Job postings attract lots of applicants in this economy — but experts say there need to be some rules of the road when it comes to using AI and other new technology. Job seekers are sometimes using AI to cheat in interviews, highlighting flaws in the hiring process.
The rise of certain tech has made it easier to deceive interviewers.
Experts suggest clearer guidelines and tech solutions to address cheating and improve hiring.
The interviewer asks you a question. You start reading a response generated by artificial intelligence from the side of your screen — maybe even using another app to make it appear your eyes are fixed on the camera.
It can feel like there are endless ways to dupe a hiring manager in a job interview — especially one that doesn’t involve meeting IRL. The internet is, of course, filled with posts about how people try to sneak past the difficult questions interviewers sometimes ask.
It all points to a hiring process that can be terrible for job seekers — and for employers.
Execs told Business Insider that to improve the hiring process, more conversations will need to be had about what constitutes cheating . Many employers will also need to better explain how the application process will unfold so fewer job seekers might be tempted to get sneaky.
"A lot of the efforts to cheat come from the fact that hiring is so broken. So you’re just like, ‘Oh my God, how do I get through? How do I get seen? How to get assessed fairly?’" Lindsey Zuloaga, chief data scientist at HireVue, told BI. Is using AI during a job interview cheating?
Part of the problem now is that not everyone agrees on what’s unethical. There are easy calls, like having someone feed you answers during an interview. But what about a quick internet search to look something up? Or how about having an AI bot ingest a job description and toss out questions that could come up in an interview?Zuloaga pointed to using chatbots to complete coding challenges as one example of a question without a clear […]
Job seekers are getting increasingly bold by ‘cheating’ in interviews — and AI is making it worse
