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AI enabling more hirers to meet candidates' expectations

"Phenomenal" growth in on-demand interviewing suggests a major shift in the way talent wants to engage with employers during the hiring process; meanwhile it's time for automation to shed its "cold" image, leaders in the recruitment tech space say.

Candidate drop-off is one of the biggest recruitment problems in Australia at the moment, HireVue CEO Anthony Reynolds tells Shortlist.

"What our research would say is roughly 63% of candidates drop out because they don't feel engaged in the process," he says. Specifically, they self-select out because they don't feel the communication mechanism or modes align with their preferences.

And this is a big issue, he says, because "the hiring process is now a precursor or foreshadowing what they think their experience will be like with their new employer"...