Meet your new human resource executive: AI
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tech solving several challenges, mainly in recruiting. With multimodal capabilities,
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has become the new hiring assistant which can screen resumes, do a pre-hiring video chat and help candidates prep for interviews.
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GenAI has reduced companies' timeto-hire as it can now assess candidate fit considering both skill and non-skill factors (example, cultural fit). However, bias and ethics are some of the bugs which autonomous HR systems still struggle to overcome. ET's Himanshi Lohchab curates how GenAI is changing the recruitment process and tools
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