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AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants (www.bbc.com)

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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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[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Buckshot strategy. (I apologize if the use of that term is disrespectful to your username). I applied to hundreds of jobs over the year. Some had intermediate/junior in the position. Some were just at companies I wanted to be at more, even if not that role specifically.

[-] livus@kbin.social 16 points 6 months ago

I apologize if the use of that term is disrespectful to your username

I love how thoughtful you are.

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