Machine learning is giving computers the ability to learn without explicit programming. This is primarily accomplished through various pattern recognition processes. For example, if you tell a computer to find the best candidates for a job by identifying patterns in data that produce the best results. In this way, a computer will find correlations and patterns that a human would overlook — leading to increasingly higher quality candidates.

Beyond that, the possibilities are infinite! Imagine that we’re able to predict the crash of a certain market, and know that there will be a surplus of available candidates in that specific field, you can then focus your efforts as a recruiter to take advantage of that situation. The ability to predict upticks and downticks in a given market is a revolutionary new possibility thanks to machine learning. It would give recruiters a serious advantage over their competitors and would allow them to reach out and make connections much earlier in the recruiting process.

Read more about how machine learning will help recruiting here.