A comedian and writer says he turned down a job interview after learning the questions would be coming from Artificial Intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n
Richard Stott, from Beverley, East Yorkshire, said he had applied for a freelance copywriting role but turned down the interview after he was told it would be “led by AI”.<\/p>\n
“It didn’t sit well so I told them if interviewing in person wasn’t worth their time then the role wasn’t worth mine and I left it,” he said.<\/p>\n
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said employers need to “strike the right balance between AI and human interaction when hiring”.<\/p>\n
Mr Stott, who is a freelancer, voiced his concerns about the AI interview on social media and said he received “unanimous support” from people saying it was “not a good idea”.<\/p>\n
“It felt disrespectful that they weren’t willing to put time into speaking to candidates,” he added.<\/p>\n
“When you’re going into a company or team personality is important and you can’t quantify that in data, so to have AI remove that seems counterintuitive.”<\/p>\n
Despite this, Mr Stott said AI “can be fantastic” when used correctly, such as taking away jobs that are laborious.<\/p>\n
“Not everyone can turn down a job interview but if they’re using AI and enough of us say no then it won’t take off,” he added.<\/p>\n
Luke Bottomley, 37, director at James Ray Recruitment in East Yorkshire, said AI was becoming “increasingly important”.<\/p>\n
“I think AI will be something that needs to be integrated into business or they will be left behind.<\/p>\n
“It’s on a one-way train at the moment and everyone needs to be looking at it.<\/p>\n
“That said, when it comes to the human element, I don’t think it will be replaced.”<\/p>\n
Mr Bottomley explained that using AI for job applications would mean that businesses “will miss out on potentially exceptional candidates”.<\/p>\n
“Having a one-to-one interview gives the chance to know an individual and what they can bring to a role, you can’t get that through a robot,” he added.<\/p>\n
Hayfa Mohdzaini, senior technology adviser at CIPD, which is the professional body for HR and people development, said: “Employers need to strike the right balance between AI and human interaction when hiring and consider candidate preferences so that they don’t miss out on great talent.<\/p>\n
“While an AI chatbot might be a cost-effective option for an employer, it might put off some candidates from applying.<\/p>\n
“Employers should tell candidates upfront when AI will be used and explain how it will benefit them.”<\/p>\n
Additional reporting by Richard Madden and Eleanor Maslin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A comedian and writer says he turned down a job interview after learning the questions would be coming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-262695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}