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Using artificial intelligence (AI) tech when recruiting candidates for a job

Having published my first research paper in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2008, I am happy to know just how mainstream AI has gotten as off late. One of the mainstream applications of AI, that I came across recently is a recruitment tool called HireVue. They claim it uses “AI” to screen prospective candidates for a job. I had a brief look at the software, how it works and these are my thoughts on it. How HireVue works? It ranks candidates based on some of the words the they use in the interview and then looks for specific keywords relative to the role they are interviewing for. It has a history of successful employees in the role in the past and then compares the new candidate based on what it knows from its history. It uses Facial recognition to look for certain expressions and eye movements in candidates. Finally, It evaluates all responses and places the candidates in buckets e.g, top, mid and bottom and presents it as a recommendation. It predicts ...