Huon Curtis, The Strategist:
Using automated systems, such as those enabled with artificial intelligence, to assist with recruitment can create efficiencies, but the increasingly complex interplay of machines, ownership and control of data, contract performance and human factors makes the effects difficult to predict. While solutions may be found by integrating hiring technology with deep knowledge of organisational needs and culture and adapting skills standards, recruitment is only one part of the workforce crisis facing Australia’s defence organisation.
These issues should be front of mind in the transition of the Australian Defence Force recruiting contract from Manpower to Adecco in the context of shortfalls in recruitment. Issues of the contract with Manpower have not been canvassed in public, but there are, without doubt, commonalities with contracting in other countries, such as the UK, which also has faced myriad recruitment challenges.
Algorithms won’t solve the ADF’s recruitment crisis | The Strategist (aspistrategist.org.au)
