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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" โ€“ hobbies that were linked to more successful staff, often men. Those who mentioned "softball" โ€“ typically women โ€“ were downgraded.

Marginalised groups often "fall through the cracks, because they have different hobbies, they went to different schools"

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 25 points 8 months ago

Commenting on the title alone: I thought they were doing that already since the beginning. I don't say that just as someone who's bitter about never being called even for a fucking face-to-face interview, but because I've seen people who actually are great at their work never getting any returns on their applications.

[-] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

This. I'm lucky if I get an email saying I didn't get the job.

Another thing I hate: those "personality tests". Given the option, most of my answers to those questions would be "it depends on the situation". (After all, there are several different variables to consider, variables that the scenarios those "tests" they give us don't cover, that I would actually need to consider if I were in the situation described in the scenario.) But that's not an option, so I'm forced to pick something that I don't really believe is right.

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