Welcome to Episode 37 of the Cloud Wars Horizon Minute — featuring news and commentary hosted by Acceleration Economy analyst Tom Smith. Each episode provides insights into one or more Innovation Accelerators on the Cloud Wars Horizon. This episode touches on impress.ai and the ways it applies AI-driven automation to the recruitment of people, for efficiency and scalability.
Highlights
00:50 — impress.ai is extending the concept of converting prospects in the funnel to the employee recruitment process.
01:30 — The company aims to make recruiting more efficient by focusing recruiters more on the high-level tasks they’re capable of, while leaving repetitive and routine tasks to AI-powered automation.
01:50 — They want to ensure candidates have a great experience with the brand so that the truly compelling ones don’t get lost in the HR shuffle — and that they’re advancing in the funnel.
02:50 —If the candidate is satisfied, they can upload their resume, answer relevant screening questions about qualifications, and so on. If the candidate clears the screening process, they are asked to take an assessment to determine how well they align with the job requirements based on scoring performed by impress.ai.
03:00 — Early customers say they’ve cut loads of time from their screening process and gotten good feedback from candidates.
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