Artem Nikitiuk, an IT Talent Acquisition Manager at Deloitte, first encountered an AI candidate during an interview. The hiring process began as usual: the candidate sent a professionally crafted resume for an IT position. The next step was a phone call, which came as a complete surprise.
Artem Nikitiuk, an IT Talent Acquisition Manager at Deloitte, first encountered an AI candidate during an interview. The hiring process began as usual: the candidate sent a professionally crafted resume for an IT position. The next step was a phone call, which came as a complete surprise.
As Artem Nikitiuk told dev.ua, the company usually conducts calls with candidates in Microsoft Teams. But this time they decided to move the meeting to Zoom because the candidate reported a problem with the service.
«From the first minute, it was clear that something was wrong… The avatar on the screen tried to pretend to be a person, answered in a formulaic and unnatural way,» Artem noted in a post on LinkedIn.
The conversation lasted a few minutes. Artem only managed to ask how things were going and tell them what they would talk about during the meeting.
«When asked, 'Tell me about yourself, what I need to know as part of our process,' the AI broke down,» Artem said. «The candidate said, 'Oh,' covered his face with his hands, and just left the meeting.»
Why the candidate sent an AI instead of the real him is a difficult question to answer. Artem suggests that perhaps he could have worked on several jobs, or thought that the AI would cope better and faster with the questions.
«I expected something like this to happen someday. But I didn’t think it would happen so quickly. And you know what thought keeps haunting me? If there are already „AI candidates,“ how long is it until „AI recruiters“ appear? Forgive me, God, but we can really expect interviews where avatars sit on both sides of the screen,» Artem concluded.
