As Australian companies struggle to fill roles with the right talent amid one of the country’s worst skills shortages, many are taking a shot at Artificial Intelligence (AI) to source, interview and match candidates to open roles.  It’s been an interesting few weeks for Artificial Intelligence. AI chatbot ChatGPT is being tested to detect early signs of Alzheimer’s, DALL-E is creating images from simple text, and Anthropic is working to build reliable and interpretable AI systems grounded on safety.  Following years of disappointment, the technology has finally emerged from its “AI winter” and is making waves in all business areas, including recruitment.  Between 35% and 45% of businesses are tipped to use AI talent acquisition technology to help source, shortlist and interview candidates in 2023. Just under three-quarters of businesses increased their spending on talent acquisition software last year, with the vast majority saying they will continue investing in it this year (Modern Hire, 2023).  As Australia continues to suffer its most significant labour shortage in decades, businesses are now adopting AI to identify highly skilled candidates and automate some of the lengthy processes involved in shortlisting and selecting the suitable candidates for their open roles.  Can AI effectively parse resumes for skilled roles at scale?  Hiring managers often have hundreds of resumes and cover letters to scan through in the first round of shortlisting candidates. For skilled roles, there may be only a handful of qualified candidates hidden beneath them.  At the best of times, hiring managers can only afford to spend as little as 10 seconds on each resume to identify the relevant qualifications – a specific degree, experience in a particular role etc. even though the vast majority of candidates are not qualified for the position.  To solve this challenge, AI technology can identify qualified candidates at scale by crawling the text within each resume and matching it again