Apr 22 2024 21 mins
A recent study showed that employers were close to 10% more likely to select resumes with “distinctively white” names for a job interview than resumes that had “distinctively Black” names.
On top of this fundamental bias issues, the problem with resumes is that they don’t reflect or predict who will be a high performer once hired. But HR departments and hiring managers still use them like diving rods to make some of their most consequential decisions: who to hire into the organization.
Catalyte CEO Matt Derella discusses this disconnect and why CEOs, CHROs and corporate boards should be pushing their organizations to use an AI, data-driven approach to hiring. Unless they want to be named in the next negative study on resumes.
On top of this fundamental bias issues, the problem with resumes is that they don’t reflect or predict who will be a high performer once hired. But HR departments and hiring managers still use them like diving rods to make some of their most consequential decisions: who to hire into the organization.
Catalyte CEO Matt Derella discusses this disconnect and why CEOs, CHROs and corporate boards should be pushing their organizations to use an AI, data-driven approach to hiring. Unless they want to be named in the next negative study on resumes.