Career Quartermaster: Second paragraph is the tell. ATS' are over 20yrs old and have had AI from the start for screening and reasoning. AI isn't a new additive in the space.

“UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the ‘Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award’ — lower than the same resumes without those honors and credentials.”

ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability — but it can improvewww.washington.edu UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the “Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award” — lower than the same...

why did they write, "but it can improve." they should ask experts. this is journalistic malpractice.

Because it’s not a fatal flaw for AI when it comes to resume reviewing. It can and hopefully will improve. That’s not journalistic malpractice, that’s a big piece of the story.

'ai' can't "review resumes", so let's start there.

lol. Yes it can. I’ve been a recruiter for ten years and there are all sorts of tools available depending on how much you want AI to make decisions about resumes. aspenhr.com/ai-resume-sc...

Using AI For Resume Screening: What HR Teams Should Knowaspenhr.com AI resume screening offers many benefits but also comes with problems. Review pros and cons, and learn how to use AI for resume screening while avoiding the pitfalls.

Second paragraph is the tell. ATS' are over 20yrs old and have had AI from the start for screening and reasoning. AI isn't a new additive in the space.

And ATS’ are one of the worst things to happen to the hiring process and keep getting worse by the year 🙃

ATS are the roach motels of hiring. Reqs to hire & resumes go in. Nothing comes out. AI on the tin makes me want it less as a hiring manager.

ATS has not had “AI” for 20 years—it’s had biased, discriminatory statistics. Current chatbots do not have “AI”—they have language models, which are biased, discriminatory, and operate as a black box so you can’t know their full harm till they do it.

Like I said, they've had AI for over 20 yrs.

You have to stop using the term "AI", it no longer means anything. Even before LLM/generative toys, it was too overloaded. bsky.app/profile/symb... But all mechanical vetting of resumes is harmful, wrong, and counterproductive.

The acronym 'ai' has been deliberately poisoned to obscure other technologies that actually do useful things. bsky.app/profile/symb...

No, I don't. I've got over two decades of contending with these systems. That's 20+ yrs of snark in my previous post. All built up by helping others navigate that toxic, dehumanizing morass. But if you want to take a directive posture & miss we're on the same side here, who am I to stop you?

I was a bit too blunt, sorry. But I do think the term is now more confusing than ever? If you don't agree, I'm seriously interested to know what I should understand 'ai' to mean, now.

It's absolutely been voided of serious meaning by rampant misapplication in the name of marketing/hype. Unlike "hallucinations" (they're miscalculation, folks) it seems to me to be more fruitful to not argue the corrupted term and instead draw attention to failings & dangers. Educate along the way.

We're good. I'm to old to be thinned skinned and value community too much to ignore like minds.

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