Use this AI Hiring Readiness Checklist to assess whether your Talent Acquisition and HR teams are equipped to lead in a workforce shaped by AI:
🧠Strategic Planning
- We participate in early-stage workforce planning conversations with business leaders
- We advise on where AI can replace, augment, or enhance roles
- We help evaluate whether a role should go to a human, an AI agent, or both
🧰 Job Design & Role Clarity
- Our job descriptions include responsibilities related to AI use or oversight
- We define performance outcomes instead of vague duties
- We differentiate between roles requiring people leadership vs. AI fluency
🧪 Evaluation & Hiring Process
- Our interview process assesses adaptability, critical thinking, and AI familiarity
- We use structured interviews or scorecards for consistency and bias reduction
- We have guidelines for evaluating candidates’ ability to work alongside AI agents
đź“Š Skills & Capability Mapping
- We track emerging skill needs, especially around AI use and data literacy
- We evaluate gaps between current workforce capabilities and future needs
- We influence L&D or upskilling initiatives based on hiring insights
🤝 Cross-Functional Partnership
- We collaborate with IT, operations, and line managers to align on AI capabilities
- We train hiring managers on what “AI-first” hiring actually means in their context
- We support change management as AI shifts team structure and responsibilities
🧍‍♀️ Human-Centric Guardrails
- We ensure that AI integration doesn’t compromise culture or DEI goals
- We monitor the ethical use of AI in hiring and talent assessments
- We advocate for the human impact in every major workforce decision
How to Use This:
Share it with your TA team, HRBP group, or executive stakeholders to guide conversations about how to integrate AI strategically without losing the human edge.
