Will Virtual Hiring platforms be able to tame the hiring bias?

Algorithmic hiring processes, automated resume screening, and auto-generated assessments took the pain out of hiring, but can historical and institutional bias still sneak in? How do virtual hiring solutions providers tackle the hiring bias concerns?

- Soma Tah

COVID could have been the biggest destroyer of jobs in human history, the way it shut the world down. UN labour experts fear that more than 200 million people worldwide might lose their jobs next year due to the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. However, Tech is one of those few sectors that took off during the pandemic, and even the pandemic could not dampen the hiring spree in Tech. By adding 138,000 people alone in FY2021, the Indian IT-BPM industry continues to be one of the top hirers of skilled talent. The hiring prospects look robust for FY22 too, with the top 5 Indian IT companies planning to add over 96,000 employees, reveals NASSCOM data.

So how did the sector continue to hire talents even at a time when face-to-face meetings became a risky business? The way COVID forced organizations and people to switch to virtual working environments overnight, the shift to Virtual Recruitment was just a natural corollary. A survey conducted by recruitment assessment solutions provider, MeritTrac says that 86 per cent of the organizations moved their hiring and assessment online during the pandemic.

Virtual Hiring and Online Assessments are here to stay

Now, after investing heavily on remote hiring solutions and also spending so much time perfecting the virtual hiring processes, they just might stick to the model in the future also, even when things get back to normal.