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Am I the only one who watched a hiring bot reject a guy in 8 seconds at a job fair in Dallas
Went to a trade job fair last month and watched a booth screen scan a guy's resume for maybe 8 seconds before flashing a red X. He had 15 years on commercial jobs and never got to say a word to a human. How many good people are we quietly filtering out before anyone even looks at them?
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casey1618d ago
Saw a story about a guy auto rejected over one missing keyword.
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hugo_schmidt18d ago
That story about getting auto rejected over one missing keyword is wild but it fits a pattern I keep seeing. We let machines make calls that used to need a human brain, and nobody checks the machine. My bank froze my card last month because a grocery store purchase looked odd, and the app just said no with no way to explain. These systems are trained to spot what looks normal, so if you write your resume or live your life slightly off script, you get flagged. The scary part is the person on the other end never even sees you, so there is no one to argue your case to. It is like the whole world got a spam filter and we all live inside it now.
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