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    AI and HR: transforming recruitment

    Generative AI is reshaping recruitment: sourcing, interviews and assessment. Opportunities, risks to watch and a framework for responsible deployment.

    A recruiter conducts a person-to-person interview with a female candidate following assisted shortlisting

    Recruitment is one of the areas where generative AI is advancing fastest — and where legal and ethical risks are highest. Between dramatic efficiency gains and documented algorithmic biases, HR directors need to proceed methodically.

    Here is an overview of the uses genuinely transforming recruitment, together with the essential safeguards for avoiding pitfalls.

    Sourcing and shortlisting: substantial time savings

    Generative AI helps write inclusive job adverts, identify profiles on LinkedIn and personalise outreach messages at scale. In shortlisting, it can summarise a CV, extract key skills or prepare targeted interview questions.

    The time savings are real — often 30 to 50% on administrative tasks. But caution is needed: AI must assist recruiters, not decide for them. Automated screening without human oversight falls under the EU AI Act’s ‘high-risk’ regime.

    Interviews: preparation, simulation and debriefing

    A recruiter can ask AI to generate questions tailored to a role, simulate a candidate’s answers for practice or summarise an interview report from raw notes. These uses remain under human control and do not affect the final decision.

    By contrast, automated analysis of video interviews — facial expressions or tone of voice — is not recommended: it involves documented biases, weak scientific reliability and high legal exposure.

    Algorithmic bias: the number one risk

    AI models reproduce the biases present in their training data. A CV-scoring tool trained on past recruitment at a predominantly male company will mechanically reproduce that imbalance.

    The response is to audit the tools used regularly, test results on diverse profiles and consistently maintain informed human decision-making. Transparency with candidates about AI use is also becoming an expected good practice.

    Training recruiters in responsible use

    AI literacy is even more critical in recruitment than elsewhere: recruiters handle sensitive data and make decisions that affect people. A dedicated training programme must cover authorised uses, biases to identify, the GDPR framework and transparency obligations.

    Investing in this training protects the business, safeguards candidates and strengthens professional practice in a function undergoing profound change.

    Conclusion

    Generative AI can transform recruitment into a faster, fairer and more human-centred function — provided it is deployed methodically and with safeguards. This is a strategic undertaking for HR directors in 2026.

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    Further reading

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    Professional training: a strategic lever for employee retention

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    Regulation

    EU AI Act: what businesses need to know in 2026

    The EU’s AI regulation comes fully into application. An overview of the obligations and a roadmap for compliance.