Ray Smith

Several recruiters and career consultants that I talked with told me some of the best things to do is to act as if you are being interviewed by a human.

Like, for instance, the eye contact thing.

They said that although these hiring platforms may not be grading you or scoring you on eye contact, it's just really important that you maintain eye contact with the camera.

And it's for several reasons.

It's A, so that your eyes are focused and so you look focused, but also you just lessen the chance that the AI may think you are looking at notes or reading notes or cheating with some chat GPT.

Another way to prepare is just like pretending that you're going through the process, meaning recording yourself as if you were actually being interviewed, but doing it several times so that you feel...

comfortable doing it when you're actually live.

Some other tips that they gave were to remember not to try to talk in a robotic way, like the way I'm doing now, like because you think that this is what the algorithm wants.

It's like try to speak as naturally as you can, even in this unnatural environment.

So those were some of the tips that they were giving.

Yes.

That's a real fear out there that people don't think that's far-fetched.

And it has people wondering, you know, how far should we go with this?

And so what you're hearing a lot more now in HR circles is,

is this idea of AI plus HI, which is artificial intelligence plus human intelligence.

And maybe it's the HR folks just trying to save their jobs, but they're talking about human intelligence is needed in this process at some point in the process.

And it's because AI can make mistakes.

And so there's a lot of talk that humans should not be totally removed from the hiring decision, that AI shouldn't take it all over.

But there is some fear that AI will.

And again, it goes back to the efficiency argument that it just takes less time and you can do this faster and you can get to what you actually want quicker with these objective assessments.