Chennai startup builds ‘human-like’ AI to help
with job interviews

Hyring is a Chennai-based AI startup that has recently launched the ‘Hyring AI Screener’: An automatic interviewer, not a person in HR, who could screen candidates in real time. The idea is to make recruiting efforts more efficient, more so in manufacturing, with future refinements to be multilingual and expanded.

Yet another AI startup emerging from Chennai is Hyring, which has launched its ‘Hyring AI Screener’. This is an AI screener that it claims not only to be quicker but indeed to have the capability of screening candidates in real time and even doing away with age-old roles of HRs. It looks to make recruitment more efficient in manufacturing sectors and will add support in multiple languages as it expands scope.

There comes the magic of AI interviewers through Chennai-based AI recruitment startup Hyring-online interview automation, the process being quite similar to having an inbuilt recruiter who interviews them, asks questions, records, assesses, and grades the candidates.
It is called the ‘Hyring AI Screener.’ This AI model has even put an end to the HR recruiter’s need to become actively involved in online interviews. Also, this AI can recommend four to five top candidates who could be selected by the recruiter for the next round of recruitment.

These are just passers – existing AI software scans through resumes to look out for keywords and experience before giving insight over whether a candidate is suitable for a role or not, said Adithyan RK, Founder and CEO at Hyring, “What existing software does not do, however, is interview a candidate or evaluate their performance on a LIVE video interview; that our AI screener does.”.

It was at a time when many companies were fighting recruitment woes amid the COVID-19 pandemic that Adithyan floated the idea of AI screener with “human-like AI” attributes. “Then I realized that most HRs have trouble with the products they use to recruit,” he said.

While Sapia and Babblebot have worked on building AI software to do video interviews, what Hyring brings in is the change that the AI ‘can judge’ a candidate-not just film an interview, according to Adithyan.

Hyring’s AI screener is industry-agnostic but is getting more momentum in manufacturing perhaps as it requires voluminous recruitment. The interesting thing is that the multilingual interview feature is now under trial and will be ready for launch soon. “We plan to first launch 10 languages on the screener, but will scale up soon,” says Adithyan.

Although the screener is industry-agnostic, Hyring offered sector-specific recruitment as an added feature that can also appraise candidates interviewing for coding or writing positions. AI Screener has gained takers in some global organizations such as Worldline and FP Markets.

He’s trying to build a fully automated product that supports the whole recruitment process-from sourcing and screening, all the way to interviews and onboarding. By the way, he said they are looking to raise funding-they applied to Y-Combinator for USD 1 million by November.

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