Filling a senior-level vacancy in 48 hours sounds too good to be true, but that’s what AI-enabled recruitment platform Vervoe claims to have done when it appointed a new VP of sales in February. Using its own 10-question assessment of key skills, the Melbourne-based firm believes that it secured the best candidate in the most efficient way.
But is speed really that important when it comes to hiring? Efficiency doesn’t necessarily translate to effectiveness, after all. Is a great candidate always someone with all the requisite skills, or is the AI-dependent recruiter missing out on vital elements of a good employee by disregarding some of the key factors – cultural fit, for instance – that the algorithms can’t rate?