AI in Recruitment: What does it mean for recruiters and candidates?
You start the day with a double espresso, a full mailbox, and thirty new job applications. You know that somewhere among them might be the perfect candidate. But honestly? You don’t have time to comb through all those resumes and review them. You don’t have time to compare each profile with the relevant vacancy and manually search for similarities. And then you also have to type out a new vacancy with the key points you received from a client, phew…
But you do have a colleague who has time and is happy to make time for it. That colleague is called AI.
But what exactly does this digital assistant do in your recruitment process? And how do candidates notice it? We take you through the daily practice, with a look at how systems such as OTYS Go! use match criteria to save time and make better matches.
What do we actually mean by AI in recruitment?
Let’s leave the buzzwords aside for a moment. AI in recruitment is simply about software that learns from data. Think of systems that:
Automatically convert resumes into well-filled candidate profiles with match criteria
Job vacancy texts can be generated based on minimal input and completely rewritten in a different style
Extracting information from a complete candidate or job vacancy using an internal chat function
Automatically complete and update profiles in your ATS (match criteria) based on a resume
For candidates: an experience without on-hold music
At the forefront of the process, AI plays a role that you may not immediately see, but you can certainly feel.
Immediate response
Need to look up something about a candidate, vacancy, or customer? AI knows your entire ATS by heart. Just ask, and you’ll get an immediate answer. That saves you the trouble of searching for it yourself.
No wild west of vacancies
AI recognizes profiles, interests, and even application behavior. As a result, candidates don’t receive generic emails, but proposals that actually suit them. That means less frustration and more relevance.
Smarter matching
Thanks to pattern recognition and data analysis, AI sees things that humans sometimes miss. An unconventional resume? A hidden talent? Chances are AI will pick it up before you do.
For recruiters: search less, find more
Recruiters are not essentially CV filters or copywriters, yet that is often where most of their time is spent. Recruiters conduct meaningful conversations and give candidates personal attention. AI frees up more time for that.
- Automatic screening of candidates
- Keeping the database up to date
- Support during the writing process
- Time for real conversations
Why match criteria are more important than you think
Your database is bursting with potential matches if you know how to find them. And that’s where match criteria come in.
If candidate profiles in your ATS are not up to date, it becomes difficult to find the right person quickly. Often, there is gold in your own system, but without up-to-date information, it is of little use. The OTYS AI Assistant helps you with this in a smart way by automatically suggesting suitable match criteria based on a candidate’s resume and profile.
Example: Are you looking for someone in Utrecht? The Assistant automatically recognizes this in the profile and adds the match criterium.
You can choose whether to approve these suggestions manually or have them added automatically. In the match criteria widget, you can see exactly which labels have been added by the AI, and you can edit or delete them. Want to know why something has been added? Just ask, and you’ll get an explanation right away.
It gets even better: with a batch update, you can add new match criteria to existing candidate profiles all at once. This keeps your database not only complete, but also up to date and ready for Instant Matching.
Efficient matching with Instant Match
With the OTYS Instant Match functionality, you can immediately see which candidates are best suited to a vacancy, or vice versa. AI makes direct suggestions based on the set match criteria.
For you as a recruiter, this means less time spent searching and more time for the content.
