NPR noted this morning that several of the AI gatekeepers who do the initial screening of applications are biased against Blacks and Asians, and maybe 50% of your applications are going to companies which use the same AI, so half those individual opportunities are really just one racist rejection. (If you aren’t Asian or Black you could still be getting screened out of 50% of jobs by one thing the AI is rejecting.)
Smaller companies are less likely to have AI screening for applications. Pretty sure my job didn’t have it and the very first contact I had was with a person, CV only application, maybe a couple check boxes like “are you in or willing to travel to <town>” that took a few seconds when sending it.
NPR noted this morning that several of the AI gatekeepers who do the initial screening of applications are biased against Blacks and Asians, and maybe 50% of your applications are going to companies which use the same AI, so half those individual opportunities are really just one racist rejection. (If you aren’t Asian or Black you could still be getting screened out of 50% of jobs by one thing the AI is rejecting.)
Smaller companies are less likely to have AI screening for applications. Pretty sure my job didn’t have it and the very first contact I had was with a person, CV only application, maybe a couple check boxes like “are you in or willing to travel to <town>” that took a few seconds when sending it.