On AI and trust: why human screening matters more than ever

Anyone who sees the figures cannot help but be concerned. The risk of CV fraud driven by A.I. is now estimated to amount to no less than 600 billion dollars (!), with 50% of candidates now saying they use A.I. when looking for a job, whilst only 36% of employers believe they have adequate fraud detection technology in place. It is estimated that by 2028, a quarter of the candidate profiles you receive as a recruiter will be at least partly fake. And no less than 62% of hiring managers say that candidates are better at faking their identity than they are at detecting it.

The rise of A.I. is fundamentally changing recruitment, as someone like Michel Franken, who recently started as Director New Business EMEA at DISA (formerly Validata), the market leader in employment screening of candidates, also sees. ‘Recruiters now have powerful tools to find candidates, write vacancies, assess applications and automate processes,’ he observes. ‘But the same technology that helps recruiters also makes it easier to manipulate information. This creates a new challenge for employers: how can you still be sure that the person you hire really is who they say they are?’