Businesses worldwide are embracing automation to dedicate their valuable time to making strategic decisions otherwise spent on mundane manual administrative tasks. ChatGPT is an enabler in this regard which has spread its influence across industries and business processes, including recruitment.

How ChatGPT Can Improve the Hiring Process?

Technology paves the way for innovation, which makes our lives simpler. Artificial Intelligence, AI-based tools are the future. One such innovation is – ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot that has transformed how businesses function.

While ChatGPT has influenced several business areas, it plays a significant role in improving the hiring process across industries.

In this article, we delve into what ChatGPT is and how it improves the hiring process.

What is ChatGPT?

Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT is a very interesting new AI-enabled chatbot developed by an organization, OpenAI. Regarded as a next-gen AI chatbot, ChatGPT responds to your queries in a much more realistic and human-like manner. All you need to do is just type in your queries, and the chatbot finds the answer from its robust database to respond in just a few minutes. 

While ChatGPT finds its applications across business functions, it plays a pivotal role in improving the hiring process.

How can ChatGPT improve the hiring process?

ChatGPT holds the potential to optimize the hiring process in multiple ways, some of which include:

Create candidate assessments

Depending on the sector, job role, and domain you are hiring for, you can just type in the question for interviews or assessments of candidates. For example, just typing something like “Create a list of 10  HR interview questions for a software developer in finance domain…” could fetch you the questions. 

Likewise, recruiters and hiring managers can prepare assessments conveniently for various job roles across business functions. This greatly reduces the administrative workload and helps them focus on other vital business goals.

Simplifies Candidate Search

Searching for candidates from a large database could seem daunting to recruiters. However, if they use applicant tracking software, they might use the boolean strings to fetch results. In that case, ChatGPT is capable of writing the boolean search strings for you, thus making your life easier.

Creating email templates, advertisements, and job descriptions

Recruiters must spend so much time creating email templates, drafting advertisements, and designing job descriptions. ChatGPT handles all these tasks efficiently, thereby reducing the workload on the recruiters considerably. 

Improves Candidate Experience

Quite often, candidates leave the recruiting process midway due to a lack of proper communication from recruiters. Furthermore, with loads of applications to handle, recruiters don’t have the time to send out a response to each candidate. ChatGPT comes to the rescue. It lets recruiters draft personalized messages and emails instantly, thereby automating communication with a human touch.

Conclusion

ChatGPT holds vast potential to revolutionize the hiring process across industry verticals. From creating candidate assessments and drafting job descriptions to automating communication and enhancing the candidate experience. With ChatGPT performing these manual administrative tasks, you can improve your HR department while allowing recruiters and hiring managers to shift their focus to more strategic objectives.

About the Author

BCjobs.ca is Western Canada’s largest job board, and host of “Innovators” a weekly podcast interviewing top recruiters in BC and across Canada. Check out our recent interview with Inga Jonsdottir, Engineering Manager at Wealthsimple (Podcast link) and DataDome’s Chief Marketing Officer, Aurelie Guerierri (Podcast link).