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Hire Me: Computational inference of hirability in employment interviews based on nonverbal behavior

Nguyen, Laurent Son  
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Frauendorfer, Denise
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Schmid Mast, Marianne
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2014
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

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.

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DOI
10.1109/Tmm.2014.2307169
Web of Science ID

WOS:000337955800011

Author(s)
Nguyen, Laurent Son  
Frauendorfer, Denise
Schmid Mast, Marianne
Gatica-Perez, Daniel  
Date Issued

2014

Published in
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Volume

16

Issue

4

Start page

1018

End page

1031

Subjects

Employment interviews

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hirability

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nonverbal behavior

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social computing

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

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December 19, 2013
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