Recruiting
Hiring Process
Next-Gen Hiring: Navigating Candidates’ Use of AI
AI is rewriting the rules of hiring. This learning path gives you the insight and strategies to stay ahead. You’ll discover how candidates are using AI, and learn how to protect integrity without losing speed or candidate trust. From spotting AI-generated responses to setting clear policies and training your teams, you’ll walk away prepared to meet the AI era with confidence and control.
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Presenters Presented By
Tom Sayer
SocialTalent Expert
Tom Sayer is a talent acquisition leader with 20+ years’ experience across industries and continents. He helps lead Accenture’s global recruiting transformation—reimagining end-to-end processes to attract, engage, assess, and hire approximately 140,000 people a year from 6 million applicants—after heading international delivery teams and large-scale change programs in complex organizations.
Learning Outcomes
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By the end of the Learning Path you will be able to:
Map and anticipate candidate AI use across CVs, applications, coding tests, and interviews, and quantify its impact on speed and evaluation quality.
Detect AI-assisted responses using linguistic signals, behavioral probes, and corroboration, while minimizing false positives and negatives.
Define and roll out clear policies on acceptable AI use for candidates and teams, and design AI-resilient assessments that verify authorship and real capability without adding cycle time.
Operationalize trustworthy hiring with recruiter playbooks, candidate communications, audit-ready documentation, and governance that balances automation with human checkpoints at high-impact decisions.
Missions in this Learning Path
The best candidate for your role might not have the “right” background - but they may have the right skills. In this mission, you’ll learn how to break down a role to uncover what really drives success, assess transferable skills with confidence, and design a hiring process that surfaces overlooked talent. You’ll also explore how to use AI to streamline tasks, structure interviews, and reduce bias - while keeping the human touch where it matters most.
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