Recruiting Automation Roundup

This week’s roundup is perfectly summed up by our first featured headline, “Welcome to the age of Recruiting Automation.” Marketing and sales roles have benefitted and grown because of the adoption of automation tools. The time for recruiting to join the ranks of people using AI to make their work more efficient, streamlined and meaningful. Catch-up on all the recruiting automation news this week.  

Welcome to the Age of Recruiting Automation
“As the hiring process has evolved from newspaper ads to job boards to social recruiting, the next wave of this industry is recruiting automation. Just as salespeople and marketers have benefited from software-enabled automation in recent years, recruiters are increasingly turning to automated mechanisms for hiring the best talent, and the industry is responding accordingly.”  

HR Jobs: Will Artificial Intelligence retire recruiters?
“I think we’ve been looking at it the wrong way. Because the question is never about ‘if AI can replace recruiters?’ Rather, I ask myself, ‘How can AI be used by humans to improve their job?’”

Here is the Essential Landscape for Enterprise AI Companies
“Plenty of enterprise companies use combinations of automated data science, machine learning, and modern deep learning approaches for tasks like data preparation, predictive analytics, and process automation. Many are well-established players with deep domain expertise and product functionality. Others are hot new startups applying artificial intelligence to new problems. We cover a mix of both.”

Automated recruiting solves Groupon’s sourcing talent woes

"Our pain right now is around sourcing," Buford said in an interview, and improving talent sourcing means being able to cast as wide a net as possible and using automated recruiting. Sourcing talent is the focus of its technology investments, she said.

Video: What is Recruiting Automation: A Conversation on Recruiting Automation with Jon Bischke & Josh Bersin
“The status quo is simply not going to work going forward.” said CEO and Founder of Entelo, Jon Bischke. As recruiting enters an era where jobs are finding people, rather than people finding jobs, recruiters need to add new tools to their arsenal to remain competitive in this landscape. Welcome to the age of recruiting automation.”

The recruiting status quo is changing hiring for the better, and as companies adopt these new practices, hiring problems are solved, and workers and employers alike find the right fit.