AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants
AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants
an AI resume screener had been trained on CVs of employees already at the firm, giving people extra marks if they listed "baseball" or "basketball" – hobbies that were linked to more successful staff, often men. Those who mentioned "softball" – typically women – were downgraded.
Marginalised groups often "fall through the cracks, because they have different hobbies, they went to different schools"
Thats ok... Idiotic hiring practices will filter out the worst companies
They won't, though. Because these are cost-saving tools for multi-nationals with enormous capital footprints.
McDonalds isn't going anywhere, no matter how bad their hiring practices get. The only real risk they run is in their poor ability to bring people on quickly resulting in storefronts more vulnerable to unionization or other labor actions. But this is a business that's been vertically integrated for decades and subsists on enormous direct and indirect subsidies from every layer of government. They'll keep being fine unless the political conditions in this country change significantly.
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 a big part of that is their willingness to hire people who aren't good enough and then giving those people the training they need to succeed at work.
Choosing not to hire someone because they like baseball is insane and there's no way that would fly at McDonalds.
Actually, at least based on my area, McDonald's seems to be careful about hiring, or at least careful about not letting bad service creep in.
The food and overall experience is... fine, and you go there because you want food and you want it with little to no hassle and get the food reasonably quickly and expect them to get the order right. If the service is bad, then I'm going pretty much anywhere else, McDonald's is not worth putting up with crap service. A poor hiring practice coming around would tank the only reason to go there.
There are a number of other fast food places in the area I would tend to prefer, but avoid because their service just sucks, the order taker somehow not knowing the item you are ordering is on the menu, taking an eternity to make orders, and getting the orders wrong in the end, and then things like the fried food clearly being cooked in oil that needed to be changed a few batches ago. I've seen what poor hiring practices can do to a 'good' restaurant, I can only imagine what it would do if McDonald's had that problem.