You might even be using AI already in your existing tech stack without knowing it.
Understanding how AI is used by staffing firms is crucial for leveraging its benefits effectively.
Let’s get started.
There are Three Types of Artificial Intelligence:
Sourcing AI
Sourcing AI focuses on automating the candidate sourcing process by identifying and shortlisting potential candidates from various sources, including online databases, social media, and job boards. In other words: It’s your recruiters’ best friend.
How You Can Use It
Staffing agencies can leverage sourcing AI to streamline and expedite the initial phase of recruitment, helping identify suitable candidates based on specific criteria, skills, and qualifications.
If you have a robust staffing software provider, you likely already have sourcing capabilities within your existing tools.
For example, TempWorks clients often use TempWorks tools to source talent from within the ATS, saving them time and money. Without this, they would be leaning more on expensive job board postings.
Generative AI
Generative AI involves systems capable of creating content—such as text, images, or even job descriptions—based on patterns learned from existing data. It can create new, original content that is contextually relevant.
How You Can Use It
Generative AI can be applied to automate the creation of engaging job descriptions, emails, or other communication materials, saving time for recruiters and ensuring consistency in messaging.
You can use free tools online for generating text. There are also integrations you can connect directly to your ATS/CRM that use AI and automation to generate text responses, such as talent engagement tools.
Directive AI
Directive AI, also known as prescriptive or decision-making AI, goes beyond automation and provides recommendations or decisions to guide human actions. It assists in making informed choices by analyzing data and suggesting optimal courses of action.
How You Can Use It
A valuable resource for recruiters, directive AI can offer insights into candidate shortlisting and suggest interview questions.
Plus, it can recommend suitable job matches based on a combination of historical data and real-time analytics.
How Do I Prepare for AI?
It’s important for your staffing firm to adapt to new technology, but that can’t happen overnight. Slow and steady wins the race.
Learn how your staffing firm can get ready to integrate more AI and automation into your business. As you work to adopt AI now, you will be better prepared for when advanced AI functions become available in staffing—increasing your chance to stay competitive.
Ready to learn how your staffing firm can leverage technology to stay competitive? Reach out for a free consultation.
