{"id":168391,"date":"2023-07-26T16:29:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/ai-chatbots-are-the-new-job-interviewers"},"modified":"2023-07-26T16:29:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T21:29:13","slug":"ai-chatbots-are-the-new-job-interviewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/ai-chatbots-are-the-new-job-interviewers","title":{"rendered":"AI Chatbots Are The New Job Interviewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-chatbots-are-the-new-job-interviewers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few examples: McDonald\u2019s chatbot recruiter \u201cOlivia\u201d cleared Claypool for an in-person interview, but then failed to schedule it because of technical issues. A Wendy\u2019s bot managed to schedule her for an in-person interview but it was for a job she couldn\u2019t do. Then a Hardees chatbot sent her to interview with a store manager who was on leave \u2014 hardly a seamless recruiting strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI showed up at Hardees and they were kind of surprised. The crew operating the restaurant had no idea what to do with me or how to help me,\u201d Claypool, who ultimately took a job elsewhere, told <em>Forbes<\/em>. <em> <\/em>\u201cIt seemed like a more complicated thing than it had to be,\u201d she said. (McDonald\u2019s and Hardees didn\u2019t respond to a comment request. A Wendy\u2019s spokesperson told Forbes the bot creates \u201chiring efficiencies,\u201d adding \u201cinnovation is our DNA.\u201d) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few examples: McDonald\u2019s chatbot recruiter \u201cOlivia\u201d cleared Claypool for an in-person interview, but then failed to schedule it because of technical issues. A Wendy\u2019s bot managed to schedule her for an in-person interview but it was for a job she couldn\u2019t do. Then a Hardees chatbot sent her to interview with a store manager [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}