Playing the job market In Machines We Trust

Increasingly, job seekers need to pass a series of ‘tests’ in the form of artificial intelligence games—just to be seen by a hiring manager. In this third, of a four-part miniseries on AI and hiring, we speak to someone who helped create these tests, we ask who might get left behind in the process and why there isn’t more policy in place. We also try out some of these tools ourselves.

We Meet:
Matthew Neale, Vice President of Assessment Products, Criteria Corp. 
Frida Polli, CEO, Pymetrics 
Henry Claypool, Consultant and former Obama Administration Member, Commission on Long-Term Care
Safe Hammad, CTO, Arctic Shores  
Alexandra Reeve Givens, President and CEO, Center for Democracy and Technology
Nathaniel Glasser, Employment Lawyer, Epstein Becker Green
Keith Sonderling, Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

We Talked To: 
Aaron Rieke, Managing Director, Upturn
Adam Forman, Employment Lawyer, Epstein Becker Green
Brian Kropp, Vice President Research, Gartner
Josh Bersin, Research Analyst
Jonathan Kestenbaum, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Talent Tech Labs
Frank Pasquale, Professor, Brooklyn Law School
Patricia (Patti) Sanchez, Employment Manager, MacDonald Training Center 
Matthew Neale, Vice President of Assessment Products, Criteria Corp. 
Frida Polli, CEO, pymetrics 
Henry Claypool, Consultant and former Obama Administration Member, Commission on Long-Term Care
Safe Hammad, CTO, Arctic Shores  
Alexandra Reeve Givens, President and CEO, Center for Democracy and Technology
Nathaniel Glasser, Employment Lawyer, Epstein Becker Green
Keith Sonderling, Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

Sounds From:
*Science 4-Hire, podcast
*Matthew Kirkwold’s cover of XTC’s, Complicated Game, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tumM_6YYeXs

Credits:
This miniseries on hiring was reported by Hilke Schellmann and produced by Jennifer Strong, Emma Cillekens, Anthony Green and Karen Hao. We’re edited by Michael Reilly.