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Balancing Progress and People: Navigating the AI and automation adoption dilemma in recruitment

There is no growth in recruitment without adopting new technology – and recently, AI has been at the forefront of most recruiters’ minds. 79% of industry professionals believe that AI will soon be sophisticated enough to make full hiring decisions – which poses a threat to recruiters all over. AI and automation will displace people; the only question is how that will impact your recruitment agency?

There is no denying that artificial intelligence can significantly improve your team’s efficiency and effectiveness, helping you save time and resources and focus on what matters most. However, balancing the adoption of the newest technologies and pushing your recruiters to be their best is a fine line – so we’re here to help.

Read on to understand:

How to balance AI technology with people

How to automate administrative elements of your work

How to streamline your processes with AI 

How to automate processes with AI & automation 

Review the process of matching candidates with jobs
Automate your job advert posting
Speed up your communications 
The key aspect of implementing AI into your agency is improving efficiency and being able to handle a bigger workload, not replacing the essential human element of recruitment. By reducing the administrative tasks you can make recruiters more efficient by giving them more time to build human relationships.
But having AI within your software is not enough. AI & automation need to be embedded into your processes.

Identifying how AI & automation can streamline your processes 

One of my favourite Firefish features is the AI. You're not only able to generate content with a few clicks, but also format CVs and write recruitment summaries with minimal effort, too. 

So whereas before you would have to type and write your recruitment summary about the candidate, Firefish actually pulls through the data that's already on them from the CV and creates a candidate profile. And I'm yet to come across a bad one if I'm honest. 

Firefish does it all for you. It really speeds up the process. 
 
     
 
     
 
     
Putting data at the heart of your
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Forecasts suggest that 30% of all jobs will be automated  by 2030, but as agency leaders, there are two paths that you can follow as these advances start to make an impact. Either you choose to do the same with less and become more profitable by reducing cost, or you redeploy talent to drive your business forward and increase profits by accelerating growth. 

Finding a balance between AI & automation and people

1. Identify the areas where work can be automated

3. Move people to do more productive jobs while AI does the rest

2. Explore the skillsets of your employees that could be redeployed

Using AI & automation to optimise your agency management

Whilst your expertise is invaluable when running an agency, AI can help you make more data-driven decisions and speed up the growth of your business.

But for it to work, you need to embed the technology into your core processes. By doing so you will generate the data that can propel your agency to grow.