AI use in hiring means women with employment gaps get overlooked

AI was intended to make the recruiting process more efficient. Instead, it’s keeping millions of job seekers from being considered, according to a report from the Harvard Business School and Accenture. At a time when many companies are in desperate need of workers, millions of applicants aren’t even being considered for jobs. Why? The automated hiring programs that filter applications rejecting those applicants early in the process based on employment gaps on resumes, or a missing experience.…