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Executive Search & Recruitment


The future of recruitment


John Mortimer (pictured), CEO and co-founder of the Angela Mortimer Group, which includes Birmingham-based people management and recruitment specialists Katie Bard, looks at the future of recruitment.


In five years’ time the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) should be getting closer, and the promises of lost jobs should be turning into reality. Technology has been with us for a long time now, and it seems to me that jobs have changed but not been lost. That I think will hold good for the future. In 1976, when we started the Angela Mortimer Group,


secretaries used golf ball typewriters. By the end of the 80s, there was a desktop on every desk, and the secretaries had taken over running the office. The main difference was the keyboard. Running AI should be less cataclysmic physically, but may


be more demanding on the intelligence levels of the humans who will run it. My assumption is that staffing will be more demanding in terms of the intelligence, and judgement, and therefore will require better quality recruitment.


Better quality recruitment processes will be necessary in the future 40 CHAMBERLINK December 2017/January 2018


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