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Job seekers are increasingly being asked to pass a series of tests in the form of AI games just to land an interview with a hiring manager. If you’re applying for a job, you listen to this episode of the #InMachinesWeTrust podcast. Thread. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pla…
Sally (a pseudonym to protect her identity) is a job seeker, a military veteran & a Black woman with a grad degree in information with specialties in data science & interaction design. She fails to see how solving a timed puzzle has any real bearing on her potential to succeed.
She says she’s tried everything to succeed at these games but without success. She was rejected from multiple jobs she applied to that required these games.
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If you’ve applied for a job lately, it’s all but guaranteed that your application was reviewed by software, in most cases, before a human ever laid eyes on it. This is a thread about episode one of our four-part investigation into the world of automated hiring.
In the first podcast episode of this series, we speak with the CEOs of @ZipRecruiter and @CareerBuilder, and one of the architects of @LinkedIn’s algorithmic job-matching system, to explore how AI is increasingly playing job matchmaker. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hir…
Most of the Fortune 500 already use some kind of AI to screen job applications, says @HilkeSchellmann, who reported this episode and wrote the accompanying story below. That includes @Unilever, @McDonalds, and @IBM and many, many other large companies. technologyreview.com/2021/06/23/102…
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This thread is about how artificial intelligence learns to communicate—and what it means for the humans on the other end of the conversation. LISTEN to the full podcast episode of #InMachinesWeTrust: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wha…
You heard that right. We called up the original voice of Siri for this podcast episode. And @SiriouslySusan tells us she had no idea her voice would become the one that millions would associate with Apple devices.
Our very own @charlottejee also turns her parents into voice assistants. She and her family worked with HereAfter, one of a slew of companies preserving the memory of our loved ones... by creating interactive, digital versions of them.
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