As firms increasingly rely on artificial intelligence-driven hiring platforms, many highly qualified candidates are finding themselves on the cutting room floor.

an AI resume screener had been trained on CVs of employees already at the firm, giving people extra marks if they listed “baseball” or “basketball” – hobbies that were linked to more successful staff, often men. Those who mentioned “softball” – typically women – were downgraded.

Marginalised groups often “fall through the cracks, because they have different hobbies, they went to different schools”

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
    73·
    7 months ago

    It’s been working for me pretty well.

    I certainly wouldn’t select this tool for hiring for all jobs, it does filter on some skills that are directly related to the job I hire for. Customer facing. High levels of comfort with office software and videoconferencing. Showing some degree of preparation when giving the question or request in advance. Being able to put someone in front of a customer or government official and trust that they hold it together is important.

    I don’t see value in it for a role that doesn’t require those sorts of communication skills. Some analyst or programmer who mostly works on their own projects and only interacts with their internal team? This isn’t the tool to use in hiring.

    • OmanMkII@aussie.zoneEnglish
      52·
      7 months ago

      I don’t really get why people are up in arms at this stuff. I hate the idea of doing these type of interviews, sure. But my grad program had 3k applications, 1k video interviews, 300 in person interviews, and only 100 actual roles. How the fuck else do they expect people to handle the sheer size of applications in management/HR roles?

      • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
        72·
        7 months ago

        I have to assume most of the comments are from people who have never worked in positions that deal with this sort of thing on volumes of this scale.

        One of my jobs in college was an admin assistant with the department that reviewed international candidates for post grad positions. Your experience makes 100% sense to me. Scheduling live interviews across the globe was an absolute nightmare. Video submissions would have been fantastic. Candidates could have recorded on their own time, not some ungodly early AM hour to accommodate the US hiring panel. And especially for the ones for whom English wasn’t their first language, it would have given them time to prepare and re-record as many times as necessary to get a submission they were satisfied with.

        Holding the position that video interviews are fine but pre-recorded video is not is baffling to me. I get some would feel it’s a performance they would be uncomfortable with, but I mainly see it as an interaction that I as candidate can exert more control over versua a live video interview.

        • bane_killgrind@kbin.social
          22·
          7 months ago

          Holding the position that video interviews are fine but pre-recorded video is not is baffling to me

          Yeah lol that’s because you don’t seem to have any empathy for the people you are hiring. Why is it important if you don’t care about it? Easy answer is it isn’t.

          • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
            2·
            7 months ago

            Candidates could have recorded on their own time, not some ungodly early AM hour to accommodate the US hiring panel. And especially for the ones for whom English wasn’t their first language, it would have given them time to prepare and re-record as many times as necessary to get a submission they were satisfied with.

            What part of this makes me unempathetic? I am truly baffled by your position. When used correctly, this tool gives an applicant the control to put their best foot forward.

            • bane_killgrind@kbin.social
              1·
              7 months ago

              Not just that

              it may be unfriendly to some neuro-atypical people. You know that, I know that.

              You should do some introspection.

              • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
                2·
                7 months ago

                Way to dodge my question. Go ahead and answer it and then I’ll respond to your attempt at a blanket statement about neurodiverse people.

    • bane_killgrind@kbin.social
      1·
      7 months ago

      You are selecting for the people privileged enough to know how or spend the time figuring out how to record and send video. Even if someone has used teams every day for presentations, it’s easy to avoid using recording features when videoconferencing is all live.

      If your workplace creates pre-recorded videos for office use, then sure I guess it’s a skill you can select for.

      • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        I’m also selecting for people privileged enough to have a college degree, sometimes even a post grad or doctorate. So yeah, being able to use software that the pandemic made pretty much necessary in this industry and in universities is something I’m ok with filtering on.

        Others in this thread have used bank teller as a use case. It probably doesn’t make sense to use this sort of video tool for a bank teller hiring process because 1) tellers don’t work on video, they’re in person and 2) there’s going to be a handful of applicants and they are likely local so an in-person interview is less of a logistics challenge.