Is AI Solving TA Challenges?

Research by Alexis Whyte

HRO Today conducted a study of talent acquisition (TA) leaders across North America who are actively incorporating AI into their recruiting strategies. Drawing on insights from organizations already using these tools, this report explores how TA leaders are leveraging AI to address hiring challenges, what they expect its impact to be, and how they are preparing their teams and processes for broader adoption.

Talent acquisition is changing rapidly, becoming an integral piece to organizational success amid an unpredictable hiring landscape. However, over half of TA leaders agree persistent issues like talent shortages, low quality hires, and lack of visibility into the talent supply, continue plaguing their organization’s TA function. Implementing AI into TA processes can eliminate manual workload, reduce personal bias, and decrease overall costs.

Looking ahead, widespread utilization and continuous innovation will continue changing the TA landscape. AI technologies will continue integrating into the TA function, though this won’t define technological progress. Over three-quarters of TA leaders believe AI adoption will significantly impact the TA function. To keep up, TA processes need to become smarter, offer better predictive decisions, and bring increasingly impactful outcomes.

The Significance:

Effective TA strategy is critical to organizational success. Utilizing AI can streamline manual workflows, reduce bias, and improve the overall TA function. This study examines attitudes on AI use and implementation, its overall impact on TA challenges, and if emerging technologies can solve core issues.

Key Takeaways from this Research on AI’s Impact on TA:

• TA leaders are primarily using AI in candidate sourcing, talent supply visibility, and to deliver improvements across talent workflows. So far, using AI for interview analyses, performance metrics, and workforce planning has been the most impactful.
• Though AI use is widespread among TA leaders, only 3% are currently using AI to a great extent. However, nearly all TA leaders expect AI use within talent acquisition to grow.

Read the full report, sponsored by KellyOCG and Sevenstep, here.