Can AI make hiring fairer and more efficient?
Artificial intelligence applications like Siri and Alexa wake many of us up. They tell us the weather, give us directions, answer our questions, sing us songs, even tell us jokes. They have been welcomed warmly into homes. When it comes to the workplace, people tend to be less welcoming.
A lot of Americans—about 60 percent according to one survey—worry about robots taking over jobs. It’s not an unfounded fear. According to Brookings Institution, about 36 million Americans work in jobs where 70 percent of the tasks can be automated. AI has found its way onto factory floors and into offices, and the HR department is no exception. Not only is technology changing the way we do our jobs, but it’s also changing how we apply for those jobs and whether we are considered.
According to a survey released last year by consulting firm Korn Ferry, only 25 percent of recruiters had yet to use AI in their job. A majority of the respondents (87 percent) said they were excited about using AI more in the future.
Slow state background checks leave hundreds of vacancies in Huntsville schools
Every school employee from the cafeteria to the classroom must get a state background check, according to Alabama law. With the start of the school year across the state, hundreds of positions are yet to be filled because of the slower background-check process.
“We have over 100 people in this limbo just in our company here in Huntsville,” said head of customer experience with SPUR, Chris Hand. “In other parts of the state we have even more people waiting on backgrounds.”
Workplace Theft Is on the Rise
Your office is a den of thieves. Don’t take my word for it: When a forensic-accounting firm surveyed workers in 2013, 52 percent admitted to stealing company property. And the thievery is getting worse. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners reports that theft of “non-cash” property—ranging from a single pencil in the supply closet to a pallet of them on the company loading dock—jumped from 10.6 percent of corporate-theft losses in 2002 to 21 percent in 2018. Managers routinely order up to 20 percent more product than is necessary, just to account for sticky-fingered employees.
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