Are you spending more time looking at resumes or scheduling interviews than interacting with candidates? Artificial intelligence (AI) recruitment software can reduce your workload significantly and it’s totally transforming the recruitment industry. So much so that an estimated 99% of Fortune 500 companies are already using AI in their search for talent — and about 65% of recruiters are using it worldwide. But many are still unsure about how AI works or are undecided about incorporating it into their processes. Let’s talk about how taking advantage of AI recruiting software can set your organization apart.
AI recruiting software is a game changer that has the ability to automate time consuming and repetitive tasks not only for organizations seeking talent, but also applicants themselves. AI recruitment software enhances numerous facets of the recruitment process from sourcing and screening, to onboarding and retention. An estimated 35% of recruiters are concerned AI might exclude diverse candidates with unconventional experience or backgrounds. But the goal of AI recruitment software is not to remove humans entirely. Instead, it’s to free up recruiters from labor-intensive tasks so that they can focus on building relationships with candidates.
There is an array of powerful AI recruiting tools on the market that still allow you to recruit candidates with DEIB in mind. Let’s take a look at some of the best AI recruiting software options for 2024.
What is AI recruiting software?
Previous PowerToFly articles have addressed more general issues regarding AI in recruitment and how to incorporate it. Essentially, AI recruiting software applies machine learning and algorithms in various stages of the candidate recruitment process and ultimately helps foster data-driven decision making. Some recruitment tasks that may be simplified by AI include:
- writing job descriptions
- searching for candidates
- screening applications
- skills tests
- scheduling
7 AI recruiting software for 2024
There are plenty of options out there, so make sure to consider your team's needs when looking at AI recruitment software. If you haven’t yet, organize internal stakeholders that would interact with the software and make a comprehensive list of requirements from your team. This will lay the foundation for how to choose the right AI recruitment software tool. Other things to consider when choosing the right tools are user-friendliness, integration options, and scalability.
1. Paradox
Paradox is an AI recruiting assistant that simplifies the recruitment process for hourly jobs. The AI assistant, Olivia, transforms lengthy job applications into an accessible, friendly, and mobile-based conversation. Through the conversation, Olivia can handle each step of the recruitment process: sourcing, screening, applications, interview scheduling, and onboarding. This way, hiring managers can better focus on business rather than the logistics of the recruitment process.
2. Xor AI Recruiter
Xor AI Recruiter is another digital recruiting assistant that is specifically focused on recruitment for blue-collar jobs. Xor works 24/7 and uses automation and predictive analytics to hire quickly, ensure candidate happiness, and communicate globally. Xor answers candidate questions, guides applicants through the hiring process, and schedules interviews between candidates and managers. This frees up talent acquisition teams to focus on more strategic tasks. Xor boasts a 99% candidate happiness rating, demonstrating that candidates are increasingly willing to talk to an AI-powered chatbot.
3. Glider
Glider focuses on talent quality at each stage of the recruiting process, ensuring candidate skill, fit, and interest is at the core of all your organization’s hiring decisions. The platform engages potential candidates through AI-powered text outreach and can pre-screen potential candidates with an AI-guided phone call. Glider also incorporates powerful AI-proctored skills tests to evaluate both tech and non-tech competencies. Finally, there’s an incorporated platform for live or pre-recorded interviews.
4. Fetcher
Fetcher is an AI-based talent recruitment software that offers end-to-end support so that your recruitment staff is free to focus on candidate experience. Fetcher integrates with all your existing tech stack like your ATS, Gmail, Slack, LinkedIn, etc. Fetcher supports smart talent sourcing by using advanced AI technology and a team of experts to source high-quality candidate profiles that match your hiring requirements. The system learns which candidates you select as a good fit and remembers, helping you build a robust candidate pipeline. Fetcher also uses AI to automate the candidate engagement processes through curated and automated external email campaigns. The AI tracks responses and identifies the most interested candidates, jump starting your relationship with them.
5. Pymetrics
Pymetrics is a gamified skills assessment tool. It uses AI to assess critical soft skills such as cognitive, social, and emotional competencies. These soft skills determine attention, decision making, effort, focus, reasoning, etc. It uses data-driven behavioral insights and audited AI to create a more efficient, effective, and fair hiring process across the talent lifecycle.
6. Skillate
Skillate utilizes machine learning and AI to automate hiring and improve recruitment efficiency. Skillate starts with the job description, offering an AI-powered assistant that provides real-time feedback to recruiters on the quality of the job descriptions. Skillate also helps to better utilize an organization’s existing database of current and past candidates. The platform matches past candidates with the current opening on the basis of AI-backed scores.
Skillate’s AI-powered chatbot eliminates pre-screening calls and figures out additional information such as notice period, intent to relocate, salary expectations, etc. The chatbot also talks to the hiring manager to schedule interviews, eliminating time-consuming back-and-forth.
7. Arya
The last AI recruiting tool that might be interesting is Arya by Leoforce, an AI-powered recruitment software that uses “talent Intelligence” — a multidimensional approach that matches candidates to the right jobs. Talent Intelligence won the 2023 HR Tech awards for best comprehensive solution. Arya is built on multiple machine learning models to more accurately match jobs and relevant candidates. Arya claims to improve recruiter efficiency and decrease sourcing and shortlisting time by 50%.
Budget AI recruiting tools
ChatGPT. One way that ChatGPT can be utilized as talent acquisition software is through writing Boolean search operators. A recruiter can easily prompt ChatGPT to create a unique Boolean search string for any job description. Then, they’d simply feed it the job description and presto.
Recruitin.net is another free AI software that can help a recruiter carry out searches efficiently. Recruiters employ this user-friendly software to input specific parameters like keywords. Recruitin.net will then automatically generate search strings for candidate sourcing.
Job Descriptions with Merlin ChatGPT. Merlin ChatGPT is a free Google Chrome plug-in. Once installed, the Merlin plug-in appears in the top, right corner of any Google search results page. From there, the user can input a request such as “write a job description for a full-stack developer,” and Merlin will write the basic job description.
Don’t forget: Don’t just copy and paste! Always edit AI-generated content of any sort before publication. It's important that you closely review the description to ensure it is appropriate, reflects the position, and addresses DEIB concerns. There is a lot of bias in job descriptions — particularly in specific industries like tech. Edits ensure your descriptions are as inclusive as possible.
Set yourself apart with AI recruitment software
Integrating AI into your talent recruitment is a huge leap forward. It will set your organization apart from other organizations searching for top talent. Rather than remove humans from the process, AI seeks to streamline time-consuming tasks so that hiring managers can spend more time with candidates. AI also offers the potential to save money by reducing hiring times and increasing efficiency. There are AI solutions available for all budgets and organizations of all sizes from small to multinational enterprises. Incorporating AI into your recruitment process is no longer a question of “if,” but “when.”
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