Patent Grant
10346805
Finding and hiring employees is a task that impacts most modern businesses. It is important for an employer to find employees that “fit” open positions. Criteria for fitting an open position may include skills necessary to perform job functions. Employers may also want to evaluate potential employees for mental and emotional stability, ability to work well with others, ability to assume leadership roles, ambition, attention to detail, problem solving, etc.
However, the processes associated with finding employees can be expensive and time consuming for an employer. Such processes can include evaluating resumes and cover letters, telephone interviews with candidates, in-person interviews with candidates, drug testing, skill testing, sending rejection letters, offer negotiation, training new employees, etc. A single employee candidate can be very costly in terms of man-hours needed to evaluate and interact with the candidate before the candidate is hired.
Computers and computing systems can be used to automate some of these activities. For example, many businesses now have on-line recruiting tools that facilitate job postings, resume submissions, preliminary evaluations, etc. Additionally, some computing systems include functionality for allowing candidates to participate in “virtual” on-line interviews.
The job of interviewers and candidate reviewers is to determine if candidates are skilled and have the qualifications required for a particular job. In the process of doing this, they compare and contrast the qualifications of candidates—often reviewing and comparing candidate responses to particular questions or tasks. While computing tools have automated interview response gathering, there is still a lot of effort spent in evaluating the numerous responses that may be submitted in large quantities of applications for a single opening.
The subject matter claimed herein is not limited to embodiments that solve any disadvantages or that operate only in environments such as those described above. Rather, this background is only provided to illustrate one exemplary technology area where some embodiments described herein may be practiced.
The present disclosure is illustrated by way of example, and not by way of limitation, in the figures of the accompanying drawings in which like references indicate similar elements. It should be noted that different references to “an” or “one” embodiment in this disclosure are not necessarily to the same embodiment, and such references mean at least one.
Some aspects of these figures may be better understood by reference to the following Detailed Description.
Methods and systems for model-assisted evaluation and intelligent interview feedback to improve the reviewing of digital interviews and other digitally-capture evaluation processes are described. In the following description, numerous details are set forth. In one embodiment, a model-assisted evaluation and intelligent interview feedback tool (also referred to herein as an evaluation-assessment tool) selects a data set of digital response data for training. The data set includes evaluation data for evaluating candidates (also referred to herein as persons under evaluation). This evaluation data includes ratings of individual candidate responses to a series of prompts as well as an evaluation result, such as a hiring decision or recommendation, for each candidate. The evaluation-assessment tool analyzes the evaluation data to identify and model the relative importance or impact of each prompt to the evaluation result and applies the model to alter the sequence in which responses of candidates that have not yet been evaluated are reviewed. The predictive model may provide a one-time optimization of the reviewing sequence, and/or the predictive model may be used to update the reviewing sequence each time an evaluator rates a candidate's response. The model is can be used to predict an evaluation result of a given candidate while the candidate is being evaluated by an evaluator. This evaluation result prediction may be updated with each new rating an evaluator provides for a person under evaluation.
In some instances in this description, well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form, rather than in detail, in order to avoid obscuring the embodiments of the present invention. It will be apparent, however, to one of ordinary skill in the art having the benefit of this disclosure, that embodiments of the present invention may be practiced without these specific details.
With the ability to recruit for positions nationally and even internationally using the Internet, the number of qualified candidates applying for a given job can be expensive and time consuming to evaluate. For more technical positions, subject-matter experts are used for evaluation and screening of candidates rather than focusing on regular job duties. With the adoption of digital video interviewing, the time needed to evaluate candidates is reduced, however, the problem of having too many candidates to filter through still remains.
