Artificial intelligence begins to dominate workplace interview screening

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence technology and the proliferation of the COVID-19 virus pneumonia Epidemic have contributed to the recruitment industry’s stride toward artificial intelligence.

Many large companies, including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, have begun using AI interviewing software to cull hiring interview candidates and complete the initial hiring process.

The AI recruiting software that hiring managers in HR departments now like to use is called one-way video interview, or asynchronous video interview (AVI). Job seekers do not see the recruiter, but are asked to face a computer camera in a given Time to answer questions; artificial intelligence software to record the answers and answers of the applicant’s facial expressions, body movements, comprehensive analysis of the score.

In an interview with CBC English Radio, a representative of VidCruiter, a computerized video recruiting platform based in Montreal, Canada, said that 99 percent of the company’s revenue in previous years came from the international market, but the number of customers in Canada has soared over the past three years, with the federal government, universities, large companies and even major media outlets like the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation becoming users of their company’s artificial intelligence recruiting software.

The main benefits of the AI recruiting software are that candidates are interviewed online at their own Home and at a time of their choosing, which saves a great deal of labor, time and travel costs; that questions are answered within a time limit so that candidates must give answers in a concise manner; and that this method of recruitment screening greatly reduces the risk of transmission in the event of a COVID-19 virus pneumonia outbreak.

However, critics of AI hiring methods point out that such software, which uses one-way interview footage as the basis for AI analysis and scoring of job applicants, can suffer from a lack of fairness, a lack of protection of personal privacy, and make job applicants unnecessarily nervous in front of the camera.

To solve the problem of nervousness in front of the interview camera, some consulting companies have launched job video interview training courses.

Experts offer advice to job seekers preparing for a one-way video interview to dress formally, keep a smile on their face, look directly at the camera when speaking, use hand gestures, present a simple neutral tone in the background behind them, and so on.