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”

    • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
      291·
      9 months ago

      Your company requiring video submissions for a fucking application is the easiest “this company is batshit insane and there’s no possibility working for them could ever be worth it” red flag I’ve ever seen.

        • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
          82·
          9 months ago

          You should hate it as a manager. You’re filtering out every single quality candidate because only a deranged nut job would even consider such an unhinged request. Submitting a video, in and of itself, proves they are not worth hiring.

          You don’t need to process every candidate. Just randomly take 5%, or 1%, or .001%, and do a real hiring process. Anything at all is better than requiring a video application.

            • OmanMkII@aussie.zoneEnglish
              51·
              9 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?

                • bane_killgrind@kbin.social
                  12·
                  9 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.

            • bane_killgrind@kbin.social
              1·
              9 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.

    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      9 months ago

      If you care about my appearance more than my ability to do the job I wouldn’t want to work with you anyway.

      I literally roll out of bed most mornings without looking in rhe mirror, walk up to my home office and start work. And I’m one of the best employees at my office.

        • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          Dress Professional is code for, I feel the need to control you. We really need a complete flip in how we view work. This shit is old, can’t believe this attitude still persists post covid.

    • sharkwellington@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      I tried one of these video screening interviews once. It’s very unfriendly to the neuro-atypical. Gave up about halfway through, because I was on the verge of a stress-induced panic attack and figured the job wasn’t worth it with this kind of hoop to apply.

    • BargsimBoyz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      9 months ago

      I get weeding out the people who answer the question incorrectly.

      You seem to place a lot of emphasis on appearance though which is shitty. Hopefully AI will help with that sort of bias as it’s pretty irrelevant. I get if you’re a boomer that appearance is important, but its also the easiest thing to change. If you pass all the other criteria appearance shouldn’t matter as you can easily just buy a suit/comb your hair.