Digital interviews or other evaluations, such as a pitch for investment funding or a grant, an admissions interview, job performance evaluations, or other presentation meriting assessment and comparison may include responding to a series of prompts or questions. The responses to those prompts by a person or group being evaluated, can be captured as digital data and later reviewed and rated by an evaluator. Because there are many candidates, a large data set is collected that includes the recorded responses for each candidate. When evaluators later view the recorded responses, the recorded responses may be viewed in the same sequence in which they were recorded. However, many of the earlier prompts in the series may be less useful in evaluating the candidate. For example, some of the earlier questions may include questions intended for the purpose of permitting the candidate to relax or become familiarized with the recording process. Because these prompts may elicit responses that are less well correlated with the evaluator's decision (represented in data as an evaluation result), reviewing these responses may decrease the efficiency and, potentially, the objectivity of the evaluation result. Additionally, at the outset of a hiring campaign or other evaluation campaign, it may not be clear which prompts will be the most useful in assessing the candidates. By identifying which questions are the most strongly correlated with the evaluation result or most strongly predict the evaluation result, the time spent evaluating candidates may be directed to reviewing the recorded responses of many candidates to those prompts. Relatedly, by identifying the paths through an evaluation process, an evaluation result prediction may be provided to an evaluator and updated with each rating. This may assist the evaluator in confirming the evaluator's decision, allowing the evaluator to terminate the evaluation with confidence. As described herein a predictive model may be developed and used to re-order the recorded responses in a manner that presents the responses to a strongly correlated question before the responses to less strongly correlated questions. The responses being correlated to an evaluation result.
Thus, embodiments described herein can be used to address at least two identified problems of candidate selection, namely large candidate pools and increased screening accuracy. The embodiments described herein provide solutions to these problems by identifying an optimal reviewing sequence so that the candidate pool may be efficiently and correctly narrowed after reviewing a smaller number of recorded responses. The predictive model used to provide the optimal reviewing sequence may further provide a prediction of an evaluation result for a person being evaluated (referred to herein as an evaluation result prediction) to provide evaluators with added confidence in their assessments. The evaluation result prediction can be updated as the evaluator rates responses. In order to determine the optimal reviewing sequence and the prediction of an evaluation result, a historical data set is gathered over time. The historical data set includes ratings and evaluation results of multiple candidates. The embodiments described herein describe building a predictive model using the historical data set, training the predictive model, and using the predictive model to sort responses for efficient review and to provide an evaluation result prediction.
The evaluation-assessment tool 110 can be implemented as a part of a digital evaluation platform 101, such as the digital interviewing platform developed by HireVue, Inc., or may be implemented in another digital evaluation platform such as an investment evaluation platform or an admission evaluation platform. While many of the examples provided herein are directed to an employment/hiring context, the principles and features disclosed herein may be equally applied to other contexts and so such are within the scope of this disclosure as well. For example, the principles and features provided herein may be applied to a job performance evaluation, an evaluation of a sales pitch, an evaluation of an investment pitch, etc.
The evaluation-assessment tool 110 can be implemented as a standalone predictive model that interfaces with the digital evaluation platform 101 or other systems. It should also be noted that in this embodiment, the server computing system 104 implements the evaluation-assessment tool 110, but one or more of the clients may also include client modules of the evaluation-assessment tool 110 that can work in connection with, or independently from the functionality of the evaluation-assessment tool 110 as depicted on the server computing system 104.
The client computing systems 102 (also referred to herein as “client 102”) may each be a client workstation, a server, a computer, a portable electronic device, an entertainment system configured to communicate over a network, such as a set-top box, a digital receiver, a digital television, a mobile phone, a smart phone, a tablet, or other electronic devices. For example, portable electronic devices may include, but are not limited to, cellular phones, portable gaming systems, wearable computing devices or the like. The client 102 may have access to the Internet via a firewall, a router or other packet switching devices. The clients 102 may connect to the server 104 through one or more intervening devices, such as routers, gateways, or other devices. The clients 102 are variously configured with different functionality and may include a browser 140 and one or more applications 142. The clients 102 may include a microphone and a video camera to recorded responses as digital data. For example, the clients 102 may record and store video responses and/or stream or upload the recorded responses to the server 104 for capture and storage. In one embodiment, the clients 102 access the digital evaluation platform 101 via the browser 140 to record responses. The recorded responses may include audio, video, digital data, such as code or text, or combinations thereof. In such embodiments, the digital evaluation platform 101 is a web-based application or a cloud computing system that presents user interfaces to the client 102 via the browser 140.
