Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants

• abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  McDonalds isn’t going anywhere, no matter how bad their hiring practices get.

  I disagree. Screwing up your hiring process is a Darwin Award level mistake for a company. McDonalds is very very good at hiring people and by far their biggest strength is their willingness to hire people who aren’t good enough and then giving those people the training they need to succeed at work.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I disagree. Screwing up your hiring process is a Darwin Award level mistake for a company.

    Its only a screw-up if it upsets your investors. And it does not seem like the McDonalds EBITDA has suffered over the past few years.

    Choosing not to hire someone because they like baseball is insane

    The AI tool - according to the article - is using baseball and softball as a proxy for determining whether the applicant is a man or a woman, and biasing its selection accordingly. That’s not insane. Its just prejudiced in a manner that evades our comically ill-enforced nondiscrimination enforcement codes.

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    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      McDonald’s actually did suffer in some regard recently. Execs have admitted they need to lower prices or they’ll lose business.

      I think the thing is, companies always go too far eventually. At some point, they cross the line and have to walk it back. We’ll probably see the same thing here. Recruiters will use more and more AI until someone crosses the line, and then there’ll be a rapid retreat.

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Execs have admitted they need to lower prices or they’ll lose business.

        They saw a 40% EBITDA spike in 2022. Then they came off their peak by ten points in 2023.

        Overall, enormous net growth.

        Recruiters will use more and more AI until someone crosses the line, and then there’ll be a rapid retreat.

        Recruiters won’t exist once businesses fully integrate AI. All you’ll have is performance tuning of the automated hiring tools.

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because these are cost-saving tools for multi-nationals with enormous capital footprints.

  Hiring shitty employees is not a cost-saving measure.

  McDonalds isn’t going anywhere

  Something tells me McDonald’s hiring process is not too important.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hiring shitty employees is not a cost-saving measure.

    For low skill jobs, it absolutely is. Many of these employers will deliberately screen out “overqualified” applicants because they don’t want employees with the potential for better job prospects elsewhere.

    Prison labor has become an increasingly common form of low wage service work, precisely because these workers have no leverage to negotiate salary or hours.

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