How AI Hires, Monitors, & Fires, The Algorithms Getting Between You and Your Job, a Poll, & More
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The grftf Podcast Ep 14 | The New World of Work: How AI Hires, Monitors, & Fires — Hilke Schellmann
AI Recruitment Statistics
Understanding AI in Recruitment
Resume Format, LinkedIn URLs and Other Unexpected Influences on AI Personality Prediction in Hiring
Tools You Can Use to Navigate AI Hiring
A Poll
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Ep 14 | The New World of Work: How AI Hires, Monitors, & Fires — Hilke Schellmann
This week’s episode is a deep dive into the profound impact of AI on the job hiring process and employee management. Emmy Award winning investigative reporter Hilke Schellmann joins me to discuss the growing prevalence of AI in screening resumes, conducting video interviews, and making employment decisions in various companies, including the procedures that lead to biases and potentially unfair employment practices. She offers tangible strategies for job seekers to navigate this AI-dominated landscape, such as optimizing resumes for AI, utilizing AI tools like ChatGPT for interview preparation, and directly engaging with recruiters to bypass AI screening.
The conversation is framed around Schellmann's research and her book 'The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back,' urging a reevaluation of AI's role in society and work.
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AI Recruitment Statistics
Recruiters and companies are using AI for a variety of reasons, including cost reduction and speeding up the process. To learn more about exactly why companies and recruiters use AI, as well as the statistical benefits, here are some key facts:
Understanding AI in Recruitment
As AI technology becomes increasingly prevalent in recruitment processes, the onus is on people who use the solution to understand and demystify the technology, know how it works, recognize the ethical challenges involved, and learn what questions to ask when purchasing AI tech.
Can you explain the technology to me in simple terms?Â
Is it rules-based AI or machine learning?Â
How will this save time in my job?Â
How will this help me make better decisions?Â
What data set is the machine learning model drawing from, where did it come from and how big is it?
How long did it take to train the machine learning model?  Â
What are your responsible data practices?Â
Is the model constantly monitored for introduced bias?Â
How was the data set cleaned to remove AI hiring bias?
What market (U.S., Australia, Europe, etc) was the machine learning model developed for?Â
Will the machine learning model learn from my company and my context, or will it make the same decisions for every company? LINK
Resume Format, LinkedIn URLs and Other Unexpected Influences on AI Personality Prediction in Hiring
This audit of automated hiring systems investigates algorithmic personality tests, which analyze job seekers' profiles to predict future success.
Automated hiring systems are among the fastest-developing of all high-stakes AI systems. Among these are algorithmic personality tests that use insights from psychometric testing and promise to surface personality traits indicative of future success based on job seekers' resumes or social media profiles. We interrogate the reliability of such systems using stability of the outputs they produce, noting that reliability is a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for validity. We develop a methodology for an external audit of stability of algorithmic personality tests and instantiate this methodology in an audit of two systems, Humantic AI and Crystal. Rather than challenging or affirming the assumptions made in psychometric testing-that personality traits are meaningful and measurable constructs, and that they are indicative of future success on the job-we frame our methodology around testing the underlying assumptions made by the vendors of the algorithmic personality tests themselves. LINK
Tools You Can Use to Navigate AI Hiring
Jobscan ATS Resume Checker and Job Search Tools - Jobscan helps you optimize your resume for any job, highlighting the key experience and skills recruiters need to see.
SMART Career Acceleration Platform acts like a personal coach to every job seeker along their career journey, globally.
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