RALEIGH, N.C. — Stuart Keeter is a recruiter and uses artificial intelligence every day to be more efficient for his clients.

What You Need To Know

 Stuart Keeter, vice president of Management Recruiters of Raleigh, uses A.I. every day to help his clients

 Kimberly Harris-Villalva is a career coach and says using A.I. is about re-skilling and re-imagining 

According to DemandSage, 65% of recruiters use A.I. to save time, improve candidate sourcing and reduce hiring cost

DemandSage says 87% of companies use A.I. in their hiring process

“It’s a tremendous, tremendous tool that can give you a lot of great guidance and and allow you to find a job faster,” said  Stuart Keeter, vice president of Management Recruiters of Raleigh. 

As A.I. tools reshape the hiring process, both employers and applicants are navigating a new landscape where authenticity is harder to verify.

“It’s a tool. It’s not going to call for you, is not going to do the submission for you, right? It’s limited in what is going to be able to do,” Keeter said. 

According to DemandSage, 65% of recruiters use A.I. to save time, improve candidate sourcing and reduce hiring costs. The study also says 87% of companies use A.I. in their hiring process. 

A.I. tools like ChatGPT, CoPilot Gemini and Claude can cut the time in half when it comes to applying and searching for jobs. It can build a resume, write a cover letter and even find available jobs that best fit a resume.

“When you think about starting, and everything really starts with the resume, and then you can, you can come up with a plan, and you can ask A.I. to develop the plan for you,” Keeter said. 

A.I. can build a resume using a LinkedIn account in seconds. It’s not entirely accurate, but officials say it’s a good place to start.

“If you have the mentality that this is going to be a great tool to use, to help you find a job, it’s really is good, but it’s not your final product,” said Keeter. 

Career coach Kimberly Harris-Villalva says A.I. is about re-skilling and re-imagining. 

“With the unprecedented adoption of A.I., the U.S. workforce, it has just been a lot going on over the past six years,” Harris-Villalva said.   

She says 60% to 70% of companies report reducing hiring for entry-level roles and says some applicants are worried job postings aren’t real.

“It is definitely changing how job seekers apply. Are they really jobs? We’re seeing, you know, our career community as we call them, where they contact us, are these real positions? They’re getting so frustrated,” she said.

Both Keeter and Harris-Villalva say this is just the beginning of A.I., and more people are using it than some might think. 

“I would say at least the last five years has been, and pretty intensive with the use of A.I.,” Keeter said. 

Although many are leaning toward using A.I. in their job search, application and hiring, according to staffing agency Insight Global, 93% of people still see the importance of humans in hiring. 

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