of companies, and most recently, A.I. conducting interviews on behalf of candidates. It is so frustrating to go into an interview and not know if the other being has blood pumping through their veins.
I interviewed a candidate just yesterday that I am fairly certain was using prompts to answer my questions. And then, he slipped up. My clients recognized it, because they have been trained.
Read that again: they had been trained.
I have been doing this work for over 20 years. I have seen markets where the candidate pool was enormous and markets where the candidates were very hard to find. I have seen markets with huge number of job listings or very few job listings. Think of the housing market: same thing. Lots of houses to sell with lots of buyers or few buyers. Very few houses to sell with lots of buyers or very few buyers.
For the hiring industry, one thing has never changed: we still don’t train our people to conduct effective interviews, and until we prioritize that training, we will continue to fall prey to scam artists. We will continue to make bad hires.
A.I. has many uses, and there are ways that A.I. can make your business more efficient. Even in recruiting and hiring. Because the stakes are so high, you must have an H.I.L. (A human-in-loop) to oversee your efforts. That person MUST be trained in conducting effective interviews.
POWER THOUGHT: A.I. is not the threat. The threat is lack of training,