As employers seek to diversify their hiring practices, AI can be an important tool to level the playing field.
Hiring platform Modern Hire has unveiled a new on-demand AI
The launch of the AIS program is part of an effort to ensure a more fair and unbiased hiring experience. Interviews are standardized and focus only on the job-related aspects of interviewee’s responses. Modern Hire says the AIS program can “reliably replicate the judgment of professionally trained experts,” when filling open positions.
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"Interviewing is a traditionally subjective and biased process, which can lead to interviewers incorporating factors that are unrelated to the job into their evaluation of candidates due to unconscious bias," Mike Hudy, chief science officer at Modern Hire, said in a release. "For the first time, our AIS solution ensures that interviews can be automatically scored in a way that replicates trained expert human raters increasing the fairness, consistency and transparency of interviews.”
Potential hires have a choice to use the AIS system during their interviews and can opt out. Candidates who do use the program will have their responses transcribed, without factoring in their image or voice, and scores will be based on job-relevant content. Each applicant’s answers will be measured against the core competencies required for the position.
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"It's our mission and responsibility to change hiring, for good. AI can help us solve some hard problems and the lack of equity and fairness in hiring is an important issue to fix," Karin Borchert, CEO of Modern Hire, said in a release. "It was clear to us early on that we had the opportunity and responsibility to rapidly apply high quality AI to help our clients build a more
