9 Ways AI Will Impact the HR Industry

Bridgette Hernandez is a Master in Anthropology who is interested in writing and planning to publish her own book in the nearest future. Now she had found herself as a freelance writer. Bridgette is a regular contributor to FlyWriting blog.  

Here Bridget discusses the ways in which AI technology will impact Human Resources… 

“There have been worries about technology taking up the jobs of humans. One technology that worries people is Artificial Intelligence, AI. There is a positive intention in AI. AI carries with it benefits that you need to know about, and that could help your company. What better way to find out by talking about how AI will reinvent the HR industry. You might be asking yourself how this is going to happen. Well, join us as we share some of the ways AI will do that.

Changing the Hiring Process

The hiring process is tedious, time-consuming, and expensive. Even as we talk about how AI will impact the HR industry, you will be surprised that some companies have started enjoying its benefits. How is this possible? These companies are using AI-powered tools to improve their system of hiring.  

Textio uses AI technology to assist hiring departments to create compelling job descriptions to attract the prospect employee. The company uses AI tools to improve previous job postings. Through such AI tools, the company fixes issues of wording, grammar, content, and format.

In a company, Montage, candidates schedule their interviews with HR thanks to AI. The companies, therefore, focus on other operation issues and schedule interviews with candidates at a time convenient to both sides.

Stella and Koru can now match candidates to relevant jobs with the help of AI. The company tracks credentials, qualities and capabilities recruiters and employees are looking for and recommend the relevant match for the job-seeking individual and the hiring company.

AI is making the job of recruiting easier. Mark Wells, a human resource manager at Top Writers Review says, “Hard work becomes easy when your work becomes your play. Never underestimate the value of recruiting.”

Eliminating Redundant Administrative Tasks

Sometimes companies spend a lot of time on HR activities and eat into the time meant to improve the financial performance of a company. Some HR activities, like scheduling meetings, canceling, and rescheduling, takes a lot of time and are quite repetitive and low value. With AI, companies like Pegasystems have automated such repetitive tasks. This means the company saves time used in carrying out these tasks allowing employees to focus their energies on weightier and high-value tasks. Several tools can help with such tasks.

• X.ai is an AI personal assistant tool that assists with administrative tasks like scheduling, canceling, and rescheduling meetings.
• AISense, a tool within Zoom, helps with tasks of transcribing, recording, and distributing of notes for meetings cutting on time spent doing all these manually.

Transforming Support and Internal Communications

Individuals in organisations that offer support to employees have demanding responsibilities to work on occasionally. Whereas a department like IT maintains company network and data security, HR needs to keep its employees satisfied with their workplace. Today, there are AI service desks like Spoke that balance responsibilities for employees reducing the interruptions from employee requests by offering prompt response to the employee. In a case where Spoke does not have an answer, it assigns your question to a relevant member of the organisation who gets back to you with a response. Spoke learns from the responses of support and solve future questions of the same kind.

Some organizations have employees that speak different languages. With AI-powered tools like Skype Translation, each party receives a translation of the other’s message, making communication easy.

Transforming Customer Service, Sales, and Marketing

When it comes to external communication, AI offers external support through AI-powered chatbots. What happens is that the chatbots learn from customer service, sales, and marketing persons. The chatbots go on to provide a response in the same manner as that of a professional in the areas mentioned above. An example of such a tool is the Kayak chatbot that helps clients to organise vacations.

Another tool is GrowthBot helps individuals mine information to marketing related questions. An example is whereby when you have a blog, you can identify your most popular blog posts without having to use tools like Google Analytics. You can also find Customer Relationship Management.

Improving Training and Onboarding

AI tools have made it easy to transfer skills from an existing employee to a new employee. AI coaching tools can do this by observing how various employees complete different employees. Chorus is an example of a tool that analyzes sales calls and offers tips that help salespersons manage sales meetings and deliver effective messaging.

Another tool is Cogito that analyses behaviors and offers adequate customer support. Cogito monitors voice and offers real-time suggestions to sales representatives to improve the conversation.

Enabling Problem Solving and Innovation

AI not only improves the workplace for employees but also offers problem-solving and innovation to employees in various sectors. An example is Watson used in multiple industries. Watson allows teachers to assess the learning styles and preferences of students and come up with more personalized learning plans. Watson, in the healthcare industry, offers oncologists impeccable tools to treat cancer patients. Watson analyzes large sets of data from cancer patients from multiple healthcare organisations and offers personalized healthcare, treatments, and recommendations to every patient.

Removing Biases

A survey by the HRPA, Human Resources Professional Association, claims that as employers strive to be inclusive, they might subconsciously lean to candidates that portray qualities that are most like them. Such biases end up in job descriptions and resume selection. AI algorithms can now help employers identify and remove bias patterns in language, therefore, improving hiring communications welcoming diverse applications. Tools offering HR infographics and templates about the diversity in your HR department can support analyzing inclusivity in the hiring process.

Developing Smarter Employees

Whereas the employees in organisations may be the best at what they do, there is a possibility that they do not have an understanding of the future behaviors of clients. Companies are using AI-powered tools to learn and predict customer behaviors to improve the intelligence of employees. This makes it easy for employees to juggle with trends and subconsciously predict always-developing customer preferences. Moreover, when you know what the consumers are looking for, companies will know the individual to hire to fit into such customer requirements.”

Supporting Decision Making
Apart from employer decision making, AI technology is supportive of employee decision making. AI tools like Watson, help employees know when to take vacations and improve their mood. Watson, for instance, can check your calls, and when done, recommend that you improve your mood given the tone with which you use to respond to your client.
From the above, it is clear that AI benefits the Human Resource industry by far. All your organisations can do is to analyze their HR needs and settle on an AI tool that handles their HR issues.