Similarly, one of the applications 142 can be used to access the digital evaluation platform 101. For example, a mobile application (referred to as “app”) can be used to access one or more user interfaces of the digital evaluation platform 101. The digital evaluation platform 101 can be one or more software products that facilitate the digital evaluation process. For example, in some cases, the client 102 is used by a candidate (or interviewee) to conduct a digital interview. The digital evaluation platform 101 can capture digital response data 132 from the candidate and store the data in a data store 130. The digital response data 132 may include data uploaded by the candidate, audio captured during the interview, video captured during the interview, data submitted by the candidate before or after the interview, or the like. As illustrated herein, the digital response data 132 includes at least recorded response in the form of video captured during the interview.
The clients 102 can also be used by a reviewer or evaluator to review, screen, and select candidates and their associated response data. The reviewer can access the digital evaluation platform 101 via the browser 140 or the application 142 as described above. The user interfaces presented to the reviewer by the digital evaluation platform 101 are different than the user interfaces presented to the candidates. The user interfaces presented to the reviewer permit the reviewer to access the digital response data 132 for reviewing and selecting the candidates. The evaluation-assessment tool 110 can be selectively activated by the reviewer (or automatically activated when so configured) to sort recorded responses in an optimal reviewing order or sequence, provide evaluation result predictions, to sort candidates for ordering a list of candidates, screening a list of candidates, or for other reviewing purposes.
The data store 130 can represent one or more data repositories on one or more memory devices. The data store 130 may be a database or any other organized collection of data. The data store 130 may store the digital response data 132, evaluation ratings data 134, evaluation result data 136, and a general predictive model 138 from which both the result prediction model 112 and the review sequence generator 114 may be derived.
In the depicted embodiment, the server computing system 104 may execute the digital evaluation platform 101, including the evaluation-assessment tool 110 for sorting recorded responses in an optimal reviewing sequence and predicting evaluation results. The server 104 can include web server functionality that facilitates communication between the clients 102 and the digital evaluation platform 101 to conduct digital interviews or review digital interviews, including recorded responses, as described herein. Alternatively, the web server functionality may be implemented on a machine other than the machine running the evaluation-assessment tool 110. It should also be noted that the functionality of the digital evaluation platform 101 for recording the digital response data 132 can be implemented on one or more servers 104 and the functionality of the digital evaluation platform 101 can be implemented by one or more different servers 104. In other embodiments, the network architecture 100 may include other devices, such as directory servers, website servers, statistic servers, devices of a network infrastructure operator (e.g., an ISP), or the like. Alternatively, other configurations are possible as would be appreciated by one of ordinary skill in the art having the benefit of this disclosure.
y=F(r) (1)
In Equation (1), F may represent a function (e.g., a linear function, a non-linear function, a custom algorithm, etc.), y is an evaluation result for a candidate, and r is a vector of ratings with a length ranging from 1 to n, where n is the total number of prompts in the evaluation. The function F may handle a dynamic vector length, so that an evaluation result prediction may be calculated as additional ratings are entered by an evaluator. Given a sufficient quantity of y and r data, the function F may be modelled to enable the prediction of a y from a given r. Other components may be included in some embodiments of the evaluation-assessment tool 210 in providing this general predictive model.
Before the evaluation-assessment tool 210 is used in connection with current data 234 (e.g., recorded responses that have not yet been rated by an evaluator), the evaluation-assessment tool 210 can develop and train the result prediction model 112 and the review sequence generator 114, provided by the function F. In some embodiments, the review sequence generator 114 uses the prediction model 112 to generate an optimized review sequence. To build the result prediction model 112 and the sequence generator 114, the evaluation-assessment tool 210 obtains a training data set 232 of historical ratings data and historical evaluation result data. Thus, the training data set 232 may be understood as an evaluated data set, in that in contains data, ratings and result data, from previously performed evaluations of candidates. This training data set may be provided by the collection engine 216 as the ratings and results are provided to the digital evaluation platform 101 from one of the clients 102. Ratings and evaluation result data may be collected by the collection engine 216 first as current data. For example, during the evaluation of a candidate, the evaluator may view a first recorded response and provide a rating for the response, before viewing a second recorded response, providing another rating, etc. At the end of the evaluation, the evaluator enters an evaluation result (e.g., yes, no, maybe, advance to next round, etc.). Once the evaluation result is provided by the evaluator, the ratings and the evaluation result for that candidate may be moved from the current data to the training data set 232, where the added data may be used in computer-learning procedures to improve the sequence generator 114 and the result prediction model 112.
