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”
I’m sorry it caused you a panic attack. However,
it may be unfriendly to some neuro-atypical people. You know that, I know that.
this particular job requires being on camera or communicating in person for large parts of every workday. If a person finds this stressful, neurodiverse or not, it’s probably not the job for them. Using video screening can be seen as an application tool, think a programming position having a person write a piece of demo code or a university professor being asked to submit published peer-reviewed articles or a video demo of one of their lectures.
I’ll say it again just so a person doesn’t have to reread this entire thread, this is a tool option. It would probably be ineffective and even detrimental to use it in interviewing for a job that doesn’t have a lot of customer interaction and communication by videoconference. I fully agree that it could filter out qualified candidates if the job requirements are totally unrelated. I could see my train engineer uncle letting out a stringg of expletives if someone tried to tell him this was the hiring process he had to go through to work alone on a train 99% of his workday.