AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants

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AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants

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.

Because these are cost-saving tools for multi-nationals with enormous capital footprints.

Hiring shitty employees is not a cost-saving measure.

McDonalds isn’t going anywhere

Something tells me McDonald’s hiring process is not too important.

Hiring shitty employees is not a cost-saving measure.

For low skill jobs, it absolutely is. Many of these employers will deliberately screen out “overqualified” applicants because they don’t want employees with the potential for better job prospects elsewhere.

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