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Time of India
9 hours ago
- Business
- Time of India
(AI)gorithm turns recruiter
Vidya, a software engineer for over 14 years and in her late thirties, was looking to switch her job earlier this year. When she applied to India's second-largest software services company, Infosys , one of her four rounds of interview was with an AI-chatbot. 'A male voice command asked me about myself and 8–10 techno-functional and managerial questions, along with subtitles. The interview was through an online link and lasted around 15 minutes. It was interesting to see a computer-based questioning. I felt more confident,' said Vidya, whose resume was also shortlisted through AI. ETtech When she finally landed the coveted job, Vidya was among the thousands of engineers and developers being interviewed by AI as part of the latest next-gen recruitment process at India's top software service providers. ETtech As per numbers, IT firms are hiring tens of thousands annually, relying on AI for 70–80% of initial screenings. Just at the two top IT service providers—HCLTech and Wipro, AI is assisting to shortlist and interview around 55,000 candidates for entry and mid-level positions. Not just HCLTech and Wipro but all companies are using AI prolifically and the numbers are only increasing. ETtech Discover the stories of your interest Blockchain 5 Stories Cyber-safety 7 Stories Fintech 9 Stories E-comm 9 Stories ML 8 Stories Edtech 6 Stories Infosys chief human resource officer Shaji Mathew said the company is using AI in its HR processes, covering the entire hire-to-retire cycle. 'AI enables us to dynamically map candidates to panelists, trigger interviews on the fly, and even leverage facial recognition algorithms in our interview tool,' Mathew said without sharing specific numbers. Infosys uses an AI-based facial recognition process that compares images from interviews and induction to prevent impersonation on Day 1. HCLTech is using AI to reimagine how the company attracts, assesses, and hires talent through its proprietary AI-backed platform, said its chief people officer Ramachandran Sundararajan. The firm uses the platform across all levels in their projects and programs. 'A group of AI agents augment our internal and external staffing teams to enhance job descriptions, determine the skill and competency evaluation expectations for candidate assessment, screen CVs to help shortlist, assist our technical panels in interviews and provide a second opinion of the candidate for the job,' Sundararajan said. To date, AI has helped in screening and processing over 45,000 open positions at HCLTech. Neeti Sharma, CEO of Teamlease Digital said, AI is helping save recruiters approximately 23 hours weekly. 'While exact numbers of AI-driven hires are hard to pin down, IT firms hiring tens of thousands annually rely on AI for 70–80% of initial screenings, with AI-led processes boosting interview success rates by 53%.' Meanwhile, conversational AI is still in an exploratory stage and is being used for 15–20% of their total hiring, Sharma adds. Sanjeev Jain, COO of Wipro says it has initiated AI pilots from April at key stages—from initial resume screening and first-level interviews to communication assessments, background checks, onboarding, and even simulations for client interviews. This, according to him, not only helps optimise time and costs but also subconscious bias at early stages. 'Most importantly, it allows us to onboard and deploy talent on client projects faster, ensuring we stay agile and responsive to business needs. As we continue to evolve our talent strategy, AI will remain a critical enabler,' Jain added. ETtech Outsourcing majors, including TCS, Tech Mahindra and others are also using AI for their recruitment process. Companies are using AI to filter and rank the top profiles, for intelligent screening and skill-based assessments, significantly reducing manual screening time and doing video interviews powered by behavioural and sentiment analysis. They are also using predictive analytics to assess how well a candidate aligns with past successful hires in similar roles thereby improving the quality and consistency of hiring decisions. However, Vidya felt that she was lucky to have got through. 'One concern was the English, and even the database test was difficult to understand initially. I also was not sure if they could absorb or recognise my accent or language, because the follow-up questions at times were not linked.' Richard Lobo, chief people officer at Mahindra Group subsidiary Tech Mahindra, India's fifth largest IT firm said, 'We believe that AI is not here to replace human judgment but to refine and elevate it—especially in recruitment, where precision and speed are critical…We are continuously investing in rebuilding our training infrastructure.'
Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
RFK Jr. Swaps Made-Up Studies in His Report for More Made-Up Studies
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s error-laden Make America Healthy Again report was updated Friday to remove citations to several non-existent studies—as well as some perfectly real ones—and replace them with citations that still make no sense, NOTUS reported. A NOTUS investigation published Thursday found that Kennedy's report taking aim at childhood vaccines, ultraprocessed foods, and pesticides listed studies that authors said were either misinterpreted or had never even occurred, leaving artificial intelligence researchers partially blaming AI for the errors. Several studies cited in the original report identified by NOTUS as nonexistent were all replaced Friday, as well as some studies with which NOTUS had not identified any issues. But in some cases, the replacements weren't much better. One study that the original report cited to support the claim that psychotherapy was a better treatment for children experiencing mental health issues than medication was replaced by another 'systemic overview' by Pim Cuijpers, a widely referenced psychologist in Amsterdam. But Cuijpers told NOTUS that his study covered the use of psychiatric medication in adults, not children. The two 'cannot be compared, and this reference is therefore not usable in adolescents,' Cuijpers wrote in an email to NOTUS. He also noted that there was no evidence to support the report's claim that psychotherapy was more effective than antidepressants for adolescents. This wasn't the only detail that undermined the report's arguments that American children were over-medicated. Cuijpers pointed out to NOTUS that the report's claim that 'antidepressant prescription rates in teens increased by 14-fold between 1987 and 2014' was a little less convincing considering that antidepressants were only developed in the late 1980s. 'So it can also be said that these drugs were simply used for the adolescents who could benefit from them,' Cuijpers told NOTUS. Another faulty citation attributing work to the incorrect authors was fixed, NOTUS reported, but the new study cited also failed to support the claim that 'since the 1970s, recess and physical education (PE) have steadily declined.' Yet another incorrect citation referred to pulmonologist Harold J. Farber, but didn't cite an actual paper he'd worked on to support the claim that 'an estimated 25-40% of mild cases' of asthma were overprescribed drugs. The new citation referred to Farber's actual study, which had been about a Medicaid-managed care program study in Texas, but Farber told NOTUS that the notion that those results applied to the general population required a 'tremendous leap of faith.' After the initial NOTUS report, so many changes were made to the documents to remove evidence of AI-chatbot handiwork that White House officials stopped denoting changes to the document, and deleted references to prior corrections, NOTUS reported.
