There is a number floating around leadership circles right now…. 64% of leaders predict a full HR-IT merger within five years. Most people who read that stat nod, file it under “interesting,” and move on. I could not move on. Because hidden inside that prediction is a question nobody in HR is asking out loud….
I was sitting in an HRMS evaluation a couple of years ago when a vendor said the sentence that eventually became this article. We were deep into the demo. I asked how their screening algorithm ranked candidates…. what data it learned from, what it penalised, what it quietly rewarded. The salesperson smiled and said, “Ma’am,…
A friend of mine applied to a large tech company last year. She spent four hours on the application. Eleven minutes after submitting, she received a rejection. Not a polite one. A cold, auto-generated line that misspelled her name and thanked her for her interest in a role she had not applied for. No human…
