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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    5 months ago

    I get weeding out the people who answer the question incorrectly.

    You seem to place a lot of emphasis on appearance though which is shitty. Hopefully AI will help with that sort of bias as it’s pretty irrelevant. I get if you’re a boomer that appearance is important, but its also the easiest thing to change. If you pass all the other criteria appearance shouldn’t matter as you can easily just buy a suit/comb your hair.

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      5 months ago

      Where did I say I’m weeding out if they don’t wear a suit? JFC, the lack of reading comprehension is the sort of thing that comes through in these videos. All the time to read, reread, and prep and you still miss 90% of what I wrote.

      Customer facing. Interacting with government officials. No, it doesn’t make me a boomer to expect that they be able to prep, be professional, and wear a shirt free of obscenities. Being professional on a video call is literally a required skill for certain jobs these days.