AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants

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AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants
bbc.com

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"

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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.

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