AI-Assisted Hiring Will Drive Indeed’s Growth, Recruit CEO Says

Companies embracing artificial intelligence to recruit and hire people won’t threaten Indeed.com’s business model, as some investors fear, but rather help drive profit and sales growth at the No. 1 job-search portal, its chief executive officer said.

Hisayuki “Deko” Idekoba, who leads Indeed and its parent, Tokyo-based Recruit Holdings Co., said the business is using AI to help companies optimize their talent-acquisition approach based on the pool of candidates, number of applicants per job and other factors, while using the flow of data to set compensation levels or adjust job qualifications. “We’re gradually starting to deploy solutions such as AI agents to customers,” Idekoba said in an interview in Tokyo.