Hiring Doesn’t Need an AI Arms Race. It Needs a Better Candidate Experience.

Hiring Doesn’t Need an AI Arms Race. It Needs a Better Candidate Experience.

Hiring Doesn’t Need an AI Arms Race. It Needs a Better Candidate Experience.

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06/05/2025

The AI backlash in hiring is growing, and it’s easy to understand why.

In a recent Financial Times piece, employers and jobseekers alike voiced their frustration. Candidates feel dehumanised by automated video interviews and unresponsive systems. Employers are overwhelmed with AI-generated applications they can’t validate. Everyone is caught in an arms race of automation, and nobody’s winning.

What began as a well-intentioned effort to reduce bias and increase efficiency has become something else entirely: cold, confusing, and inaccessible.


At inploi, we believe there’s a better way.

We don’t see AI as a replacement for human interaction.

We see it as a tool to enhance it: to create a fairer, more engaging, and more transparent hiring journey.


How we’re building smarter, fairer, more human hiring journeys

1. AI that enhances human decisions, not replaces them

We use technology to make the journey easier, not more opaque.

That means enabling teams to:

  • Spend less time sifting through irrelevant applications

  • Identify where strong candidates are dropping off, and why

  • Understand which campaigns and touchpoints drive the right outcomes

  • Improve hiring performance without adding complexity or new headcount

Our AI-powered orchestration engine sits at the core of the inploi platform, activating rich candidate insights across a modular suite of tools that power the full journey: from hi to hired.

This is AI in support of human hiring, not automation for its own sake.


2. Designing for clarity, access, and trust

inploi integrates with over 100+ enterprise ATSs, creating a seamless layer between rigid backend systems and dynamic, consumer-grade candidate experiences.

We unify candidate data across every touchpoint, becoming the source of truth for pre- and post-ATS activity. This powers:

  • CMS & Careers Sites: Fully configurable, SEO-optimised, and brand-consistent hubs that convert

  • Flows & Chatbot: No-code workflows and conversational tools that streamline applications and reduce drop-off

  • Journeys (Audiences): AI-driven segmentation and personalisation for always-on nurture, reactivation, and content targeting

  • Talent Attraction: Integrated programmatic distribution and campaign management to drive quality traffic and reduce wasted spend

Together, these modules give employers control, flexibility, and visibility across the hiring lifecycle, and candidates the clarity, accessibility, and responsiveness they expect.


3. Data that creates dialogue, not silence

For too long, hiring systems have been a one-way street: candidates apply, and then... nothing.

inploi changes that by:

  • Giving candidates immediate confirmation and a consistent experience

  • Giving Talent Acquisition teams real-time analytics on engagement and drop-off

  • Enabling performance optimisation based on what candidates actually do

It's not about more dashboards, it's about turning blind spots into actionable insight.


4. Results that prove it works

Take PureGym, for example:

  • 90%+ reduction in time-to-hire

  • 2x more completed applications

  • 91% candidate satisfaction

All without adding headcount or changing their ATS.


Why this matters

When hiring becomes transactional, everyone loses. When it becomes intentional, candidate-first, data-informed, and accessible, companies build better teams and stronger brands.

We don’t need another hiring algorithm war. We need hiring infrastructure that works for humans - on both sides of the process.

That’s what we’re building at inploi.

Want to see what that looks like?

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