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Companies are turning to tech solutions to screen candidates. Critics and job seekers have concerns.

  • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    4 hours ago

    “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

    • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      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.