As businesses and job seekers alike outsource applications to AI, are we seeing the ‘Tinderfication’ of our careers? Asks Eliza Filby

You crack jokes, you make small talk, and as much as it even crosses your mind you assume you are being interviewed by an actual person. But then it dawns on you, your interviewer on the other end of a phone is an AI bot, running through a script with a series of prompts and responses. The realisation changes the nature of this process, and possibly even the answers you give.

On the other hand, imagine you’re an employer, impressed by an articulate cover letter and stand-out application, but when you finally meet the candidate you are surprised to find they can barely string a sentence together. Welcome to the complexities of recruitment in the age of artificial intelligence (AI).

What started with automated sifting and screening is maturing into chatbots and assessment by algorithm. Many companies outsource first round interviews to an AI system, which provides transcripts........

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