For example, at the beginning of an evaluation, no ratings are entered. After the first recorded response is viewed and a rating (e.g., a numerical value from 1 to 5) is entered, a ratings vector r may be created with the first rating. The vector r=[4] is the ratings vector after one rating is entered, with 4 as the rating. As more recorded responses are viewed and rated by the evaluator, the vector r increases. For example, after the next rating r becomes [4 3], after another rating r becomes [4 3 2], and so on until all the responses have been evaluated resulting in a complete ratings vector r=[4 3 2 5 2 3 1 4]. This example has eight recorded responses to eight prompts, i.e. n=8 in this instance. During an evaluation process, the function F produces results as seen in the following Equations (2), (3), and (4):
y1=F([4]) (2)
y2=F([43]) (3)
y8=F([43252314]) (4)
In which, where y1 represents the evaluation result prediction after receiving a 4 on the first prompt, y2 represents the candidate prediction after receiving a 4 on the first prompt and a 3 on the second prompt, and y8 equals the candidate prediction based on the entire scoring sequence by the evaluator. The evaluation result prediction may be expressed as a percentage or a probability of a particular evaluation result occurring, such as a “yes” or another favorable decision. This percentage or probability may thus be mapped to a verbal evaluation result or recommendation.
During training of the function F, after all the ratings have been received and an evaluation result y has also been received from the evaluator, the vector r and the value y may be moved from current data 234 to training data set 232. The accumulation of vectors r provides for the formation of a ratings matrix R as seen in Equation (5) below.
As shown above in ratings matrix R, a row in the matrix is associated with a single candidate and is composed of the ratings for that candidate. The ratings matrix R may have dimensions p×n, where p is the number of candidates in a candidate pool and n is the total number of prompts. In some instances, the matrix R may include a sparse data set, meaning that ratings may not have been provided by the evaluator for every recorded response. In other instances, the collection engine 216 may require that ratings for every recorded response be provided; partially full ratings vectors may be discarded from the training data set 232. In some embodiments, the collection engine 216 may provide an estimated value for use in any blanks in the ratings matrix. This estimated value may be determined per candidate such that the value may be an average of the actual ratings received for a given candidate, or the estimated value for all candidates may be the average of all the entered ratings in the ratings matrix. In other embodiments, other methods may be used to provide the missing ratings in the ratings matrix.
Entered evaluation results y for a plurality of candidates provide for the formation of an evaluation results vector Y as shown in Equation (6) below.
As shown above, the evaluation results vector Y may be first provided in verbal form and then converted by the collection engine 216 to a numeral format. As used herein a “yes” maps to 3, a “maybe” maps to 2, and a “no” maps to 1. Other values may be used in some embodiments. For example, an evaluation result of “maybe” may map to 0.5, or an evaluation result of “yes” may map to 4. Different weightings may be provided in different embodiments within the scope of this disclosure. Additionally, each time an evaluation is completed, the additional ratings vector and evaluation result may be added to the ratings matrix R and the evaluation results vector Y in the training set data 232.
Using this data collected by the collection engine 216, the system identification module 202 builds the general predictive function F to provide the result prediction model 112 and the review sequence generator 114 using the ratings matrix R and the evaluation results vector Y. After a modeling function F is created, the function F may generate a ratings vector and output an evaluation result prediction.
