AI to help India recruiters to eliminate bias, pace up process

As artificial intelligence (AI) is entering all office systems, nearly 50 per cent of recruiters believe that it will become a regular part of their hiring process in the coming years, said a report by chat-based direct hiring platform Hirect.

A whopping 96.5 per cent of recruiters at Indian startups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in India believe that the use of AI will improve the recruitment process and eliminate bias from the hiring process, said the report released on Tuesday.

And 52 per cent of the recruiters said building a diverse workforce is necessary to address the huge disparity in the representation of women in leadership roles, 97.4 per cent of them believe that skill-based hiring is the future and necessary and 87 per cent of recruiters are “in favour of retaining old employees instead of hiring new ones.”

“In the employee-driven market, the employers must quickly adapt to the current reality of talent acquisition to remain competitive in today’s labour market,” said Raj Das, Global Co-founder and CEO of Hirect India.

The startups often rely on referrals and that is why startups formulate referral policies and around 88.2 per cent of recruiters believe that referral is the best way to hire people with the right talents, added the report.