If you spend enough time on LinkedIn, you’d think AI recruiter interviews are either the future of recruiting or the beginning of the end. Some recruiters see them as the efficiency breakthrough our industry desperately needs. Others worry they’re removing the human element from hiring. Candidates seem equally divided, at least on the surface.

But after spending the last year talking with talent leaders, technology partners, and recruiting teams experimenting with AI, we’ve come to believe we’re asking the wrong question. Not should we use AI recruiter interviews? But rather, what makes an AI recruiter interview a good candidate experience?

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