Google Uses Algorithm To Fill Jobs?

[HardOCP News]

This is one of those stories that is so strange it has to be true. According to the NY Times, Google uses an algorithm to match applicants to jobs. The company receives something like 100,000 applications a month.

Google — in typical eccentric fashion — has created an automated way to search for talent among the more than 100,000 job applications it receives each month. It is starting to ask job applicants to fill out an elaborate online survey that explores their attitudes, behavior, personality and biographical details going back to high school.

 

[Martyr]

the problem with algorithms is that people write them.

 

[Sigma_Hyperion]

Actually, a very large percentage of corporations use computers to "fill jobs" or at least select applicants. There is off-the-shelf software made explicitly for this purpose. Various search technologies scan the submitted resumes for ones that it believes will best match the desired attributes. These applicants are then given the surveys (similar to the one that Google gives pre-emptively on its' site) when they come in, usually for a first-interview, and those tests/surveys are either ran through a program or submitted to a company for scoring. Then, supposedly, the business can tell all sorts of things about you.

 

[Silentbob343]

Actually, a very large percentage of corporations use computers to "fill jobs" or at least select applicants. There is off-the-shelf software made explicitly for this purpose. Various search technologies scan the submitted resumes for ones that it believes will best match the desired attributes. These applicants are then given the surveys (similar to the one that Google gives pre-emptively on its' site) when they come in, usually for a first-interview, and those tests/surveys are either ran through a program or submitted to a company for scoring. Then, supposedly, the business can tell all sorts of things about you.

Even part time jobs use the computerized surveys.