"What many applicants may not realize is that, nowadays, the first hurdle in applying for a job is dealing with AI. Candidates now often must clear an artificial intelligence system that screens their résumés that quietly determines who advances, and whose application is filed away in a drawer or spam folder, never to see the light of day."
"Eightfold AI's algorithm trawls career sites, job boards, and résumé databases to create a data set of "1 million job titles, 1 million skills, and the profiles of more than 1 billion people working in every job, profession, industry, and geography", according to their website-much of it "inaccurate, incomplete, or drawn from unknown third-party sources," the complaint alleges."
Artificial-intelligence systems increasingly screen résumés and determine which applicants advance without applicants' knowledge or input. Two California workers sued Eightfold AI under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, alleging the company compiled reports used to screen job candidates without consent or any opportunity to correct errors. The plaintiffs applied to roles at companies that use Eightfold, including PayPal and Microsoft, and reported extremely low progression to interviews. According to the complaint, Eightfold aggregates massive datasets from career sites, job boards, and résumé databases, allegedly including inaccurate or third-party information, and scores applications on a one-to-five scale.
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