Here is an example resume from a male applicant. Try hovering over phrases to see which ones might affect the AI's judgement!
Wyatt Schmidt1
Education
Stanford University2
B.S. in Psychology
Degree Received: 20053
Experience
Software Engineer - Company 1
2006-2025
- Captured4 computer bugs across a variety of programs
- Executed test scripts to validate software
Activites
Little League Baseball Coach
Freelance Web Developer
Hobbies
Basketball5, Weightlifting, Hiking, Reading
1LLMs seem to prefer names white-associated names and male-associated names in the majority of resumes screened (Milne, 2024)
2A study on LLMs found that when generating personas for professions in technology, "elite" universities were reperesented 72.45% of the time, despite them only making up 8.56% of the LinkedIn data used to train them (Gupta, 2024)
3Lines on a resume that indicate age can be used to discriminate against resumes, as younger applicants have been shown to receive more interviews with the exact same resume (Lytton, 2024)
4Some algorithms are found to favor people whose resumes contain words often used in male engineers' resumes, such as "captured" or "executed." (Dastin, 2018)
5AI resume screeners trained on employees working at a company prefer hobbies similar to those employees, even though these may be associated with males more, especially at majority-male companies (Lytton, 2024)