Redazione RHC : 13 August 2025 17:13
The job search process has been profoundly altered by artificial intelligence, prompting many companies to revive a more traditional approach: face-to-face interviews, as the WSJ points out.
Virtual interviews have become the new norm in recent years, thanks to the rise of remote work and employers’ desire to hire more quickly. However, recruiters say that more and more candidates are using AI to deceive, such as by receiving hidden clues during technical interviews.
Rarely, but more dangerous cases do occur: AI tools allow scammers to impersonate job seekers to steal data or money after they secure a job.
In response, companies are returning to in-person meetings. Cisco and McKinsey now include at least one in-person meeting at various stages of the hiring process, and this year Google reintroduced in-person interviews for some positions to test key skills like coding.
“We want to make sure we do at least one round of in-person interviews to make sure the candidate has the foundational knowledge,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said on the Lex Friedman podcast.
This is especially true for development and engineering jobs, where real-time coding tasks have become too easy to perform with AI. “We’re back to square one,” says Mike Kyle of Coda Search/Staffing.
According to him, the percentage of employers requiring in-person meetings has increased from 5% in 2024 to 30% in 2025.
This is an unexpected phase in the AI arms race, where employers, overwhelmed by the flood of applications, have turned to software to screen and filter resumes en masse. Candidates, in turn, have begun using artificial intelligence to automatically respond to hundreds of job postings and create personalized resumes.
New deepfake technologies not only allow people to impersonate a more qualified specialist, but also to organize large-scale scams. The FBI has raised the alarm about thousands of North Koreans posing as Americans to work remotely in the United States.
In a Gartner survey, 6% of candidates admitted to participating in “interview scams,” and the company predicts that by 2028, a quarter of candidate profiles worldwide will be fake.
A year and a half ago, McKinsey introduced a mandatory in-person meeting before submitting an offer. Initially, this helped assess how a candidate establishes contact, an important skill for working with clients.
Now the company admits that the rise in AI-based fraud has only reinforced this practice.
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