Speaker: Tom Cornell, Senior Organisational Psychology Consultant, HireVue

Summary:

HireVue undertook pioneering research to develop and implement a new approach to reducing bias in pre-employment testing, focusing on AI-scored interviews. Multipenalty optimization is a new technique that is demonstrated to be more effective than current methods at mitigating bias whilst maintaining assessment accuracy, producing both a fairer and more predictive assessment. This approach was incorporated into HireVue assessment models in August 2021 and has positively contributed to customers such as The Co-operative Bank achieving their DE&I goals. The approach has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology and has been open-sourced, advancing standards in mitigating bias across the entire industry.

The webinar will provide a background around algorithmic bias and application of AI in assessments, before discussing the new approach to bias mitigation and its application within a specific customer content.

Biog:

Tom Cornell is a Senior Organisational Psychology Consultant at HireVue, where he specialises in the development and delivery of HireVue’s interview and game-based assessments. As part of HireVue, he blends traditional psychometric theory with artificial intelligence and a technology-driven approach to achieve a more satisfactory solution to pre-hiring assessments and hiring automation.

In his 6 years at HireVue, Tom has been based out of different locations in Europe and in Australia, working with customers and managing partners across the globe. He has previously worked at MindX, which was acquired by HireVue in 2018. He holds an MSc in Occupational Psychology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is now based out of Copenhagen.

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