As for the concorso reforms, one of the chief problems these aim to tackle is a lack of rigorous and independent evaluation of applicants.
Hsieh 2005 presented a hybrid approach combining clustering analysis with neural networks for individual credit and demonstrated that the hybrid approach was a potential tool for the evaluation of applicants' credit scores.
Thus, even if the average employer of college graduates kept his biased evaluation of applicants stuck in the 1970s, with a constant tilting toward male résumés, his pool of employees would include more women as the applicant pool became more feminized.
Such fears are common among students--and may be well-founded, because some state medical licensing boards can require formal psychiatric evaluations of applicants who report being treated for mental illness.
Admission is competitive and decisions are based on evaluations of applicants' intellectual ability, social and emotional maturity, and readiness for the accelerated program of study.
Though no longer formally obligatory, research proposals were important for applicants who applied for the competitive university research scholarship where evaluation of the applicant's potential to conduct research became a decisive factor in the admission process.
In order to be granted a Flexjob, an individual assessment is made based on medical examination and caseworker evaluation of the applicant's degree of reduced working capacity.
Yet, this annual exam has a fixed format for all disciplines and dose not include any components on the evaluation of the applicants' psychological traits and required personality features.
A hiring decision was eventually made based on an integrative calculation of an applicant's certifiable qualifications (shown via objective evaluations of the applicant's resume, as well as performance in the test and interviews) and non-certifiable qualifications (through evaluating the applicant's references).
Statistical discrimination against ex-offenders can occur if employers base their evaluation of an individual applicant on group-level information, such as ex-offenders on average being less reliable or ex-offenders on average having lower productivity than non-offenders.
