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Identity Nullification #1

Open never2average opened 4 years ago

never2average commented 4 years ago

The recruiter should not have access to your identity in terms of color/caste/religion/gender/orientation and so on in order to prevent any sort of intrinsic bias in the mind of the interviewer. In order to do so, we have to convert the CV into a neutral format so that the machine that screens these CVs cannot make any decisions. Also, given a bunch of CVs, we need to be able to rank them.

never2average commented 4 years ago

Once we have discussed this issue, we will break it down into sub-issues. This is just the topic.

yashagarwal1999 commented 4 years ago

Hey @never2average. If we mask or hide the applicant's name from the CV we can eliminate color/caste/religion/gender/orientation bias.

never2average commented 4 years ago

Yes, but from other texts as well, we need to remove pronouns too

never2average commented 4 years ago

The candidate picture needs to be removed as well. If present.

AmoghSinha commented 4 years ago

Suppose the recruiter contains some pre-conceived notions about a particular country. And some applicant is from that said country. Keeping this scenario in mind, is it possible to remove the column of college or country? Thanks.

sarveshwar22 commented 4 years ago

The candidate previous background also needs to be removed.

never2average commented 4 years ago

@AmoghSinha that is possible definitely, so the college can be replaced by a metric(ex: that represents its international rank) and the relocation cost the company for that candidate(the main reason why country might be important)

never2average commented 4 years ago

@sarveshwar22 what previous background are you trying to remove and how would this help seem unclear?

TarangAgarwal commented 4 years ago

@AmoghSinha that is possible definitely, so the college can be replaced by a metric(ex: that represents its international rank) and the relocation cost the company for that candidate(the main reason why country might be important)

Does something similar also need to be done for the previous company(s) the applicant has worked for?

never2average commented 4 years ago

@TarangAgarwal Can be a possibility

shubhamrgandhi commented 4 years ago

Although professionals do not include photographs, we could double-check just to be sure and remove the photographs from the resume, if there and notify the applicant about the same. Just an idea.