Hire me: Computational Inference of Hirability in Employment Interviews Based on Nonverbal Behavior

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serval:BIB_AF51C95E359A
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Hire me: Computational Inference of Hirability in Employment Interviews Based on Nonverbal Behavior
Journal
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Author(s)
Nguyen L. S., Frauendorfer D., Schmid Mast M., Gatica-Perez D
ISSN
1520-9210
Publication state
Published
Issued date
06/2014
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
16
Number
4
Pages
1018 - 1031
Language
english
Abstract
Understanding the basis on which recruiters form hirability impressions for a job applicant is a key issue in organizational psychology and can be addressed as a social computing problem. We approach the problem from a face-to-face, nonverbal perspective where behavioral feature extraction and inference are automated. This paper presents a computational framework for the automatic prediction of hirability. To this end, we collected an audio-visual dataset of real job interviews where candidates were applying for a marketing job. We automatically extracted audio and visual behavioral cues related to both the applicant and the interviewer. We then evaluated several regression methods for the prediction of hirability scores and showed the feasibility of conducting such a task, with ridge regression explaining 36.2% of the variance. Feature groups were analyzed, and two main groups of behavioral cues were predictive of hirability: applicant audio features and interviewer visual cues, showing the predictive validity of cues related not only to the applicant, but also to the interviewer. As a last step, we analyzed the predictive validity of psychometric questionnaires often used in the personnel selection process, and found that these questionnaires were unable to predict hirability, suggesting that hirability impressions were formed based on the interaction during the interview rather than on questionnaire data.
Keywords
Employment interviews, hirability, Nonverbal behavior, Social computing
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