Robot head Tengai might be your next job recruiter

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

Starting next spring, a robotic head called Tengai will begin to conduct job interviews, replacing the paper once played by a human recruiter.

Passing the job interview is perhaps one of the most complicated processes, because despite fulfilling the professional conditions required, the recruiter may see something in you that does not convince them, discarding you for the position.

Now the Swedish recruitment agency TNG has been using an artificially intelligent robot head called Tengai capable of conducting job interviews instead of a human recruiter.

After months of testing, starting in May will begin to interview candidates for real work in order to eliminate the prejudices that human recruiters bring to the recruitment process.

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Tengai is the work of Furhat Robotics, a startup of artificial intelligence conversational and social robotics. This robot head is placed on a table where it rests at the level of the candidate's eyes. Then the robot asks a series of questions in order with a voice and face designed for the occasion. The face is capable of imitating human inflections and expressions.

Unlike a human recruiter who can develop unconscious biases about a candidate based on anything - including their ethnicity - the robot will ask all the questions in the same order and in the same way, and so on for all interviewees.

Of course, the robot will not decide if that person is finally hired, given that all those transcripts of the candidate's answers will pass into the hands of a human recruiter who will make the final decision.

In any case, since the startup, the robot is expected to finish making its own decisions in the future.

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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