In some embodiments, the function F may be a sequence dependent function, while in other embodiments it may be a sequence independent function. If the function F is sequence independent, the ordering of the questions in the ratings matrix R may not alter the weight a question receives in assessing its effectiveness at sorting candidates. Such sequence independent functions and models may include regression functions, random forest functions, support vector machines (SVM), etc. By using the function F, the prompts and the corresponding recorded responses may be sorted according to how predictive they are of the evaluation result. Once this ordering is identified, the review sequence generator 114 may provide the optimized review sequence to an evaluator through a user interface provided by the GUI engine 212. Using the review sequence, an evaluator may review the recorded responses of a candidate in order of how correlated those recorded responses are to the evaluation's decision.
When the function F is a sequence dependent function, the function F effectively receives the ratings matrix R as an input and further receives R in a specific order. Because the order in which the columns of R are received affects the weighting of the prompts, the training of the general predictive model F (providing the result prediction model 112 and the review sequence generator 114) may include operations to assess the results for each possible sequence of columns. Because the result prediction model 112 and the review sequence generator 114 may be provided by the general predictive model or function F, references herein to training the function F may also be understood as training the result prediction model 112 and the review sequence generator 114. In some embodiments, optimization may be performed in order to train the function F without evaluating results of every possible sequence, but with only a subset of the possible sequences. In this optimization problem, the objective is to reduce the number of questions needed to achieve a decision in the function F. In other words, the optimization may include determining how effectively each prompt splits a pool of candidates for which there are ratings data and evaluation result data. For example, the prediction model 112 may begin with one column of the ratings matrix R and then grow the data set operated on by one column in an iterative manner. The resulting vectors may be combined to produce an outcome or result matrix. The effectiveness of a question may be assessed by counting the number of candidates in each column that have been classified. In some embodiments, the classification may be as “yes” or “maybe” if the confidence is above 99% and “no” if the confidence is less than 1%. Other values may be used in other embodiments.
During an evaluation phase 316, an evaluator 318 may evaluate the recorded responses of an additional candidate that is under evaluation using the digital-evaluation platform 101 of
The sequence generator 114 uses the ratings from the ratings database 308 and the evaluation results from the results database 312 to determine an optimal review sequence 322 in which to review the recorded responses of the additional candidate. This review sequence 322 orders the recorded responses from the most predictive to the least predictive in order to minimize the time and effort required to evaluate the additional candidate. Thus, the recorded response 324A may have occurred after the recorded response 324B at the time the candidate recorded his responses, e.g. the prompt that elicited the recorded response 324B preceded the prompt that elicited the recorded response 324A in the interview. However, the result prediction model 112 and the sequence generator 114 determine that recorded response 324A is more predictive than the recorded response 324B. Accordingly, the recorded response 324A may be presented sooner to the evaluator 318 in the evaluation process. Thus, the result prediction model 112 and the sequence generator 114 may identify which prompts elicit the responses that are most predictive of whether or not a candidate receives a favorable or unfavorable evaluation result.
While the evaluator 318 is evaluating the additional candidate, the evaluator 318 may provide a rating for the first recorded response in the reviewing sequence 322 before moving on to the second recorded response, etc. When the evaluator enters the rating r4, the rating is provided to the result prediction model 112. The result prediction model 112 may use the rating r4 to update the result prediction 320 to reflect the performance of the additional candidate on the first prompt. If the rating r4 indicates the additional candidate performed well, the result prediction 320 may increase. Conversely, if the rating r4 indicates the additional candidate performed poorly, the result prediction 320 may decrease. Because the recorded responses of the additional candidate have been reordered into the review sequence 322, the impact of a favorable or unfavorable response to the first prompt may have a greater impact on the result prediction 320 that comparable ratings received for the response to the second prompt. Thus, the result prediction model 112 may provide and update the evaluation result prediction 320 with each new rating received from the evaluator 318. In some embodiments, the review sequence 322 is optimized with or without the display and updating of the result prediction 320.
When the evaluator 318 enters an evaluation result, the evaluation phase 316 may terminate and an update phase 326 may begin. During the update phase 326, the ratings for the additional candidate (r4, r5, r6, etc.) and the evaluation result (“yes”, “no”, “maybe”, etc.) are provided to the ratings database 308 and the results database 312, respectively. This additional data may then be used in another training phase 314 to update the result prediction model 112 and the review sequence generator 114. After which, yet another candidate may be evaluated in another evaluation phase 316.
