# AI recruiting

AI recruiting is the use of artificial intelligence across steps in the hiring process, including finding candidates, screening applications, conducting interviews, and matching people to open roles.

It's a category covering several distinct tools rather than one single product, and most companies use it for specific steps rather than the entire pipeline.

**AI recruiting** — AI recruiting refers to the use of artificial intelligence tools across the hiring process, spanning sourcing, screening, interviewing, and matching. A company might use AI for one narrow task, such as ranking resumes against a job description, or for a broader slice of the pipeline that includes an AI-conducted interview and automated scoring. The term itself doesn't specify which parts of hiring are automated, which is why it's usually paired with a more specific term, like AI screening or AI interview scoring, when describing exactly what a given tool does. What most AI recruiting tools have in common is processing a larger volume of candidate data than a person could manually review at the same speed, whether that's scanning thousands of resumes for keyword and skill matches or running the same quality of screening conversation with every applicant instead of only the first few who happen to get a recruiter's attention.

Adoption has grown mostly at the top of the funnel, where volume is highest and manual review is slowest: sourcing candidates from a wider pool, screening a large applicant list down to a workable shortlist, and matching candidates to roles based on more than keyword overlap. Later stages, like final interviews and offer decisions, still tend to stay with a human decision-maker even at companies that use AI heavily earlier in the process.

## Frequently asked questions

### Does AI recruiting mean AI makes the hiring decision?

Usually not. AI recruiting tools typically handle sourcing, screening, or scoring, producing information a human uses to decide, rather than making the final hire or reject call themselves.

### Is AI recruiting only for large companies?

No. Tools built for AI screening or AI interviewing are increasingly available to companies of any size, since the underlying value, screening more candidates consistently, applies regardless of company scale.

### What's the difference between AI recruiting and an ATS?

An ATS is the system that tracks applications through the pipeline. AI recruiting describes AI capabilities that can sit inside or alongside an ATS, such as screening or interviewing, rather than the tracking system itself.

## Related pages

- [AI screening](/glossary/ai-screening)
- [AI interview scoring](/glossary/ai-interview-scoring)
- [Browse open roles](/jobs)

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