Navigating Automated Hiring: Perceptions, Strategy Use, and Outcomes Among Young Job Seekers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05099v1
• Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2025 17:18:07 GMT
• Title: Navigating Automated Hiring: Perceptions, Strategy Use, and Outcomes Among Young Job Seekers
• Authors: Lena Armstrong, Danaé Metaxa,
• Abstract summary: We conducted a survey with 448 computer science students about perceptions of the procedural fairness of automated employment decision tools (AEDTs)<n>We find that young job seekers' perceptions of and willingness to be evaluated by AEDTs varied with the level of automation involved and the technical nature of the task being evaluated.<n>Our work speaks to young job seekers' distrust of automation in hiring contexts, as well as the continued role of social and socioeconomic privilege in job seeking.
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• Abstract: As the use of automated employment decision tools (AEDTs) has rapidly increased in hiring contexts, especially for computing jobs, there is still limited work on applicants' perceptions of these emerging tools and their experiences navigating them. To investigate, we conducted a survey with 448 computer science students (young, current technology job-seekers) about perceptions of the procedural fairness of AEDTs, their willingness to be evaluated by different AEDTs, the strategies they use relating to automation in the hiring process, and their job seeking success. We find that young job seekers' procedural fairness perceptions of and willingness to be evaluated by AEDTs varied with the level of automation involved in the AEDT, the technical nature of the task being evaluated, and their own use of strategies, such as job referrals. Examining the relationship of their strategies with job outcomes, notably, we find that referrals and family household income have significant and positive impacts on hiring success, while more egalitarian strategies (using free online coding assessment practice or adding keywords to resumes) did not. Overall, our work speaks to young job seekers' distrust of automation in hiring contexts, as well as the continued role of social and socioeconomic privilege in job seeking, despite the use of AEDTs that promise to make hiring "unbiased."

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