{"id":9306,"date":"2017-09-20T19:27:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T19:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/pymetrics-attacks-discrimination-in-hiring-with-ai-and-recruiting-games.html"},"modified":"2017-09-20T19:27:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T19:27:23","slug":"pymetrics-attacks-discrimination-in-hiring-with-ai-and-recruiting-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/pymetrics-attacks-discrimination-in-hiring-with-ai-and-recruiting-games.html","title":{"rendered":"Pymetrics attacks discrimination in hiring with AI and recruiting games"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Identify the traits of your top performing employees and hire people like them, but without the discrimanatory bias of traditional recruiting. That\u2019s the promise of Pymetrics<\/a>, an artificial intelligence startup that today announced $8 million in new funding on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Pymetrics\u2019 goal is \u201cmaking the world a fairer place\u201d by dismantling hiring discrimination like sexism, racism, agees, and classism.<\/p>\n

Anyone can play the Pymetrics test games<\/a> and get scored on different hireable traits, plus see suggestions for job types they\u2019d be great at. You can watch my interview with Pymetrics\u2019 CEO Frida Polli below:<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how it works. A company\u2019s all-star employees play Pymetrics\u2019 set of games that assess things like memory, emotion detection, risk-taking, fairness, and focus. Pymetrics determines what traits equate to high performance for specific roles in the company.<\/p>\n

Then recruiting candidates take the same test, which is scored by AI instead of humans so a person\u2019s name, gender, skin, color, age, or resume aren\u2019t factored in. Finally, Pymetrics recommends companies hire people who are similar on the inside to their best workers, but not necessarily on the outside.<\/p>\n

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The result is a hiring process that doesn\u2019t preference white guys from elite schools who were on the sailing team just like the recruiter. Instead, it finds the best people for the job, regardless of their backgrounds. That leads companies to find amazing talent that\u2019s been overlooked because of what they look like, or because they went to community college or haven\u2019t worked at popular companies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe resume is the most biased piece of information used in the hiring process\u201d says Polli. The average resume gets scanned for six-seconds, and mostly just surfaces name-brand experience that looks good on paper rather than what makes someone good at a job. \u201cGoogle did the famous study of resumes and performance test scores, and found an extremely small correlation\u201d Polli tells TechCrunch.<\/p>\n

Pymetrics\u2019 insights can make companies better at hiring at a time when it\u2019s becoming clear that talent is the big differentiator between success and failure. That\u2019s why\u00a0JAZZ Venture Partners led the $8 million Series B, and its partner Zach Lynch will join the startup\u2019s board. The round also\u00a0includes return support from Khosla Ventures, Randstad Innovation Fund, and BBG Ventures. Pymetrics also received a grant from The Rockefeller Foundation that will fund access to the software for companies that use it to hire high-potential at-risk youth.<\/p>\n

Bringing Pymetrics to $17 million in total funding, the new capital will go towards expanding Pymetrics\u2019 London and Singapore sales office as the company seeks to sign more international clients. It\u2019s already working with 50 enterprise clients including huge companies like Accenture as well as Unilever, which recently put 250,000 of its employees through the Pymetrics test games. Polli says the company drastically increased the quality of candidates it brought in for interviews, becoming 100% more likely to hire them. It also hired new types of people, like one who\u2019d never been on a plane before.<\/p>\n

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But Polli stresses that the goal isn\u2019t to replace recruiters with AI, or make companies more efficient so they can lay off employees. Instead, its goal is to let employers reassign their recruiters from haphazard resume-scanning to outreach so they improve their candidate pool. Similarly, instead of eliminating jobs with fewer more skilled employees, Pymetrics believes employers can get staff working on harder problems to boost the business\u2019 top line.<\/p>\n

The challenge will be getting recruiters to adopt this bold new model of hiring, and overcoming their fears of being made obsolete.<\/p>\n

I tried Pymetrics\u2019 battery of games and not only were they fun, but they made me assess what traits I could improve in myself. It\u2019s time we moved past using Ivy League degrees, past lucky breaks, and discriminatory pattern matching to sort people into careers. We have the technology to understand people\u2019s underlying skills. With AI that doesn\u2019t see race or sex or expensive suits, merit can shine through.<\/p>\n

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