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Fortune
Jessica Coacci

AI recruiters could be the unlikely solution to career catfishing, with job seekers admitting they’d rather interview with a bot

Young woman searching for jobs on laptop (Credit: Maria Korneeva)
  • Hiring managers are at the mercy of catfishing, where final candidates accept a job offer only to never show up. But respite may be on the way: New research shows that job applicants interviewed by an AI voice agents are 12% more likely to land a job offer than those screened by human recruiters—and more importantly, are more likely to show up for work and stick around after 30 days. 

Bosses fed up with candidate ghosting and combing through thousands of applications may have a new assistant for the gruelling selection process: using AI to interview the applicants. And the tools are benefiting job-seekers, too. 

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