Recruiters are using AI avatars to run interviews. Now candidates are sending avatars to attend them.
Job recruiters are meeting an uncanny new kind of candidate: the AI avatar. These digital humans mirror an applicant’s voice and likeness while being something else entirely, and they are turning up in first-round interviews.
Lana Kersanava, a Sydney-based recruiter, told Semafor she has encountered them over the past six months. “At the beginning, it’s like you feel like something is off,” she said, adding: “It looks very realistic.”
How she spotted it
The tell was not the rendering, which held up. It was the answers, delivered with a polish that never faltered across a run of questions.
After roughly five minutes, Kersanava ended the interview and disqualified the candidate. She has now done this three times.
The detail worth pausing on
All three avatar candidates had applied for English-speaking roles as non-native speakers, leaning on the technology to cover a gap in language proficiency....
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