{"id":817885,"date":"2026-07-23T03:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T03:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817885\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T03:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T03:08:24","slug":"kmarts-blind-ai-tool-cuts-hiring-time-and-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817885\/","title":{"rendered":"Kmart&#8217;s &#8216;blind&#8217; AI tool cuts hiring time and costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is not an applicant tracking system or recruitment system, it&#8217;s a hiring assessment tool,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/technology\/kmart-ditches-cvs-for-ai-chatbot-to-cut-its-hiring-time-by-75-per-cent\/news-story\/6d0fc484c2d0884eb6b4cad00f3bda48\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">he told the news outlet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t ask people to provide a CV, that&#8217;s the first bit. It&#8217;s a blind tool, so it doesn&#8217;t talk to the hiring managers and the recruiters about their age, their gender, their background, etc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Gray, the tool is of &#8220;tremendous value&#8221; to the discount chain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve probably saved $5m to $6m over the last three years, but secondly, it&#8217;s actually improved our relationship with candidates and candidate experience, and all those candidates are customers at the end of the day,&#8221; Gray added.<\/p>\n<p>It also cut the hiring time at the firm from 44 days to 11.8 days, and allowed the company to assess all the job applications it receives, which is about 600,000 a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;This is not an applicant tracking system or recruitment system, it&#8217;s a hiring assessment tool,&#8221; he told the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,393584,393583,254,255,64,63,5449,105],"class_list":["post-817885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-hiring-tool","tag-ai-in-recruitment","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-human-resources","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817885","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=817885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}