HR edition
This week: recruiters are saving hours with AI, but the toolbox is full of promises you need to verify.
78% of recruiters use AI and gain 6.5 hours a week: impressive, but don't count your chickens
The time savings are real, but the moment you filter out candidates is exactly the moment you need to stay careful.
Research shows that 78% of Dutch recruiters use AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. They save an average of 6.5 hours per week and find qualified candidates 62% faster. An AI can analyse 100 CVs in a matter of minutes and flag the most relevant ones. Recruiters can handle three times as many candidates as a result.
Background for subscribersAI helps you handle more candidates and save time. But that speed brings risks too. Many tools do less on their own than they promise: 73% of so-called 'agentic AI' for recruitment is simply automation. Candidates accept AI in the process, but not as the final decision-maker. And legally, you as the deployer are already responsible, even if the strictest requirements do not apply until 2027. Understand how your tool works, keep the judgement with people, and make sure you can explain why someone was rejected.
Only 27% of AI agents for recruitment are truly autonomous
Research by Fosway into talent acquisition vendors shows that only 27% of features sold as 'agentic AI' actually work autonomously. The rest is advanced automation with a fancy label. So when you look at new tools, ask the right questions: what does the AI decide on its own, and what still needs a human to act?
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