How would you feel about being interviewed for your next job by an AI chat bot? Before you answer, you should know: the same AI bot may be responsible for deciding whether you get the job or not. Don’t worry, bots don’t take things personally. A young cousin of mine shared her experience of a job interview by AI just last week (June 2025). That’s when I realised how real this is. Upon online investigation, I found that 65% of companies now let AI help choose their next employees. From cutting hiring costs by 30% to saving recruiters 15 hours per week, AI is reshaping how businesses find and evaluate talent. This is as per a report published by joingenius.com in Feb 2025.
By now we are all accustomed to hearing about the many ways in which the corporate landscape is changing. The other shifts – discussed in my previous stories and in my first book – are all chiefly fuelled by evolving socio-cultural factors such as an abundance mindset, growing awareness around what toxicity in interpersonal skills is, one’s holistic medical well being and also the phenomenal impact companies can make on preserving or destroying the environment. Many parents of 21 year olds will tell you that the emerging generation has a very different attitude towards jobs and careers than earlier generations. Before, we glorified loyalty and passion towards an employer – simply overlooking the flaw in the system. A system that treats reckless profit-making as an honourable justification to ignore family, friends, humaneness, and personal health. The younger generation feels free to reject this system – much to the shock of earlier generations – while being dubbed as lazy and entitled. Call them what you want, the truth will remain that it is their time now.
Is capitalism coming to an end? No. It is however shapeshifting to suit the new world order. We are moving to an era of heightened accountability and efficiency with diminishing tolerance to faking and fudging. Office politics as we know it will be ancient history. Because AI has entered the scene. AI is free of bias, prejudice, jealousy, insecurity, personal agendas and ego. How refreshingly robotic!
Imagine if exit interviews at the well-known and established companies we have worked at or still work at had been conducted by AI bots, all these years? Delivering objective reports on the reason behind high attrition rates of valuable talent in certain teams or offices? Makes one wonder what percentage of mid to top leadership in respected companies would have been at the positions they are at now. How would this have impacted the productivity, output and reputation of these companies? In the years to come we will see how the introduction of AI to manage organisations will impact which companies rise and which go stale. Companies and people that mastered the subtle art of posturing or pretending to compensate for incompetence and insincerity will have to change their ways.
Corresponding with these realities, the very foundations of companies are being demolished and rebuilt to make sense in this new world. Omnicom’s acquisition of IPG (Interpublic group) and WPP getting set to retire the ‘Group M’ name altogether and launch ‘WPP media’ in the coming months are all a part of the big restructure we are witnessing. Surely, organisational culture will be re-built from the ground up too. This time with AI bots in the teams.
Job seekers today are being advised to be prepared for AI assisted or AI led job interviews. What’s next? New business pitch presentations to AI bots? The shift in interface from human to robotic could be inundating at first especially for those who have only relied on ‘building human connections’ as a replacement for efficient use of time and resources to truly understand and cater to the client’s business meaningfully.
But hey! There’s good news too. There are several videos online that aid in preparing for this reality – I came across one in Hindi as well – showing how mainstream this is becoming – on how to ace AI interviews. There’s support. All we need is an openness to learn to get comfortable with objectivity and substance in professional set-ups.
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