[BenLurkin]

Firms that are populated only by high-achieving test takers could run the risk of becoming full of people who are all the same from similar schools, or with the same types of education, similar personality traits, or the same views.

So what?

The company is in business to make money -- it should get the best team available.

Even if they all went to the same college.

[Objective Scrutator]

Why not cut the government down to a size at which it can be run entirely by computers? A single computer can easily replace 100 retarded government union bureaucrats who are paid $300,000 each.

[central_va]

What is being described in the article is totally illegal.

Please read the SCOTUS decision in Griggs vs Duke Power Co.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They are asking HR people not managers to make the hiring decisions and they wonder why they are not able to make quality picks?

Really?

They are that dense?

HR people should only be allowed to hire for the HR department. They have no idea how the other departments work or what they need. They have no idea of the nuances of personality that you look for in a lab tech and how that differs from what you look for in a salesman.

They can measure skills somewhat but unless they spend a great deal of time in a department they have no idea what is needed to fit into that department.

[Myrddin]

When hiring software developers for my projects, it is common practice to do a group interview with the candidate and current team members. That reduces redundancy of questions asked and gauges the ability of the candidate to fit and work with the team. Often we have a few candidates in the running and whittle down to the best fits. To get to the group interview, you have to already meet the requirements to do the job. Successful hires have a responsibility to acquire a clearance at the requisite level within 6 months of hire (although some wiggle room is permitted with respect to DISA processing schedules).

[Vince Ferrer]

First of all, algorithms already have an enormous influence on hiring. If you apply to a job online at most companies today, those jobs have dozens to hundreds of people applying for them. HR departments are not large enough to give every applicant a lengthy consideration. 75% of resumes are never read. The ones that do get read get flagged by the company's application scanning algorithms first, and forwarded to a human.

Secondly, the article danced around one of the big reasons why a company would use discretion, racial and gender quotas. The government will never stop social engineering, but they find it too distasteful to be obvious about it. So they would never require software to pick a certain percentage from bucket A and a certain percentage from bucket B. They need to be discrete, so they have to keep humans in the loop.

[Nifster]

Computers already scan your resume to see if you have right buzz words in it

[wetgundog]

Computers are racist because they were programmed by white privileged people. /sarc.

[Rashputin]

Well sure, and the folks who have a neat computer model of the environment that absolutely proves global warming is real and CO2 is the problem can program the computers that will make the decision !!

Great idea !!!

[lastchance]

“The tests included not only questions about technical and cognitive skills, but also questions to assess personality..”
AKA as MMPI which should be reviewed and graded only by a trained mental health professional who has the test taker as a patient or will be submitting the test results to the patient’s doctor. It is a gross invasion of privacy to make a psych eval part of the initial screening process for potential hires.

[V K Lee]

Not to wander off the beaten trail, but why not take it to computers to decide just who would be ideal as our next President? There was a SiFi story written years ago with this plot. Haven’t a clue of author nor title. Highly intelligent and quality individuals attempted to out-smart the computer. If no individual was found, the computer (naturally) took the position.

*Colossus: The Forbin Project* used this plot roughly in the movie. Rather than President the computer(s) took over the national security issues.

If computers can play chess why not. We’ve given the position to won with far less experience.

[rawcatslyentist]

that type of diversity, too, has been proven to be an increasingly important factor in overall firm performance.

So they say, but they also say a lot that aint so.

[Impy]

My spellcheck still doesn’t think “Obama” is a word.

[Secret Agent Man]

If so the best job in the world will be the guy who programs those computers.

[Carry_Okie]

Think: “e-Verify,” and be afraid, very afraid.

[ronnie raygun]

Computers can be corrupted by thier owners installing affirmative action software, white privileged software,AND black lives matter software

[trebb]

Suuuuure - the old "it's who counts the votes" meme would be replaced by "it's who programs the computer"....

I realize this isn't about elections...........yet, but it struck me as a step in that direction.

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[DH]

The most important thing that computers don’t understand is THE WORK ETHIC!

[redfreedom]

The problem is people lie. They will cheat on the answers, BS their way through interviews.

Upper management hired a guy for me at my last place of work. I interviewed him and found him to be dumb. The boss said he had excellent references. He was hired and turned out not just to be incompetent, but a trouble maker. I called his former co-workers and it appeared they all lied just to get rid of him.

My point is there is no perfect way to get help. What needs to be done is streamline ways to fire the poor ones.

[tbw2]

Computers can also be programmed to accept the person who has the most demographic check boxes per the day’s political correctness standards, regardless of abrasive personality or hatred of everyone else.
Then you have TRUE institutional racism, when the person who has white and male checked off never gets hired per the hiring algorithm.