Amazon Launches AI Tool to Speed Up Hiring

Amazon has launched Amazon Connect Talent, an AI-powered hiring solution designed for large-scale recruitment in industries like retail, logistics, and hospitality. The platform uses AI agents to conduct interviews and assessments around the clock, delivering scored candidate summaries, full transcripts, and evaluation reasoning to recruiters by the next morning. Built on decades of Amazon's hiring science, the tool anonymizes candidate data during evaluation to reduce unconscious bias, focusing solely on job-related competencies. Recruiters retain full control over final hiring decisions, with configurable criteria and transparent scoring tied to specific candidate responses.