Online Education Platforms

The future of talent acquisition looks very different.

Recruitment has changed since the 1990s, when many people viewed it as a salesperson’s role or something that a person just fell into when job searching. Now people are leaving college with the intention of becoming recruiters.

AI and automation will thrust recruitment into completely new territory. Some are suspicious of the upcoming changes, but algorithms will be better at connecting the right people with the right job in the right company. Human hiring managers are more likely to choose a candidate due to simple rapport or because the candidate went to the same school or likes the same sports team as the interviewer. Algorithms won’t make those mistakes.

Modern recruitment processes involve around 80 steps, and the process isn’t getting any simpler. As the pace of change grows, recruiters will need to focus on higher cognitive skills, like those involved in drafting job descriptions or connecting with candidates personally, rather than the easily automated tasks like posting jobs, sourcing candidates, coordinating interviews and the early stages of rejecting candidates. The...