The Air and Space Force has signed a partnership with the French start-up Gojob, which will use its AI to sort applications for all of the 4,000 positions for which the institution recruits each year.
The French start-up Gojob, a specialist in temporary recruitment with artificial intelligence solutions, has been selected by the Air and Space Force to manage all of its personnel needs, the company announced on Monday April 13. After a test phase, Gojob has been deploying its AI solution since April 1 “to manage and pre-qualify all of the institution’s applications and recruitments, or around 70,000 files per year”, according to a press release.
“There are 4,000 people to recruit permanently every year. It remains an extremely important issue,” declared General Philippe Hirtzig, director of human resources for the Air and Space Force. The institution is recruiting for 50 professions, from cook on an air base to helicopter pilot, he added.
An initial selection made by AI based on specific criteria such as age (you must be an adult to join the army) and nationality (you must be a French citizen, except to join the Foreign Legion) should make it possible to quickly prioritize the most relevant applications before army recruiters take over and contact the candidates directly.
The HR director promises that there is no bias
Although it is gradually becoming more widespread, recruitment using AI continues to be debated, in particular due to bias in algorithms which can reproduce or amplify discrimination. Examples of AI software sorting CVs and displaying sexist or racist bias, and devaluing women or black people, are numerous. “AI systems, which learn from data full of stereotypes, often reflect and reinforce gender bias,” explains Zinnya del Villar, data scientist and technology director at Data-Pop Alliance, in an interview published on UN Women.
Thanks to the tests carried out upstream, “we have the assurance that the biases of artificial intelligence are not discriminatory”, affirmed General Philippe Hirtzig, adding that “sampling checks” will be carried out.
“All our models can be audited,” assured Benjamin Vallat, deputy general director of Gojob, explaining that they have put in place safeguards to structure the data while avoiding bias. This partnership, the amount of which has not been revealed, allows, according to General Philippe Hirtzig, to put forward a “sovereign” solution meeting “the canon of certifications and security guarantees” in France and Europe. Founded in 2015, Gojob, which also collaborates with France Travail, claimed a turnover of nearly 200 million euros in 2025. It has around 250 employees spread between France and the United States.
Originally published at Almouwatin.com
