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Auditing for Bias in Resume Search Engines

05/21/2019 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM in Cambridge (United States of America)

There is growing awareness and concern about the role of automation in hiring, and the potential for these tools to reinforce historic inequalities in the labor market. In this work, Wilson and his team perform an algorithm audit of the resume search engines offered by several of the largest online hiring platforms, to understand the relationship between a candidate's gender and their rank in search results. They audit these platform with respect to individual and group fairness, as well as indirect and direct discrimination. 

Christo Wilson's homepage here

Investigating the Impact of Gender on Rank in Resume by Le Chen, Ruijun Ma, Anikó Hannák and Christo Wilson

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