Designed by the recruiting-technology firm HireVue, the system uses candidates’ computer or cellphone cameras to analyze their facial movements, word choice and speaking voice before ranking them against other applicants based on an automatically generated “employability” score. Drew Harwell, Washington Post Yeah, I have questions. So many questions. Loren Larsen, […]
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New AI Whitepaper from SIOP
The Visibility Committee of SIOP just published a whitepaper called Artificial Intelligence in Talent Assessment and Selection, prepared by Neil Morelli. The goal of the paper is to “dispel some of the mystique that surrounds AI used for hiring, while also encouraging confident investment in AI tools that can help […]
Fred Oswald Interviewed in U.S. News & World Report on AI in Hiring
A good hiring test meets three criteria, says Fred Oswald, an industrial-organizational psychologist with expertise in personnel selection and analytics and a professor in the department of psychological sciences at Rice University. It’s reliable, which means a job applicant who takes the test multiple times receives similar scores. It’s valid, […]
Moneyball for Employee Selection Has Arrived
The U.S. unemployment rate is down to 3.9% and it looks like it’s going to be a candidate’s market for a long while. Sourcers and recruiters are howling and companies are competing for talent like never before. Enter AI and big data. A January 2018 survey of 1,000-plus C-suite executives found […]
AI and the (Near) Future of Work
The economic situation is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous, so trying to predict anything about the future of work seems foolish. Barring any major global catastrophes, however, here are a few safe bets. Anything that can be done by a machine, will be. Humans have been using tools to carry out low-skilled tasks since […]