Using Generative AI Tools in the Recruitment and Selection Process: A Two-Part Exercise

Employee recruitment and selection continue to be heavily influenced by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools. For future managers and human resource professionals, learning to leverage GenAI is quickly becoming a critical skill. To provide undergraduate management students with the opportunity to explore these tools firsthand, we designed two complementary exercises. The first exercise provides students with a series of GenAI prompts to generate a job description and evaluate the output for accuracy, adherence to legal standards, and inclusiveness. In the second exercise, students rank the résumés of fictional candidates for the AI-generated job description to select a final candidate. Through the debrief questions of both exercises, students also reflect on the ethical implications of AI use during the recruitment and selection process.