Hello, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service.

Today, a message for recruiters everywhere.

Stop all these face-to-face job interviews.

They're not working.

The point is to actually evaluate people's real potential knowledge and expertise.

And stuff like chemistry, like ability, charisma, charm usually get in the way of that.

Yes, we're considering the humble job interview today

and talking to the guy who says that computers can do it much better.

They can even read our charm.

We'll create an artificial intelligence layer that looks at the word usage computers can do it much better. They can even read our charm.

We'll create an artificial intelligence layer that looks at the word usage, inflection, and things like that,

but also looks at the way we express ourselves with our facial content, smiling, furrowed, brow, those sorts of things.

That's to come on Business Daily from the BBC. So there'll be a whistle to start, a whistle at the end of five minutes, there's then 30 seconds,

another whistle to start the next five minutes, and we will finish in an hour's time.

The sound there of a recent recruitment event.

Female executives rushing around a room trying to get noticed by prospective employers.

This so-called speed dating recruiting exercise is an unusual project designed for female executives returning to work after a long maternity leave,

and it's just one of a number of strategies that firms are resorting to these days to disrupt the perceived inadequacies of the regular job interview process.

That's the thing, you see.

Lots of people now seem to think the old-fashioned sit-down chat

just isn't how bosses ought to be hiring.

If they are highly structured, if we use a standardise scoring key,

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