AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants

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 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.

Buckshot strategy. (I apologize if the use of that term is disrespectful to your username). I applied to hundreds of jobs over the year. Some had intermediate/junior in the position. Some were just at companies I wanted to be at more, even if not that role specifically.

You've not looked at job postings in a while, have you?

No one is "qualified" for anything anymore. I've literally seen postings with requirements like "8 years experience with [Programming Language]" when said language was only created 3 years ago.

They're all written by HR drones with zero understanding of the actual needs of the department they're hiring for.

You have to apply for things you're unqualified for if you want to get anywhere now.

"qualified" is a loaded term. Industry or product knowledge go a long way to succeed in quite a few businesses.

As an example "Unqualified" for sales might just mean the applicant doesn't have an MBA or whatever other degree, even though they have dealt with break fix service and other solution oriented work.

Similarly, if a sales rep went into installation or project management they would have a leg up.

I don't think you know how LLM's are trained then. It can become racist by mistake.

An example is, that there's 100.000 white people and 50.000 black people in a society. The statistic shows that there has been hired 50% more white people than black. What does this tell you?

Obvious! There's also 50% more white people to begin with, so black and white people are hired at the same rate! But what does the AI see?

It sees 50% increase in hiring white people. And then it can lean towards doing the same.

You see how this was / is in no way racist, but it ends up as it, as a consequence of something completely different.

TLDR People are still racist though, but it's not always why the AI is.

White text on a white page?

Are you a recruiter or someone making HR software?

You can. It's just not new, not news.

Prompt injection for the win.

Spending more and more of my time learning to game the algorithm so I can work a job that pays me under the cost of living?

But this article isn't about cashier jobs at your local jamb juice.

Unless you are freshly graduated, job experience should go before education. It's the most relevant info.