When companies use AI for job screening, how are people supposed to stand out? Journalist Hilke Schellmann says these tools are buggy and biased, so applicants need to rethink their resumes.
About Hilke Schellman
Hilke Schellmann is an investigative reporter and assistant professor of journalism at New York University.
She is the author of The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired, And Why We Need To Fight Back.
Schellmann created a four-part investigative podcast, In Machines We Trust, for MIT Technology Review.
Her PBS FRONTLINE documentary, Outlawed in Pakistan, won an Emmy, an Overseas Press Club and a Cinema for Peace Award.
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