ChatGPT: How generative AI could change hiring as we know it

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Since November 2022, AI chatbot ChatGPT has enabled anyone with internet access to generate anything in the written form: think intricate essays and code, succinct memos or poetry..

Leveraging a dataset containing 570 billion individual words, OpenAIs ChatGPT can compose convincing cover letters on demand, or synthesise a few career details into a competent, bullet-pointed CV.Want to send an email to a hiring manager?.

Adam Nicoll, group marketing director at recruitment and job-consulting firm Randstad, based in Luton, UK, says time-poor hiring managers may be unlikely to distinguish between a cover letter written by a candidate and one generated by AI..

For instance, some large corporations are leveraging AI in the recruitment process to test job seekers qualities through skill- and personality assessments, which use data-driven behavioural insights to match candidates against vacancies and reveal their soft skills...

These kinds of emerging platforms that give recruiters more data on candidates stand to change the job-application process, too, especially as we move from degree certifications to skills-based hiring, says Weddle..