The Use of AI in HR: Challenges and Opportunities for AI Recruitment Technology’ panel event
The Use of AI in HR: Challenges and Opportunities for AI Recruitment Technology’ panel event
24th November, 6pm-7pm
This event will take place online: please register here or through the OII website.
The use of AI within HR is on the rise. This includes the use of talent and performance analytics, workplace monitoring, as well as the increasing use of recruitment technology. These rapid changes within the workplace are impacting the opportunities of millions of people and actively shaping the labour market, with the potential to worsen socio-economic inequalities. While there has been a lot written on this topic from both industry and academia, there has been very little discussion or dialogue between the two.
This panel discussion includes speakers from both the tech industry and from academia and will be driven by practical questions on the challenges and opportunities of AI in HR settings, in particular AI recruitment technology. The panel will discuss how and why these technologies have emerged, how they are designed, and how they intersect with issues such as discrimination, bias, data privacy and protection, consent, and wellbeing. The event hopes to attract members of the public as well as those in industry and academia.
This project is funded by the Minderoo AI Challenge Fund, supported by TORCH and external partner The Women’s Forum for Economy and Society.
Panellists:
Dr Nigel Guenole – Senior Lecturer and Director of Research for the Institute of Management at Goldsmiths, University of London
Khyati Sundaram – CEO at Applied
Dr Ali Siminovsky – Director of Product Science at The Predictive Index
Dr Sarah Myers West – Postdoctoral Researcher at AI Now Institute, New York University
Chaired by Jonathan Black - Director of the Careers Service at Oxford University
Panel Speakers:
Khyati Sundaram
Khyati Sundaram is the CEO of Applied, a behavioural science backed tool for smart & fair hiring. She’s had several past lives - an economist, investment banker, startup founder and CEO. Her breadth of experiences from behavioural science, data science and tech for good are valuable in creating the future of hiring at Applied.
Dr Sarah Myers West
Sarah Myers West has over a decade of experience working at the intersection of tech, labour and platform accountability. Her current project examines histories of resistance and organizing in the tech industry, positioning today's wave of tech worker organizing in a long trajectory of labour and social movements. As one of the creators of the Santa Clara Principles, her award-winning work also critically examines the political economy of technology companies. She received her doctoral degree in 2018 from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. She has published her writing in journals including New Media & Society, Social Studies of Science, the International Journal of Communication, Policy & Internet and Business and Society, and her research is featured in the Wall Street Journal, PBS, CBS, the Associated Press, and Motherboard, among others.
Dr Ali Siminovsky
Dr Ali Siminovsky is the Director of Product Science at The Predictive Index, a talent optimization software company. In this role, Ali works to maintain and build upon the integrity of science in PI’s software through psychometric research, active product ideation, development, and testing, and front-of-house support and education. Ali’s research interests largely focus on employee selection and psychometric measurement, including interventions and designs to increase assessment and survey approachability and effectiveness. Prior to joining The Predictive Index, Ali spent several years on the assessments and analytics teams at Novo Nordisk, primarily working with in-house clients to design and deploy hiring and developmental assessments. Ali completed her M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at the University of Georgia, and her B.B.A. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at CUNY Baruch College. Ali is based in Queens, New York.
Dr Nigel Guenole
Dr Nigel Guenole is Director of Research for the Institute of Management at Goldsmiths, University of London. His work focuses on improving the measurement precision of quantitative assessments of socioemotional skills used in human resources. For many years Nigel worked at IBM, where his work focused on validating measurement approaches for applications of artificial intelligence in Human Resources. This work involved developing and evaluating chatbots used in candidate attraction, examining the reliability and validity of resume parsing algorithms in personnel selection, and deploying virtual agent career coaches for personal development. He is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), registered with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC), and a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in the United States (SIOP).
Chaired by Jonathan Black
Jonathan Black has been Director of the Careers Service at Oxford University since 2008 after a broad career including in blue-chip management consultancy, international academic publishing, and co-founding a successful medical publishing start-up. Jonathan coaches students one-to-one, runs workshops and seminars for groups of undergraduates and postgraduates, trains colleagues, and devises new and innovative programmes that provide hands-on experiences for students. He works with senior academics to explore how the Careers Service can support academic work, presents at seminars and conferences in the UK, Europe, Australia, South Africa, and the USA, and runs research programmes on what is required in order to secure a graduate-level job. Jonathan writes the fortnightly, ‘Dear Jonathan’ column for readers’ careers questions in the Financial Times, and produced three short careers videos for the FT in July 2018 and anchored six 10-minute FT/YouTube careers videos launched in April 2019. His recent book, ‘How to find the Career you’ve always wanted’ was described by Baroness Gillian Shephard as, ‘One of the most practical and comprehensible career guides ever produced.’
Outside the Careers Service, Jonathan is a Fellow and Tutor for Welfare at New College, Oxford, Chair of the Oxford University spin-out, Skylark Works, and member of the Oxford Alumni Society Board.
