AI HR Daily by OVI

A new Greenhouse report surveyed nearly 3,000 active job seekers and found that 38% have walked away from a hiring process because it included an AI interview. The problem isn't that candidates reject AI — it's that most employers are deploying AI interviews without the transparency candidates expect. Seventy percent of candidates said they were never clearly told upfront that AI would evaluate th...

The EU AI Act's August 2026 enforcement deadline is arriving fast, and HR teams using AI in hiring, performance reviews, or workforce decisions are directly in scope. Most HR leaders assume it's a legal or tech problem — but it's not. If your company uses AI to screen resumes, rank candidates, or assess employees, you're operating a high-risk AI system under this law. In this episode, we break dow...

EU lawmakers just announced a provisional deal to push the AI Act's high-risk employment deadline from August 2026 to December 2027. For HR teams who've been scrambling to prepare, that sounds like welcome breathing room. Except — it might not be. The provisional agreement is part of the Digital AI Omnibus package, and it only becomes law once it's formally adopted and published in the EU Official...

Something strange is happening in the job market right now. Entry-level openings just hit a 12-month high — up 18% — but applications are actually falling. And younger workers, the people those jobs are literally designed for, are pulling back in significant numbers. New ICIMS data from May 2026 reveals the why: it's a confidence crisis, and AI is at the center of it. A full 78% of early-career jo...

Workday just shipped over 300 AI skills for HR teams and didn't charge a dollar extra. The new Sana Self-Service Agent handles employee self-service — benefits questions, PTO requests, pay slips, personal info updates — through a single conversational interface that actually takes action, not just answers FAQs. In this episode, we dig into what this really means for HR teams, plus two other featur...

Something strange happened to hiring between 2022 and today. Applications per job posting tripled. Recruiters at Fortune 500 companies went from reviewing roughly 1 in 20 applicants to barely seeing 1 in 80. Nearly half of all incoming candidates are never evaluated at all. And the culprit? The same AI tools candidates are using to auto-generate perfect-looking resumes. In this episode, we dig int...

A new Stanford-led study just dropped — and it's the largest analysis of AI hiring algorithms ever conducted. Four million job applications. 156 major employers. One vendor. And the finding that should stop every HR leader cold: one in four Black applicants is being screened by an AI system that produces racially biased outcomes. The researchers didn't just find bias — they found that the way most...

Companies with the right culture trade at a 47% share price premium. That's not a feel-good stat — it's the headline from Culture Amp's research tracking 1,800 organizations and 1.5 billion employee survey responses. And now Culture Amp has turned that research into a diagnostic tool every HR leader can use. In this episode, we break down the Performance Culture Quadrant — a new framework that map...

Your recruiters aren't slow. They're stuck on a bottleneck that was always going to be automated: the phone screen. New data shows recruiters are burning 8 to 10 hours a week just on scheduling and conducting those calls. Add it up and you're looking at two full working days per recruiter, per week, spent on structured conversations that follow the same script every time. In this episode, we break...

Only 14% of workers use AI every day. That group earns a 56% wage premium, reports 92% productivity gains, and feels more secure in their jobs. The other 86%? They're not behind because AI is too expensive or complex — they're behind because no one showed them what it can do. New research from PwC, SHRM, and McKinsey paints a surprisingly clear picture: the biggest barrier to AI adoption in HR isn...

Dex raised $5.3 million to build an AI voice agent that interviews engineers, matches them to jobs, and charges 20 to 30 percent of first-year salary — the same rate as an executive search firm. In this episode, we break down how Dex actually works, why they're betting everything on passive AI engineer discovery, and what the success-fee pricing model means for your recruiting budget. Plus, where...

The World Economic Forum says 40% of workers' core skills will be outdated by 2030. But here's the practical problem most HR leaders aren't talking about enough: the job profiles inside your HRIS probably haven't been updated in over a year. That gap between what your architecture says roles require and what they actually need today? That's where bad hires, missed internal talent, and workforce pl...

Volkswagen Group is running two HR playbooks simultaneously: eliminating 50,000 legacy roles while racing to hire battery engineers, software developers, and EV specialists it couldn't have predicted needing a decade ago. The numbers are staggering — 662,000 employees, a 44% drop in net profit, and a deal with Germany's most powerful union to do it all without forced layoffs. In this episode, we b...

