HR doesn’t need to be the CIA
What would you think if you were asked in a job interview to hold up three fingers in front of your face? Perhaps you’re doing so badly that they’re checking you’re not concussed? More likely the recruiter is trying to check that you’re not an AI deepfake.
Employers are trying all sorts of things to combat fraudulent AI use in the recruitment process. There are jobseekers who use chatbots to bluff their way into jobs they’re not capable of, or pay “interview mules” to complete assessments for them. More dangerously, there are hackers who try to get hired with false identities in order to access internal systems, and even remote IT workers who turn out to be based in North Korea. The research company Gartner has predicted that one in four candidate profiles worldwide will be fake by 2028.
All this is leading to a culture clash inside companies. The warm and fuzzy realms of HR and recruitment are having to learn to work with the suspicious minds of the cyber security world.
One example: the HR platform Deel acquired AI cyber security company Clarity in August in order to “embed continuous identity security across the entire hiring and workforce lifecycle”.
