Earlier today we hosted a RecHangout with the title of Can algorithm do a better job of matching the right candidates with the right jobs? This is a regular show we do hosted by Alan Whitford (RCEuro / Abtech Partnership), Louis Welcomme (Colleague Software)and Mark Stephens (Smart Recruit Online). Our guests were
Jakub Zavrel, owner of semantic recruitment technology business, Textkernel
Dr Gorkan Ahmetoglu, Lecturer of Business Psychology at University College London and principle at Meta Profiling Ltd
Darshana Narayanan, Head of Research at Pymetrics.
It was a really great show with some super smart guests.
You can watch the show here:
Here are some blogs which I think nicely back up and continue on from some of the points discussed:
What Works by Iris Bohnet is a good book for de-biasing organizations, using design
Man vs. machine: Did recruitment technology lose its humanity?
Recruitment technology: can the human in HR ever be replaced?
Why Recruiters Should be Replaced by Robots
The rise of the machines……in recruitment? One from our own blog
Can an Algorithm Hire Better Than a Human?
Unconscious bias and ‘Name-Blind’ Recruitment
Machines Or Humans — Who Will Win The Battle For The Future Of Recruiting?
Can you replace a recruiter with an algorithm? From Matt Alder’s blog in 2014
Rise of the Machines: 3 Reasons Why AI is the Future of Recruiting – LinkedIn article with over 60 comments which are worth browsing too
Digital Staffing: The Future of Recruitment-by-Algorithm – written in 2012 but interesting nevertheless
In Business: Recruiting by Algorithm – Podcast of a Radio 4 programme
To end I’ll paraphrase from our show wrap up… “Can algorithms do it better than recruiters? That’s the wrong question -it should be what kind of tools can recruiters use to make them work better and improve the candidate experience”. I don’t think we are going anywhere just yet but it’s probably not too sensationalist to say embrace the tech or die!
Our next hangout will be in August and details will be here soon.
Good wrap up Louise. And nice paraphrase of Jakub’s closing remarks, which were echoed by both Gordan and Darshana.