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

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants::As firms increasingly rely on artificial intelligence-driven hiring platforms, many highly qualified candidates are finding themselves on the cutting room floor.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I am on the other end of this. As an employer, job boards are now essentially useless. Worst of all, we pay per profile engaged. In order for us to verify that the profile is even tangentially a match, we have to engage, but the new algorithms are only providing poor matches. It used to be that we would pay per posting and we could engage with every profile that responded AND every profile that matched our keywords, at no extra costs (this shit costs over $10k per year).

The market is ripe for a competitor that offers services equivalent to what we had nearly twenty years ago.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Enshittification is a rot that ruins everything for everyone. Even the rich people trying richer will just end suffering from the total collapse of functioning society in the end.

Capitalism is a mental illness.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Every service is getting shittier with AI. They all suck. Hell, even autocorrect is worse.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why not skip those companies and put a listing on your own company website? I feel like a big source of the issue is companies outsourcing this kind of thing to other companies. You are going to need to do some work on your own at some point.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Our default is Dice, Indeed, Facebook. Twatter, Mastodon, and our website. We're too small and specialized for the website to work. If you know about us, chances are you know one of our people at which point it's an "in network" referral.

EDIT: To be fair, nothing but the job boards and referrals work. Facebook, Twatter, LinkedIn, etc, are a waste of time and money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

To an extent, unless they are hiring a very large number of people, it’s likely going to get them less applicants.

As someone looking for a job right now, the idea of having to think of every company that might need a software developer, to go check their website, is paralyzing. And that’s not even taking into account companies on the other side of the country looking for a remote worker, that I’ve never heard of.