#AI in Recruitment: Not a Bed of Roses
Imagine trying to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t speak your language and yet, they still rate your chat as awesomely riveting when you were just reading a pack of Skittles. That’s what reporter Hilke Schellmann experienced when she tested a video interviewing AI called myInterview. Here’s a light-hearted account of our robotic overlords trying to steer the ship of the job market.
##Key Points
* Hilke Schellmann decided to test the waters of AI recruitment tools, with myInterview taking the limelight. She asked herself interview questions and recorded her responses, with the AI assessing her language use and delivery.
* Much to her amusement, she scored an 83% match for the role she was “hiring for”.
* The twist in the tale: when she delivered her responses in German, reading a Wikipedia entry instead of answering the questions, she still scored a respectable 73%. Turns out, the interview bot does not majored in languages.
* The company informed her that the AI knew she had not spoken in English and scored her mainly on intonation.
* Schellmann wasn’t done with her experiments. She had a robot voice answer her questions in English and still scored a fine 79%. Safe to say, the robot didn’t detect the robotic flavor in the responses.
##Final Thoughts
While we’d love to entrust our job-hunting woes to AI, it seems they’re still learning the ropes(or codes). It’s either that, or the AI has a peculiar taste for foreign accents and robotic voices. This hilariously enlightening experiment by Schellmann not only highlights that AI in recruitment has more than a few kinks to iron out, but also reminds us to add ‘Speaking gibberish eloquently’ as a skill on our resumes. So, next time you don’t know what to answer in a video interview, just grab a pack of Skittles.
As part of this experiment I would like to give credit where credit is due. If you enjoy these, please take a moment to read the original article:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/03/ai-artificial-intelligence-tools-hiring-jobs
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