HireVue

What's fascinating here is that hiring bias is expanding far beyond just text on a page.

The sources look at video analysis tools from companies like HireVue and Pymetrics.

These systems use AI to analyze candidates during automated video interviews.

They track micro expressions, facial movements, eye contact and vocal pitch to generate an employability score.

What do you, what do you think about, um, the idea of an AI doing, um, interview screening, like a true conversation? What do you think about that? So

when I was at Raytheon years ago, uh, We used HireVue when they were way back in the

early days.

And back then I found that it really only worked for the high volume stuff.

Yeah, my son went through that.

It was the HireVue first, which is kind of like an AI interview, and then Super Day.

So what I did, so I've conducted over a thousand interviews in my career.

Let me show you what I've done here.

Has this great potential, but at the end of the day, it is still a tool, and it's how that tool is used that is most important.

If we just look at the recruiting side of the world, um, Amazon, uh, had, uh, had to cancel their AI-driven recruitment tool because it penalized, uh, basically resumes that contained the word "woman." And then HireVue had an automated speech recognition, uh, transcripts for interviews, and unfortunately it, it disadvantaged those who are non-white native English speakers and for deaf applicants, because it was more assessing how well a person spoke in English than the quality of what they're saying.

So we have to be aware of what the great potential it has, but also that it is a tool for us to understand how we can use it.

And so we think that there are probably around six areas that you should consider when it comes to digital accessibility and AI.

Now it's crawling into the actual interview on both sides.

So HireVue reckons their AI judges candidates on evidence and structure, not just how polished they sound.

And Interviewa.ai flags candidates who use AI-generated answers and switch browsers mid-chat.

The interesting thing is, in the past, interviews were where candidates were being judged, but now it looks like both interviewers and candidates are being judged as they go, and the robots are really starting to take over, Lauren.

I've made mistakes myself.

And increasingly, there's these recorded platforms like HireVue.

So don't let technology be the reason that you lose.

Test your camera, your microphone, and your internet ahead of time in a quiet, well-lit room.