AI in recruitment: Levelling the playing field or entrenching bias? Opinion AI in recruitment aims to reduce hiring biases and streamline candidate selection. But do these tools truly make hiring fairer, or are they reinforcing hidden biases? Asks Paul Armstrong The AI hiring wave has arrived, promising to tidy up recruitment’s inefficiencies with sleek algorithms and predictive analytics. Job descriptions are optimised for clicks, CVs sifted [...]
Hays results ‘lay bare’ UK recruitment crisis Business Recent results from the UK’s leading recruitment firms have been, quite frankly, dismal: profit has collapsed across the board as firms struggle to stay afloat amid a sharp downturn in the market. The sector boomed in 2020 after the tech sector led to a surge in hiring, and increases in wage offers helped attract new [...]
Pagegroup slashes more roles as recruiter feels the pain of slow rebound Business Pagegroup said that tighter recruitment budgets have led to companies becoming more risk averse to new hires, which has slowed the recruitment process.