Ever looked for a job? The process has arguably improved over the years, but we can still do better! Generic rejection emails (or a complete lack thereof), undecipherable job descriptions, selection criteria impossible to address while retaining one’s sanity – all of that could be improved if recruiters got help from a dedicated AI assistant.
The idea
Create an AI assistant tailored to recruitment duties. It would be differentiated from current offerings by an emphasis on politeness.
While LLMs are typically very polite in the way they communicate, AI assistants typically have little agency, and are only as polite as the human user requires them to be. I.e., they would produce a very tactfully worded rejection message, but it would still be generic. They would write an excellent job description, but it would still tell very little about what the job actually entails. They would write up selection criteria that make sense, when in fact it would make more sense to not have them at all.
Unless an extra step is taken.
I propose this extra step: tailor recruitment-related communications to context, which could mean:
- Tailor rejection message based on the applicant’s CV (explaining the mismatch between the skills and the job description) and other aspects of the situation (how many people applied in total, what other applicants turned out to be surprisingly good at, etc.) This could not only make the applicant feel better, but also provide valuable data for future applications, and make their upskilling journey more effective and efficient.
- Make the AI assistant an ethnographer: feed it the company’s comms and work processes so that it can produce job descriptions that reflect the actual work being done.
- Don’t just command – discuss. Let AI participate in discussions and give recommendations based on world’s best practices applied to each particular workplace.
Call to action
This is a ready-made concept for an AI startup. Alternatively, this framework can be introduced as a feature set in an existing product.
Submitted by: Ilia Leikin
Hashtags: #AI #Hiring #HR #Recruitment
Looking for: startup team to take on the project, company to include this philosophy into an existing product
I can: brainstorm, help testing prototypes
Status: newly submitted
