HR edition
This week: HR under the microscope as a field, AI job interviews at a major government body, and applicants slowing down your process with their own AI.
"HR jobs at risk": what's really behind that headline
A major American business magazine says AI is taking over more and more HR tasks. The question is not if this will happen, but which tasks go first.
Bloomberg Businessweek describes how AI is taking over HR tasks at American companies, and fast. Johnny Taylor, chair of SHRM, said at the biggest HR conference in the United States that the jobs of 1.6 million HR professionals there, and 6.7 million worldwide, are "at risk". He even used the word extinction. The article focuses on recruitment, screening and admin: exactly the tasks that are easiest to automate.
Background for subscribersThis week there's one common thread: AI is taking over more and more HR tasks, from job interviews to screening, but keeping an eye on it stays your job. Applicants are using AI themselves, which means you spend more time checking. Screening tools can't always explain why someone is rejected, and AI agents turn out to create risks when given fixed login details. In short: start small, keep explaining what a tool does, and always give the final check yourself to any AI product that goes out the door.
US government lets AI conduct job interviews
The US federal government is starting AI-led job interviews via the platform CodeSignal, beginning with a recruitment round for tech experts. The interviews run through virtual agents, phone, audio and text. Hiring managers then get written transcripts of the recordings to read.
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