Will an AI Bot Decide if You Get That Job?
Will an AI Bot Decide if You Get That Job?
Companies are turning to tech solutions to screen candidates. Critics and job seekers have concerns.
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So I'll use AI to apply for the job, they'll use AI to decide if I get the job, and then 6 months down the line I'll lose the job to an AI.
Can we just skip to the AI apocalypse and save everyone's time?
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“Sifting through resumés all day is like a horrible experience and it’s not very reliable.”
Ah yes, and applying for jobs is just so easy and not at all disproportionately more degrading than hiring. /s
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Yes, obviously. What a ridiculous question when computers have been making hiring decisions since the late 1990s.
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The hell are you talking about
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In the US, at least, nearly all corporations digitized around the late nineties while buying into personality test nonsense.
At this time the screening was more simple than it was today, keyword searches and yes/no personality decisions that eliminated over 90% of applicants.
Now with LLMs they can eliminate nearly all applicants, giving them more legal justification to request visas or outsource.
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HireVue is a thing. I just took one being a software engineer interviewing
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My company sometimes uses that too. It has your general keyword filtering on resumes, with sensitivity adjustments.
It also has a tool to ask questions, then candidates video record themselves responding (as many retakes as they want) and the hiring manager can review their video so they aren't bound by a mutual schedule. No AI element to that (yet) that I'm aware of, but could see the potential to screen the videos through an AI filter.
I don't like the video screening, personally. Neither as an applicant nor as a hiring manager. I've only had to use it once as hiring manager where the narrowed down by resume pool of candidates was still 70 people for only one position. I used the damn tool because I didn't see any other way to filter it down to a number I could conceivably interview live on zoom.
If one is down to 3-5 candidates, AI tools of any sort are inappropriate. As with all things AI, it's a tool and not an excuse to not do the job.
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I did not have as many times as I wanted. I had one chance per question, no re takes. What's fucking hilarious is my reference was more important than the fucking screener. I got fired by a company for budget concerns supposedly but not on bad terms and this company contracts with them and apparently the hiring manager called my former engineering manager and I got a good word so to the top I went. Fucking hate the stain of AI.
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So if I don't like AI is that means I am discriminated or computers just took over the world and nobody cares ?
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