{"id":5179,"date":"2020-05-10T00:59:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T00:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asr.com.au\/?p=5179"},"modified":"2023-07-11T01:59:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T01:59:55","slug":"ai-in-recruitment-the-risk-of-unconscious-bias-from-a-recruiter-who-is-ultimately-feeding-the-algorithms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asr.com.au\/ai-in-recruitment-the-risk-of-unconscious-bias-from-a-recruiter-who-is-ultimately-feeding-the-algorithms\/","title":{"rendered":"Ai In recruitment \u2013 The risk of unconscious bias from a recruiter who is ultimately feeding the algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Artificial Intelligence is employed in the recruitment process of companies by employing machine learning and problem- solving techniques to find the best candidate for a position.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What is Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment?<\/b>
\nArtificial Intelligence is employed in the recruitment process of companies by employing\u00a0machine learning and problem- solving techniques to find the best candidate for a position. This\u00a0technology is designed to automate some part of the recruiting workflow, especially repetitive\u00a0tasks.<\/p>\n

According to Noel Sharkey, a professor of AI and robotics at the University of Sheffield stated\u00a0that the use of algorithms in recruitment should be stopped immediately as they are usually\u00a0biased.<\/p>\n

What is the need for AI in recruitment?<\/b>
\nAutomation plays a crucial role in recruitment and is very much needed in recruitment. This\u00a0is because:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0AI reduces the workload of hiring professionals by automating all the tasks.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0With AI, recruiters can save their time and can pay attention to other activities.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Urgent hiring can only be done through artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

Why is traditional hiring deeply flawed?<\/b><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Unconscious human bias making it unfair:<\/b>\u00a0The most common way of reviewing\u00a0candidates before an interview is through recruiters reviewing resumes. This process leads to\u00a0unconscious bias of women, older workers and minorities.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Large pool of applicants are ignored:\u00a0<\/b>Recruiters limit their reviewing of the applicant pool\u00a0and they consider those candidates who are coming from Ivy League colleges, employee\u00a0referral programs etc.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Traditional hiring tools are already biased:<\/b>\u00a0Hiring tools can be biased if they are job-related. Job-related means that people who are successful in a role show certain characteristics.\u00a0Though it is not possible to correct human bias, it is possible to identify and correct bias in\u00a0AI.<\/p>\n

How AI can eliminate bias in hiring?<\/b><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0AI can eliminate unconscious human bias:<\/b>\u00a0AI can be designed so that it can meet\u00a0certain beneficial specifications. One main reason, for which AI is designed, is because it can\u00a0audit and the bias found in it can be removed. A movement along AI practitioners like OpenAI\u00a0and the future of life institute is already putting a set of design principles for making AI fair and\u00a0ethical.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0AI can assess the entire pool of candidates rather than forcing humans to implement\u00a0<\/b>biased processes:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0By using an automated process we can eliminate the bias. Appropriate\u00a0technologies should be made to create tools and policies that make it possible for the entire\u00a0pool to be reviewed.\u00a0So artificial intelligence has a lot of potential to remove bias from the recruiting process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Artificial Intelligence is employed in the recruitment process of companies by employing machine learning and problem- solving techniques to find the best candidate for a position. What is Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment? Artificial Intelligence is employed in the recruitment process of companies by employing\u00a0machine learning and problem- solving techniques to find the best candidate for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":13592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asr.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asr.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asr.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asr.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asr.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asr.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14822,"href":"https:\/\/www.asr.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions\/14822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asr.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/13592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asr.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asr.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asr.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}