She started looking at how entry-level employers hire and filter out candidates.
By using relevant keywords, recruiters and hiring managers filter the number of candidates who come up in a search, and they find highly targeted candidates.
While Gmail and other popular email clients offer filters to help users tame the email fire hose, GroupTalent wants to apply those "commercial" spam filters to hiring; in other words, to weed out "job spam".
We need robust research on hiring algorithms that seem to filter out people with mental health disorders, sentencing algorithms that fail twice as often for black defendants as for white defendants, statistically flawed public teacher assessments or oppressive scheduling algorithms.
The same filter applies to hiring internally.
Recruiters and hiring managers with job openings must filter through application after application, resume after resume.
The keyword-based filter at the top of the hiring funnel of most employers has a number of interesting knock-on effects.
The second is that employers need to escape the tyranny of the keyword-based filter at the top of their hiring funnel.
Interviewing and hiring talent is more about love and luck than filtering and assessment.
Automatically filtering out benign posts is more efficient than hiring managers scouring by hand, as many do now, Mones said.
