Are AI-assisted interviews the future of hiring?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has already entered almost every aspect of our lives. Particularly in the workplace, AI is being integrated in various ways through new and evolving approaches. Globally, from screening job resumes to conducting final interviews, AI is increasingly playing a role at every stage of the recruitment process.

Recruiters receive hundreds or thousands of applications, and this process often takes a long period of time. Traditional hiring has always been time-consuming, biased, and inefficient in some ways, and this has paved the way for AI-assisted hiring tools, especially interviews.

In AI-assisted interviews, a software tool presents questions to a job candidate that they answer via text or video. AI technology may then support the interviewers by providing information such as talk time ratios, interview transcripts, and keyword analysis to assist assessments made by recruiters. In this scenario, the AI can interact with candidates live, via both phone calls and text messaging, posing questions and analyzing responses on the fly. But an important question remains: are AI-assisted interviews truly the future of hiring, especially in a country like Bangladesh?

Some of the progressive companies in Bangladesh are already trialing AI for recruitment, with a focus on screening and initial, non-human interviews.

This method helps recruiters quickly assess a candidate's suitability before moving on to more in-depth interviews with human interviewers.

AI-assisted interviews would be a part of the future hiring process in Bangladesh, but not the entire future. In that case, the most effective hiring model can be hybrid. AI would simply do the job of screening and efficiency, and humans would take care of the judgment, empathy, and final decisions.

In Bangladesh, where traditional recruitment systems struggle to keep up with a growing and evolving workforce, AI offers real potential to make hiring faster, fairer, and more skills focused.