What is AI for recruiting?

AI recruitment software also leverages the wealth of data in your ATS to generate insights into your talent pool. Artificial intelligence can help recruiters with blind screening for reduced bias, as well as visibility into past successful candidates that have remained at the organization. For example, software that applies machine learning to resumes to auto-screen […]

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Ministers signal ‘light touch’ regulation of AI in the UK

Artificial intelligence will be subject to tighter regulation in the UK in future, the government has signalled. The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy this week distributed a paper setting out pastors’ reasoning on attempting to adjust the need to embrace the innovation and use it for upper hand and the hazards of shamefulness, […]

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AI recruitment systems to be investigated over discrimination worries

The UK privacy watchdog is set to probe whether employers using artificial intelligence in their recruitment systems could be discriminating against ethnic minorities and people with disabilities. John Edwards, the data magistrate, has reported plans for an investigation into the mechanized frameworks that screen work applicants, including taking a gander at bosses’ assessment methods and […]

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The risks of sexual harassment in the metaverse

The metaverse could fundamentally change how we interact with each other at work. However, a workplace in the metaverse poses certain risks to employers trying to monitor and discipline employees. Sanika Karandikar explores how employers can mitigate risks of sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace. The metaverse is basically a 3D, virtual world, where […]

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White-hot recruitment market? William Tincup talks to Oven-Ready HR

In this week’s Oven-Ready podcast Chris Taylor talks to William Tincup about whether the recruitment market is as hot as we’re led to believe and whether there is such a thing as work-life balance. William Tincup is the president and manager on the loose of Recruiting Daily. He is at the convergence of work and […]

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CIPD Festival of Work: ‘AI can help us work better and faster’

Artificial intelligence will determine where, when and how organisations access talent in the future, but it will be up to human teams to exploit its potential. This was the determination of Dr Ayesha Khanna, fellow benefactor of counseling business ADDO AI, talking at the current year’s CIPD Festival of Work this week. Dr Khanna illustrated […]

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How HR can mitigate the risks and reap the rewards of AI at work

Artificial intelligence technology has its uses at every stage of the employment relationship and is increasingly relied on by time-poor human resources teams. However, if not used carefully and transparently, employers are at risk of being at the sharp end of employment claims they may struggle to defend. Sanika Karandikar and Raoul Parekh offer guidance […]

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Reputation management: how to handle employees’ tweets

In light of the recent case that saw an Australian government employee dismissed after posting tweets that criticised the country’s immigration policy, Rhys Wyborn offers some advice on how to handle social media posts that might bring reputational damage. Virtual entertainment has become such an enormous piece of individuals’ lives that many forget what they […]

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Google releases strict guidelines on employee communications

Google has released new workplace guidelines urging staff not to insult one another or make misleading comments about the company. The rules urge staff to cease from “disturbing the working day to have a seething discussion over governmental issues or the most recent report”. While conveying, they ought to follow the three Google upsides of […]

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Should smartphones be banned in the workplace?

Allowing smartphones at work can affect productivity, but is an outright ban the answer? Beverley Sunderland looks at how a carefully constructed smartphone policy can balance an employers’ desire to reduce distractions with employees’ need to feel connected with family and friends. A report in The Times as of late portrayed seizing cell phones as […]

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