‘Completely horrible’: UK job hunters share frustration with AI interviews
TL;DR
People describe awkward and unnatural process as survey finds nearly half of job seekers have been interviewed by AI Nearly half (47%) of UK job seekers have had an AI interview, research from the hiring platform Greenhouse has found. In its survey of 2,950 active job seekers, including 1,132 UK-based workers, with additional respondents from the US, Germany, Australia and Ireland, it found that 30% of UK candidates had walked away from a hiring process because it included an AI interview. Continue reading...
Nauti's Take
Upside: AI interviews ease the HR workload and can reduce bias through standardized questions — a clear efficiency lever in recruiting. The catch: with 30 percent of UK candidates walking away, companies lose exactly the talent that finds a human touch elsewhere.
Anyone using AI interviews should treat them as a first-stage filter, not a replacement for the real conversation. Otherwise efficiency costs more hires than it saves.
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