What If Job Interviews Were Automated?
The ritual of the interview is nerve-wracking for interviewees and laborious for interviewers. But what if the process of selecting the right candidate for a job were automated? Heads up—the future of job interviews might just involve computerized analysis of your performance.
New research shows that computers can analyze the facial expressions, language and tone of interviewees and predict how humans would rate their performance. In the study, a team from the University of Rochester used computers to observe and interpret both non-verbal and verbal behavior during face-to-face interviews. They did so with footage from 138 mock interviews with 69 would-be interns at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.