Dan Miller: 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...

“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.

if the computer is making the decisions you're not not the recruiter anymore.

A computer makes a decision when you answer whether you’re eligible to work in the country you applied to work in.

Dan being a pedantic wanker on top of a secretary pretending they are a recruiter isn't going to win you any points. Read the room.

*yawn*

*fart*

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We'd all be better off if we strictly adhered to the truth of this:

More like "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore it is the perfect decision maker to let you avoid blame."

Yes bsky.app/profile/symb...

this once again proves that any mediating technology like 'ai' or 'drones' is going to be used to the maximum extent to provide deniability and evade responsibility

This is precisely why hiring is such a mess right now. ATS that try to make the lone recruiter handling 100s of reqs more productive, doing vastly more with less. AI is a marketing term nearly devoid of meaning now. Some tools can classify resumes using ML LLMs are not one. It's not how they work

The issue isn’t necessarily more reqs, it’s that you get way more applicants today. Hell, you can go on The Ladders and sign up for a tool that will apply to jobs for you. We have reached out to applicants who had no idea they applied for our job.

The advent of the Internet expanded the funnel by orders of magnitude. Corps, via vendors, threw tech instead of people at the challenge. A bad and biased system grew worse. Efficiencies reduce pts of human interaction giving both sides, esp applicants, less of what they need for good decisions.

Here’s an idea: Maybe companies should require job applications be sent by mail, the old fashioned way. That would cut out tons of chaff. What we have now is an unsustainable mess that’s rapidly becoming bots applying to bots vetted by bots (Also maybe HR departments should hire more humans again)

Sure, in that I agree. But HR is just as much a cost center to be reduced to maximize shareholder value as any other. For most orgs spending money on Workday is preferable to making a more humane space and process. Human connection only has meaning if profitable.

That's not a justification for using tools known to do the job poorly. But the reason why those tools continue to be used is because they provide a veneer of legitimacy that there's no accountability for because meaningful KPIs for hiring are a science unto themselves.

It can also get better at making it's bias harder to spot.

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.

Maybe it's better in your mind to offshore some of the work, but as a degreed worker with technical skills, I can assure you humans making the decision are just as bad at hiring people with visible disability. Now they can just blame the algorithm which is clearly just as biased.

I’m literally just arguing that these tools exist. It’s bizarre that you’re speculating about what’s going on in my mind other than the argument I’m making.

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