For simplicity of explanation, the method 400 and other methods of this disclosure may be depicted and described as a series of acts or operations. However, operations in accordance with this disclosure can occur in various orders and/or concurrently, and with other acts not presented and described herein. Furthermore, not all illustrated acts may be required to implement the methods in accordance with the disclosed subject matter. In addition, those skilled in the art will understand and appreciate that the methods could alternatively be represented as a series of interrelated states via a state diagram or events. Additionally, it should be appreciated that the methods disclosed in this specification are capable of being stored on a non-transitory, tangible, computer-readable medium to facilitate transporting and transferring such methods to computing devices.
Thus,
If the historical evaluation data is determined to be inadequate, the method 400 may continue to block 404 in which the processing logic receives ratings from the evaluator. Because an optimized review sequence may not be generated reliably the review sequence generator 114, the evaluator may rate recorded responses in the order in which the responses were recorded or in a manually configured order. For example, the evaluator or a person overseeing the evaluation process may be able to manually select an order for review other than the order of recording. Additionally, an evaluation result prediction may not be provided to the evaluator. The evaluator may continue to review recorded responses and enter ratings until there are no more recorded responses for the person then under review or until the evaluator enters an evaluation result.
At block 406, an evaluation result is received from the evaluator. The evaluation result may be quantized value derived from a “yes”, a “no”, a “maybe”, an “advance to the next round”, or another such evaluation result. The evaluation result may be a recommendation rather than a decision. In some embodiments, recommendations from multiple evaluators may be used in conjunction to make ultimate evaluation decisions, such as whether to hire a particular candidate or whether to invest in a pitched opportunity. At block 408, the processing logic may collect the ratings and the evaluation result received from the evaluator and update the historical data set with the ratings and result. This may increase the quantity and/or quality of the historical data set, which may make it sufficient for use by the predictive model. Accordingly, at block 410, the predictive model (the function F) is updated by the processing logic. This may include the operations discussed above in connection with
When the historical data set is determined to be sufficient for use in prediction and recommendation, the method 400 continues to block 412, at which the processing logic obtains an optimal reviewing sequence from the predictive model. The optimal reviewing sequence is a sequence in which responses are ordered and presented to an evaluator according to their correlation with a favorable evaluation result. This predictive model may include the sequence generator 114 as shown in
At block 414, the processing logic calculates the evaluation prediction result. For example, the result prediction model 112 may use the ratings from the ratings database 308 and the evaluation results from the results database 312 to predict whether the person under evaluation will receive a favorable evaluation result. When no ratings have been received from the evaluator for any of the recorded responses of the person under evaluation, the evaluation result prediction may be based on the number of candidates receiving a favorable result divided by the total number of candidates reviewed. After at least one rating has been received, the rating may also be factored into the prediction evaluation result by the result prediction model 112.
At block 416, the processing logic receives one or more ratings of one or more recorded responses of the person under evaluation. In some embodiments, as is discussed later in more detail, upon receiving a rating at block 416, the method may return to block 412.
At block 418, the processing logic receives an evaluation result from the evaluator. This operation may be similar to that described in connection with block 406 above. At block 420, the historical data set is updated by the processing logic with the ratings and the evaluation result received from the evaluator. After the historical data set is updated to include the ratings and evaluation result of the most recently evaluated candidate, the predictive model is updated by the processing logic at block 422. This update may include updating the result prediction model 112 and the review sequence generator 114.
