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Job Seeker Insights
Why Great Candidates Get Cut at First Impressions
Our friend’s son is a great baseball player. But, according to some people, he doesn’t look like one.
A little stocky, and admittedly maybe even slightly chubby, he was originally cut from his middle-school baseball team by a coach who didn’t see his potential. First impressions apparently hurt him during the tryouts.
He ended up being a big star in high school. Colleges would’ve drooled over him, but he didn’t fit the ideal “look” of a baseball player. We’re not saying he was big like Bartolo Colon, but a little stocky by college baseball standards.
A small southern college signed him. Again, like in high school, he was a huge success. He may not look like an amazing outfielder — he just is. So many colleges ignored him, making a big mistake. Just like his middle-school coach at the tryouts.
This same thing keeps happening to a great many young athletes. You may remember the movie Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt. It was based on the true story of Billy Beane, a former baseball player. Beane says of why he was drafted so high: “I passed ‘the eye test.’ I looked terrific in a baseball uniform, and I was the homecoming king of my high school. All things that have absolutely nothing to do with being a baseball player.”
You may be wondering what this has to do with our AI hiring platform.
People are screened out of jobs for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with their potential success on the job. They’re wrongly perceived as too quiet and thus not ‘passionate’; they don’t make the right eye contact; they are allegedly too bubbly or too serious; they swear too much, or even too little. One company even said it hired people who were funny and quirky, but not if the candidate was too funny and quirky … that’s weird.
No wonder job seekers often feel like they can’t win.
Just like technology could be used to assess baseball players, measuring their bat speed and not their waist size, it can be used to measure people based on their skills and potential. AI can give people a chance to talk about what they have accomplished, and how they accomplished it, without a wandering human mind deciding to judge them based on something else, like their body language, and without someone using interview questions about how they spend their free time.
Conducting a first interview with a job candidate can help you spot talent you may be overlooking and stop a screener from ruling someone out based on superficial reasons. It can get to know someone beyond what’s in their resume. A human will be there for the next round of interviews, knowing that some of the most sophisticated technology out there has picked that person for a second interview out of thousands of applicants, based solely on their ability to do a great job.
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