Introduction to job fit

0:28 Hello, learners. Welcome back to the course on AI in human resource management. In the previous two lectures, if you have gone through them, you must have seen that we have categorically discussed the impact of artificial intelligence in performance management and AI in onboarding. Today, our agenda will be to look into AI in person-job fit. I'm Dr. Abraham Cyril Issac. I'm an assistant professor at the School of Business, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. Now, when you look into AI in person-job fit, specifically as our pattern goes, we have to understand what the keyword is.

0:57 What do you mean by person-job fit? You know, many times it is understood as the consistency of the particular person with respect to the task and the abilities. I mean to say that a person is given a particular job, how consistent they are in performing that job, what are the tasks, what are the responsibilities, what are the duties assigned with the particular task, how the individual is responding to that particular task in terms of their knowledge, in terms of their skills and abilities.

1:23 This consistency is known as person-job fit. In many OB courses, specifically in our NPTEL domain, I have an OB course in which I have extensively discussed this person-job fit. The right person in the right job is always a boon for the company. But many times we feel that most organizations have placed the wrong people in the right job. But again, our scope today is to look into AI in person-job fit. So let's understand that in a deeper way.

1:52 When you look into person-job fit, as I mentioned, it refers to the consistency between the individual's ability, personality,