The evaluation view 502 further includes a sequence optimization element 518, by which an evaluator may select one of multiple sequence optimization settings. As shown in
To compensate for the limited observations of certain ratings sequences, a likelihood coefficient matrix may be built to facilitate extrapolation. The coefficient matrix C may be formed by looping through each prompt q and rating v as shown in Equation (7) shown below,
where R(:,q)==v is selecting all the indexes or rows in the rating matrix R, where the q column is equal to the rating v. Once a logical index vector is available, the logical index vector is piped into the evaluation result vector y, and set equal to 2 or 3 (assuming 2 is assigned to “maybe” and 3 is assigned to “yes”). The final outcome is the ratio of the number of times a rating of “yes” or “maybe” occurred relative to the total number of occurrences or rows in rating matrix R. As shown in
An example of the coefficient matrix C is provided in Equation (8) as seen below:
In some instances, the evaluators or an evaluator may not give every rating for recorded responses to all the prompts in the evaluation. As shown above, in Equation (8) the rating of 5 has not been given for recorded responses to certain prompts. However, ratings from 1-4 have been given on all other questions. To address the missing data problem the coefficient matrix C may use two-dimensional interpolation and extrapolation to allow missing data items, like scores of 5, to be populated with values greater or equal to those present where ratings are equal to 4. In some embodiments, the prompt order can be sorted, prior to interpolation, to address the randomness of the prompts. The reordering or sorting may be driven by the slope across the rating system, which could cluster questions that are more decisive.
The adjusted coefficient matrix Cadjusted may be represented by Equation (9) as show below:
Using the adjusted coefficient matrix, a vector can be constructed based on each historical evaluation path. For example, a single row from the review matrix R has R(1,:)=[3, 5, 4, 1, 3, 3, 4, 2, 2, 3, 4, NA], where NA represents a missing value. Using the corresponding ratings and prompt, a vector may be constructed out of values from the adjusted coefficient matrix Cadjusted. Using this example, the probability vector Probj for candidate j may be as follows,
where the missing value is replaced with an estimate value (e.g. a replacement value) based on the rest of the candidate responses. In this example, the value of 1.0 for a 4 star rating is used because the candidate scored considerably higher on the rest of their questions. The replacement value may be selected on the assumption that candidates with lower than normal probabilities may be likely to have a lower occurrence than candidates with a higher than normal probability. The probability value for the first prompt may be correct, but is then averaged cumulatively as more prompts are responded to.
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After the stochastic adjustment is completed, the previously classified “yes” and “no” clustering seen in
Embodiments of the method 1300 may begin at block 1302 in which processing logic selects a first data set that includes ratings of recorded responses of each of a set of evaluated persons. The recorded responses may be responsive to multiple prompts presented to each of the evaluated persons in a recording sequence during an evaluation. The data also include an evaluation result of each of the evaluated persons in the evaluation at the point. The first data set may be collected from an evaluator or evaluators via a user interface, such as the exemplary user interface 500 as seen in
At block 1306, the processing logic analyzes the first data set to calculate a reviewing sequence in which to present the additional recorded responses of the second data set. The processing logic may perform the analysis using an evaluation-assessment tool, such as the evaluation-assessment tool 110 of
At block 1308, the processing logic may present the additional recorded response in a second order corresponding to the reviewing sequence to an evaluator via the user interface. In this way, an evaluator may view recorded responses of candidates in an optimized order, such that the evaluator may provide evaluation results (e.g., a recommendation or a decision) in an efficient manner. The evaluator may be able to evaluate the most predictive questions first and skip viewing one or more recorded responses that may be less predictive of an evaluation result.
In a further embodiment, the processing logic forms a ratings matrix that includes the ratings of the recorded responses of the set of evaluated persons. The ratings for each evaluated person of the set of evaluated persons may be provided in a separate row of the matrix and in the first order. The processing logic may also form an evaluation result vector that includes the evaluation result of each of the evaluated persons in the evaluation and calculate the reviewing sequence based on the ratings matrix and the evaluation result vector. In another embodiment, the first data set and the second data set include video recordings of responses to prompts in a digital interview.
In an additional embodiment, the processing logic presents, in the user interface, an evaluation decision prediction for the person under evaluation. The evaluation decision prediction may be based at least on a rating of one of the additional recorded responses of the person under evaluation or the collected data. The processing logic may also receive, from the evaluator, a rating of one of the additional recorded responses of the person under evaluation to one of the plurality of prompts and update the evaluation decision prediction upon receipt of the rating and based on the rating.
