Articles from TestGorilla

TestGorilla, the leading skills-based hiring platform, is highlighting US-specific findings from the State of Hiring for AI Fluency 2026, a survey of 1,928 senior hiring leaders across 29 industries in the US and UK, finding that 59% of organizations across both markets made a bad AI hire in the past year: a candidate who spoke the language in the interview, named the tools, described the workflows, and then could not apply any of it once through the door. In the US, that failure is compounding. 33% of US organizations report that a team member’s over-reliance on AI has led to a significant error in the past six months, more than twice the 13% rate in the UK. Both markets operate in the same technology environment. The gap between them is upstream, in how each market defines the AI fluency standard and what candidates are required to demonstrate before an offer is made.

TestGorilla, the leading skills-based hiring platform, today released The State of Hiring for AI Fluency, revealing a fundamental shift in talent evaluation: AI fluency has overtaken domain expertise as the top hiring priority. 53% of hiring managers now prefer candidates with strong AI fluency over deep subject matter experts.

TestGorilla, the skills-based hiring platform trusted by thousands of organisations worldwide, today announced a suite of new assessments and simulation tests purpose-built to help talent acquisition teams evaluate AI readiness and AI fluency off the back of the company’s flagship event: Hire for the AI Era.

TestGorilla, the talent discovery platform, has today launched skills-based AI video interviews to replace manual screening calls. Available in one-way and conversational formats, the interviews assess job-relevant skills and behaviors and use explainable AI to score responses against expert-developed criteria, helping recruiters shortlist more quickly and confidently.