McKinsey AI Recruitment Integration

What happened

McKinsey integrated an AI chatbot into its graduate recruitment pilot programme, assessing candidates on their ability to prompt the AI assistant and adapt its responses. This introduces a new evaluation criterion for specific candidate cohorts, shifting the assessment mechanism to include proficiency in AI interaction and response refinement, replacing or augmenting prior methods. The change is currently confined to a pilot.

Why it matters

This introduces an operational constraint for HR and recruitment teams, requiring new frameworks for evaluating AI interaction skills and potentially increasing the oversight burden for ensuring fair and consistent assessment. It also creates a dependency on the AI system's performance and introduces a visibility gap regarding the underlying AI decision-making processes, necessitating enhanced due diligence in candidate evaluation.