65% of recruiters currently use AI, and more are willing to do the same?
20/10/24
– That’s one of the latest insights I got from Zippia.
Happy or sad news?
I think the decision depends solely on everyone’s perspective.
What’s concerning is that most people seem to agree that the use of AI is a positive development to remove human bias and inefficiencies.
However, we must have all forgotten a very interesting 2014 bad experience story.
It happened with no other company than the world’s largest marketplace – Amazon.
They organized a team to build a system that will help narrow down top talents by reviewing job applicants’ resumes.
The aim was to make it so powerful that you can give it 100 resumes, and it will spit out the top 5 and those will end up getting hired.
They trained the models on 10 years of resume data that was predominantly from male candidates (back then, men’s dominance in the tech industry was never surprising).
As a result, the system taught itself that male candidates were preferable.
It penalized resumes containing “women’s” and downgraded many women’s colleges.
Yikes! Amazon had to shut the program down as a result.
(There’s a link in the comments if you’d like to read the full article).
My point here is:
“What if everyone decides to use AI for recruiting based on the so-called benefits it offers and potentially forget about the risks that come with it?”
I’d love to hear your honest opinions in the comment section.
#recruitment #hr #jobsearch #ai
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Sources:
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1MK0AG/
https://www.zippia.com/employer/ai-recruitment-statistics/
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