Connecting the Right Skills with the Right Roles
For human resources professionals and recruiters, traditional methods of hiring are showing major flaws. Educational attainment and past job titles are proving to be a poor shorthand for the skills a person needs to succeed in a role, not to mention what traits someone needs to grow over the course of a career.
Key Takeaways
- ✓ To identify unconscious bias in ourselves and in the hiring software we use, the first step is to bring potential biases into conscious awareness.
- ✓ Emphasize an ethical component to hiring.
- ✓ AI can only spot patterns or make predictions from the data it has. If its data set contains unconscious biases, its results will perpetuate those biases.
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