AI in recruiting

Instant Cover Letter: My daughter tried this one and was impressed enough to tell me about it. Writing a cover letter has always been the most painful part of a job search for her, but now she can churn out dozens of applications quickly with no stress.

The way it works is you upload a PDF resumé, copy/paste the job description, and the site will generate an appropriate cover letter. It is free in beta version.

On the other hand, will her resumés actually make it to a human? Several startups are offering AI products to speed up the process of resumé reading.

SortResume.ai does that for HR/recruiters. It reads resumés and sorts them based on criteria provided by the recruiter. It is free for up to 10 resumés/month, or costs $120/month for up to 100 resumés.

In China, some recruiters are delegating the interviews to AI avatars.

MoSeeker, a Chinese AI recruitment system provider, performs hundreds of thousands of automated interviews each year, and lists multinationals including Disney and Mars among its clients.

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 A 2023 survey of 1,000 human-resources workers by the U.S. firm ResumeBuilder found that 10% of companies were already using AI in the hiring process, and another 30% planned to start the following year. The research firm Gartner listed natural-language chatbots as one of 2023’s key innovations for the recruiting industry, designating the technology as experimental but promising.