How AI Pinpoints the Perfect Candidate Fit

AI is reshaping how hiring managers make decisions, and rikta is at the forefront, helping businesses to  hire with confidence through data-driven insights. By combining the power of science and AI, rikta makes hiring for fit effortless.

I recently sat down with Yury Galustov, Head of Technology at rikta, to explore how rikta’s AI-based hiring platform is revolutionising recruitment by predicting candidate fit with unparalleled accuracy.

Finding the right fit: The impact of AI on hiring success

Rikta’s AI recruiting tools help businesses reduce hiring costs by enabling hiring managers to go beyond resumes and gut instinct to find the right candidates for their business. While the science behind the rikta quiz has been around for decades, combining personality testing with AI is revolutionary. By automating the way that personality results are delivered to hiring managers, rikta’s AI recruiting tools significantly speed up the process of truly understanding a candidates personality and behaviours, and then goes a step further by scoring their alignment with your business. These unique insights reduce the time to fill a role, as you’re only spending time interviewing candidates who are naturally a good fit, but also ensuring smarter hiring decisions that increase retention and lower costs.

Traditional recruitment methods such as CVs, interviews, and references often rely on limited, subjective measures and almost 30% of the time, end in employee attrition. With rikta, by analysing key personality traits and job compatibility, you are equipped with the tools you need to assess fit,  complimenting your existing hiring process. 

As Yury explains, “We help managers not only identify potential concerns about a candidate’s fit but also highlight strengths and alignment, making it easier to match the right people with the right roles. You can even identify traits of your top performers and hire similar, like-minded individuals.’”

Where AI meets science: The rikta advantage

Successfully identifying high-performing individuals in an interview becomes much easier when hiring managers have data on a person’s personality during the hiring process. For frontline employees, it is essential to have practical, reliable data about how a candidate will approach tasks, interact with people, and handle responsibility under pressure. With rikta’s psychometric testing for recruitment, this data is gathered efficiently, accurately, and seamlessly. 

Candidates complete the rikta quiz, a quick, mobile-friendly personality test consisting of a series of behavioural questions. On average, candidates finish it in just 3.5 minutes, allowing hiring managers to receive a full assessment of fit and suitability instantaneously - critical for hiring at pace.

Rikta AI simplifies complex psychometric data into clear, actionable insights, so hiring managers don’t need a psychology degree to interpret the rikta quiz results.

“The science behind rikta has been validated for over 50 years, and we preserve its integrity at every step. Traditionally, organisational psychologists manually assessed candidates against key business metrics, a process that was both time-consuming and costly. With rikta’s AI, these insights are now delivered instantly, making it easier and more efficient to identify the right fit.”

With the help of AI, rikta provides a deep understanding of a candidate’s personality traits, their alignment with the role and company values, and even generates tailored interview questions and communication strategies. This ensures a standout candidate experience while improving hiring success. 

Unlocking smarter hiring with rikta’s AI

Unlike traditional assessments that rely on static benchmarking, rikta dynamically adapts to the needs of each business, identifying patterns in top performers and applying these insights to new candidates. Instead of just providing scores, rikta’s AI gives context, showing hiring managers why a candidate may excel in a particular role, where they might need support, and how to engage them effectively from day one. Rikta’s AI translates complex data into practical hiring intelligence, offering a seamless way to assess fit, predict performance, and enhance retention. By leveraging these insights, talent acquisition teams gain a competitive advantage, securing top talent that aligns with their culture and long-term goals while minimising hiring risks.

The future of AI in predicting candidate success

Looking ahead, rikta will continue refining its AI-driven recruitment tools, expanding beyond hiring to support learning and development, employee retention, and workforce planning. By continuously improving AI recruiting tools and delivering the most effective recruitment strategies, rikta is shaping the future of talent acquisition.

“AI will be at the heart of how we deliver features, whether it’s supporting best hiring practices or enabling growth within teams. Science will continue to underpin the features of rikta and will continue to be complimented by advancements in Artificial Intelligence to ensure hiring managers make great hiring decisions every time” says Yury.

Curious about what's next? See how Yury is building the future of AI-powered recruitment in this video.