Artificial Intelligence for Human Resources

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Course Overview & Objectives

Artificial Intelligence is transforming Human Resources by automating repetitive administrative tasks and improving decision-making at every stage of the employee lifecycle. Instead of manually screening CVs or relying on subjective interpretations, HR teams can use AI to analyse applications, extract skills, compare profiles, and highlight the strongest candidates within seconds. AI also supports performance monitoring, employee engagement, skills development, and workforce planning—helping HR professionals focus on meaningful, strategic work rather than administrative overload.

Examples of AI use in HR:

  • Recruitment: automatically parses CVs, extracts skills, compares profiles to job descriptions, and generates candidate match scores.
  • Selection: ranks candidates based on job fit and highlights missing or desirable competencies.
  • Performance & engagement: identifies trends, skills gaps, and feedback themes that would take a human much longer to analyse.
  • Learning & development: recommends personalised training paths based on role, performance, or skills progression.
  • Workforce planning: analyses turnover, capacity, and skill distribution to support HR decisions.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the main applications of AI across HR functions, with a focus on recruitment and selection.
  • Use practical AI tools for automated CV screening, candidate scoring, and role matching.
  • Evaluate how AI can be integrated responsibly into their own HR processes.

Tools Introduced

Manatal

Manatal is an AI-powered Applicant Tracking System (ATS) designed for small and medium businesses. It uses AI to parse CVs, extract skills, score candidates, and match applicants to open roles automatically. The platform streamlines recruitment through automated ranking, candidate comparison, job posting tools, and a clean, beginner-friendly interface—ideal for fast and accurate shortlisting.

Step-by-Step Activities

Scenario

Your company is hiring a new Marketing Assistant. As the HR Officer, you need to quickly screen applicants and identify the best profiles- without spending hours reading CVs manually. 

Tool: Manatal (https://www.manatal.com/)

Manatal is an AI-powered Applicant Tracking System (ATS) designed for small and medium businesses. It includes:

 

  • AI scoring & recommendations
  • Skills extraction
  • Resume parsing
  • Automated ranking
  • Candidate comparison
  • Job posting & pipeline management

They offer a 14-day free trial. 

 

  1. Create a trial account, and start your free trial (no credit card is needed for this) 
  2. Go to “Home” and click “Create a Job”. 

3. Fill the following details:

  • Position Name: Marketing Assistant 
  • Department: Marketing 
  • Job Team: [your user]

In the description section, paste the following information:

Role Overview:

We are looking for a motivated Marketing Assistant to support daily marketing operations, social media coordination, content creation, and campaign performance tracking.

Responsibilities:

  • Assist in creating and scheduling social media posts
    Monitor engagement and prepare weekly reports
  • Support email marketing campaigns
  • Coordinate with influencers and partners
  • Update website content and product descriptions
  • Conduct basic market research

Required Skills:

  • Strong writing and communication skills
  • Social media management
  • Basic analytics (Instagram Insights / Google Analytics)
  • Good organisational skills
  • Interest in digital marketing trends

Nice-to-have:

  • Canva or Adobe Suite
  • Experience running paid ads
  • Basic SEO knowledge

4. In the ‘candidates’ section, create 2 new candidates, and upload the two Fake CVs, that can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10JWxKZ-WVu7yo-M7lt0V5xyPu8kUFTj-?usp=drive_link

5. Let the built-in AI feature parse the CVs. Manatal will automatically extract skills, read job titles, parse achievements, etc. 

6. Add these two candidates to the “Marketing Assistant” role. 

7. Under “Candidates” within the job, you will now see some AI insights, such as:

  • The job match score, allowing you to compare candidates’ suitability to the role
  • Recommendations for the Marketing Assistant role based on CVs submitted

8. Compare Lucas vs Ana:

  • Who is scored higher?
  • Which skills did the AI detect?
  • Did it correctly extract experience and education?
  • Do you agree with the ranking?

9. Check out this Demo of Manatal, to explore more of its features: https://youtu.be/VjinpYMUMoc?si=oJo9kSw9eC1DtzvD

Assessment

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them. [Project number: 2024-1-AT01-KA220-VET-000245796]

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