{"id":187339,"date":"2024-04-14T02:22:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T07:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/mcdonalds-making-job-applicants-take-weird-ai-personality-tests"},"modified":"2024-04-14T02:22:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T07:22:35","slug":"mcdonalds-making-job-applicants-take-weird-ai-personality-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/mcdonalds-making-job-applicants-take-weird-ai-personality-tests","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mcdonalds-making-job-applicants-take-weird-ai-personality-tests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI has come to the hiring process \u2014 and it\u2019s made those <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2015\/07\/ace-the-assessment\" class=\"\">mandatory personality tests<\/a> all the weirder.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/low-paying-jobs-require-bizarre-personality-evaluation-from-ai-company\/\" class=\"\"><em>404 Media<\/em> reports<\/a>, companies as disparate as McDonald\u2019s, Olive Garden, and FedEx are now requiring that job applicants take personality evaluations, which are then sorted by an AI system whose operations are cloudy at best.<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned companies are all contracted with <a href=\"http:\/\/Paradox.ai\">Paradox.ai<\/a>, a \u201cconversational recruiting software\u201d company whose strange personality assessments include images of blue-skinned humanoid aliens that applicants are, apparently, supposed to identify with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI has come to the hiring process \u2014 and it\u2019s made those mandatory personality tests all the weirder. As 404 Media reports, companies as disparate as McDonald\u2019s, Olive Garden, and FedEx are now requiring that job applicants take personality evaluations, which are then sorted by an AI system whose operations are cloudy at best. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}