AI for recruiters

Speak AI fluently with the people you hire.

Engineers, hiring managers and candidates in AI use a vocabulary of their own. This is a plain-English guide to it: what each term means, and why it matters when you're hiring.

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How a chat AI answers your question

The core loop behind ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
Your prompt"Summarise this CV" TokensSum·mar·ise · this · CV The modelbillions of learned weights(a transformer) Next tokenmost likely word-piece Answerword by word added to the text, then repeat until done AN LLM WRITES ONE TOKEN AT A TIME

This is why AI can "hallucinate": it predicts likely words, not verified facts. Look up Token, Hallucination and RAG in the glossary below.

What's in the glossary

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The glossary

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