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May 15, 2024 | fotnews.futureoftalent.org | Kevin Wheeler

What do recruiters do when AI automates most of what they do? What skills should they acquire to survive? How can they continue to add value and ROI? Future of Talent Weekly Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

Sep 27, 2023 | fotnews.futureoftalent.org | Kevin Wheeler

Every day, new announcements about AI and its growth surprise and frighten. A few days ago, ChatGPT4 announced that it could now speak in five languages and answer questions about photos you present to it. For example, you could show it a picture of a machine, and it would identify it and perhaps even diagnose if something is wrong. This capability is available to anyone subscribing to the $20 monthly premium for ChatGPT4.

Jul 26, 2023 | fotnews.futureoftalent.org | Kevin Wheeler

A simple question for recruitment leaders: what is the purpose of the recruitment function? Why do organizations have such a function, and do the measures you report answer the question? In my mind, the purpose of recruitment is simple: to find, attract, and present to hiring managers people with the skills the hiring manager and the organization need. If that is the purpose, what metrics tell us how well talent acquisition attracts, finds, and presents the needed talent?

Jul 19, 2023 | fotnews.futureoftalent.org | Kevin Wheeler

Recently I have seen more and more recruiting functions focusing on the quality of hire or even using it as the primary measure of their success. This is unfortunate. One of the most difficult aspects of creating a metric is a precise, clear, measurable definition. And here is where the challenge lies when talking about the quality of a candidate or a hire. What exactly do we mean when we say quality of hire? It is how long they work for us. Is it how well they are liked?

May 24, 2023 | fotnews.futureoftalent.org | Kevin Wheeler

We all know that recruiting will not look like it does now in just a few years. Artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, will change everything. Google CEO Sundar Pichai was recently interviewed on (A U.S. television news and information show) and compared the invention of A.I. to the creation of fire, claiming it surpassed even great leaps in technology like electricity. But how will recruiting change? Will recruiters become obsolete?