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

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an AI resume screener had been trained on CVs of employees already at the firm, giving people extra marks if they listed "baseball" or "basketball" – hobbies that were linked to more successful staff, often men. Those who mentioned "softball" – typically women – were downgraded.

Marginalised groups often "fall through the cracks, because they have different hobbies, they went to different schools"

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[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Who puts hobbies on a resume?

[-] themelm@sh.itjust.works 15 points 9 months ago

You might if it was a lower level position and you had like helped run your team or something like that. Or maybe university sports. I had hockey team and my high school band on my resume until I had real experience. Talk up things like working with a team and our fundraising stuff. Proves you probably aren't a complete antisocial weirdo at the least.

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

But this article isn't about cashier jobs at your local jamb juice.

[-] themelm@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I dunno it doesn't really say does it? I kinda just skimmed it they could be fairly low level out of college type jobs.

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