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The quiet creep of AI into hiring decisions worries me

Cautious Posted by Camille Berthelot Reading time ~ 2 min

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I have been a recruiter in the Paris tech scene for nine years, most recently at a mid-sized company. Over the past two years I have watched AI screening tools move from a curiosity to a default, and I think we are not being honest with candidates about what is happening. On our side these tools rank applicants, summarize CVs, and sometimes score video interviews. On the candidate side, people are using assistants to tailor CVs and draft cover letters for dozens of roles at a time. The result is a machine-vs-machine filter that, in my honest experience, has not improved the quality of our hires and has certainly made rejections feel more impersonal. I am not against the tools. I use them myself when I write job descriptions. But I think candidates deserve to know when an automated system has made an adverse decision, what signals it used, and how to contest it. The French and European framework points in this direction and I think enforcement is what will matter. I would also like my profession to have a more honest conversation about whether a fifteen-second video analysis is a fair way to judge a human being. We keep saying AI saves us time. Sometimes it just lets us pretend we are being rigorous while we skim.
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