🧠 McKinsey’s New Recruiter Doesn’t Drink Coffee — Because It’s an AI Chatbot

Move over, HR interns — McKinsey just hired a chatbot.
The consulting giant is using AI to help screen its army of grad applicants, because apparently even geniuses need help sorting through other geniuses.

Here’s how it works: applicants now chat with an AI as part of their early assessment. The bot asks questions, records responses, and neatly organizes them for human recruiters — who, thankfully, still make the final call. (No one’s being rejected because “the algorithm got weird vibes.” Yet.)

The goal isn’t to replace people, it’s to save time. McKinsey handles tens of thousands of applications every year, and letting an AI handle first contact means humans can focus on actual interviews instead of deciding who wrote the most enthusiastic cover letter.

Of course, there’s some side-eye about bias — could the bot accidentally ghost good candidates or favor a particular writing style? McKinsey says it’s keeping humans in charge, auditing the AI as it learns how to spot “potential consultants” instead of “potential chaos.”

This move follows a broader corporate trend: AI quietly sliding into office workflows, not to take jobs, but to take the boring parts of jobs.

So if you apply to McKinsey soon and get chatty with an overly polite chatbot — be nice. It might not give you a job, but it definitely knows if you used ChatGPT to write your answers.

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