AI optimizes 10% of recruiters’ time at Sber

Sber has implemented a variety of AI models to search and hire new employees.

- A suite of parsing models recognizing resume data fed from different sources. Its goal is to route and prioritize information for later use by recruiters.

- An ensemble of ranking models for candidates, vacancies for an employee when applying in-house search, and responses to vacancies using resume for recruiters. This cuts the time for filling vacancies and reduces the time recruiters spend working with the database of candidates by 10%, helping company employees find relevant jobs in the bank faster.

- Predicting the number of candidates to fill a vacancy. The funnel sufficiency model provides good hiring planning for non-managerial positions. This smart planning is being applied to 1,145 cities and more than 80,000 workers with general professions, significantly reducing the costs of recruiting specialists for departments and other subdivisions.

Sber addressed the issue during the Artificial Intelligence Journey Conference held on November 10-12.

AI Journey 2021 is a key event of the Year of Science and Technology in Russia. The conference will also see a presentation of Sber AI products, feature an awards ceremony for the winners and runners-up of AI Journey Contest, an international online DS/AI competition for adults, and the international artificial intelligence contest for children AI International Junior Contest organized by Sber and the Artificial Intelligence Alliance. AI Journey Junior, a conference for middle and high school students interested in data science and AI technology, will be held on the third day.

The Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (AIRI) will also present the initial results of its projects. Jürgen Schmidhuber, chief scientific advisor at AIRI and scientific director at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA) (Switzerland), will speak at AI Journey, as usual.

Last year's AI Journey was the world's largest AI and DS event, with around 30,000 specialists from over 100 countries taking part in the conference. The conference featured 225 speakers, and their presentations garnered over 30 million views.