Every AI hiring vendor promises the same safeguard: a human reviews the AI's recommendation before any candidate advances or gets cut. It sounds responsible. But peer-reviewed research from 2023 to 2025 is telling a very different story. In one study, 528 participants evaluated hiring decisions alongside a deliberately biased AI — and followed its picks roughly 90% of the time. That's not a human-...

Recruiters lose more than half their workday to just two tasks — sourcing candidates and doing first-round screens. LinkedIn's data puts it plainly: over 30% of recruiter time goes to sourcing, another 25% to screening. The smartest high-volume hiring teams in 2026 have figured out that these are two separate problems requiring two separate tools. In this episode, we break down the leading AI sour...

HSBC doesn't just have a large workforce — it has 220,000 employees across 62 countries, all under the eye of regulators like the FCA, MAS, and the US Federal Reserve. When legacy job titles stopped matching what the bank actually needed, HSBC turned to AI-powered talent intelligence from Eightfold.ai. The result? A skills-based hiring and internal mobility engine that works at global scale. But h...

Every year, L'Oreal receives 1.5 million job applications. That's more than 4,000 per day. And somehow, candidate satisfaction with their hiring process is near 100 percent. How? AI — but with a very specific twist. In this episode, we break down the three-layer AI architecture L'Oreal built to screen at massive scale, the numbers that prove it works (83% predictive accuracy, 200+ hours saved), an...

About one in seven people globally are neurodivergent — ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and more. But the employment rate for autistic adults in the US is around 22%. That's not a talent shortage. That's a screening failure built into the tools most HR teams use every day. In this episode, we dig into what the research actually shows about how conventional hiring processes systematically filter...

Mercor's AI interviewer Monty runs 10,000 screening sessions every day — one new interview beginning every nine seconds. The company went from zero to a $10 billion valuation in just a few years, now serving six of the seven biggest tech companies on the planet. But for all that scale, Mercor only solves half the hiring equation. Technical assessment at speed? Done. Salary expectations, communicat...

L'Oreal receives over 1.5 million job applications every year. That's more than 4,000 a day. And somehow, their candidates report near-perfect satisfaction with the hiring process. In this episode, we break down exactly how they did it — a three-layer AI stack that handles volume without sacrificing the human touch. We cover L'Oreal's Mya chatbot (92% engagement rate), Seedlink AI for competency s...

On August 2, 2026, the EU AI Act's high-risk obligations kick in — and if your company uses AI to screen resumes, rank candidates, or evaluate employee performance, you're already in scope. That includes companies headquartered outside Europe. The law's extraterritorial reach is one of the most underestimated facts about this regulation. In this episode, we break down exactly what the EU AI Act re...

Most HR teams assume AI screening tools come with enterprise price tags and long procurement cycles. OVI flips that assumption entirely — with a free plan, a $29 launch option, and a starter tier at $99/month that covers most growing teams. In this episode, we break down OVI's five pricing plans, run the real cost-per-interview math, and show you which plan actually makes sense for your hiring vol...

Retail turnover tops 60% industry-wide. Yet Ingka Group — the company behind 400+ IKEA stores and 155,000 employees — fills over 70% of its management roles from within. How? A combination of AI-powered career matching, sustained learning investment, and treating internal fill rate as a board-level KPI. In this episode, we break down the three-part system Ingka Group built: algorithmic skills matc...

Gartner predicted that 82% of HR leaders would deploy agentic AI by May 2026. That deadline is right now. But while adoption numbers are up, most organizations rushing to meet that forecast are running straight into three problems automation alone can't fix: a candidate trust collapse, a bias crisis, and a rapidly tightening compliance window. In this episode, we unpack what the SHRM and DemandSag...

What if your senior engineers never had to conduct another technical interview? That's exactly what Karat is betting on — and a growing roster of companies like Pinterest, Intuit, and Robinhood are taking them up on it. In this episode, we dig into Karat's Interview as a Service model, where professional Interview Engineers run your technical screens while AI handles scheduling, consistency, and b...