In some embodiments, the processing logic receives, from the evaluator, a rating of one of the additional recorded response of the person under evaluation, alters an order of remaining prompts in the reviewing sequence to provide an updated reviewing sequence, and presents, to the evaluator via the user interface, a first remaining response of the additional recorded responses according to the updated reviewing sequence. In some embodiments, the processing logic analyzes the first data set to calculate the reviewing sequence thereby creating a prediction model based on the first data set. The prediction model may predict an evaluation result from a vector of ratings of at least some of the additional recorded responses of the person under evaluation. The prediction model may utilize at least one of regression analysis, neural networks, support vector machines, decision trees, and a Markov model variant.
Additionally, the processing logic may determine whether an amount of data in the first data set exceeds a threshold before analyzing the first data set to calculate the reviewing sequence. Furthermore, the processing logic may receive ratings from the evaluator for at least one of the additional recorded responses, receive an evaluation result of the person under evaluation, augment the first data set with the ratings from the evaluator and the evaluation result of the person under evaluation, and analyze the augmented first data set to calculate an updated reviewing sequence in which to view each of the recorded responses of a next person under evaluation. This analysis may be performed by the evaluation-assessment tool executing on a processing device.
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At block 1406, the processing logic determines whether the ratings matrix and evaluation result vector are above a threshold in quality and/or quantity in order to calculate an optimized reviewing sequence in which to present the recorded responses of a person under evaluation to an evaluator. At block 1408, when the quality and/or quality of the ratings matrix and evaluation result vector are at or above the threshold, the processing logic may calculate the optimized reviewing sequence. This may be done by the evaluation-assessment tool 110 of
The evaluation-assessment tool 110, and its components as described herein, can be trained to identify an optimal order in which to view and rate the recorded responses of candidates. The evaluation-assessment tool 110 may further provide an indication to evaluators of how a particular candidate, under evaluation, is likely to be evaluated. This may allow evaluators to skip reviewing the least predictive recorded responses with confidence, thereby enabling the evaluator to evaluator candidates more efficiently without significantly diminishing the quality of the evaluation. Thus, better candidates may be identified in less time.
The exemplary computing system 1500 includes a processing device 1502, a main memory 1504 (e.g., read-only memory (ROM), flash memory, dynamic random access memory (DRAM) such as synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), etc.), a static memory 1506 (e.g., flash memory, static random access memory (SRAM), etc.), and a data storage device 1516, each of which communicate with each other via a bus 1530.
Processing device 1502 represents one or more general-purpose processing devices such as a microprocessor, central processing unit, or the like. More particularly, the processing device 1502 may be a complex instruction set computing (CISC) microprocessor, reduced instruction set computing (RISC) microprocessor, very long instruction word (VLIW) microprocessor, or a processor implementing other instruction sets or processors implementing a combination of instruction sets. The processing device 1502 may also be one or more special-purpose processing devices such as an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a field programmable gate array (FPGA), a digital signal processor (DSP), network processor, or the like. The processing device 1502 is configured to execute the processing logic (e.g., evaluation-assessment tool 1526) for performing the operations and steps discussed herein.
The computing system 1500 may further include a network interface device 1522. The computing system 1500 also may include a video display unit 1510 (e.g., a liquid crystal display (LCD) or a cathode ray tube (CRT)), an alphanumeric input device 1512 (e.g., a keyboard), a cursor control device 1514 (e.g., a mouse), and a signal generation device 1520 (e.g., a speaker).
The data storage device 1516 may include a computer-readable storage medium 1524 on which is stored one or more sets of instructions (e.g., evaluation-assessment tool 1526) embodying any one or more of the methodologies or functions described herein. The evaluation-assessment tool 1526 may also reside, completely or at least partially, within the main memory 1504 and/or within the processing device 1502 during execution thereof by the computing system 1500, the main memory 1504 and the processing device 1502 also constituting computer-readable storage media. The evaluation-assessment tool 1526 may further be transmitted or received over a network via the network interface device 1522.
While the computer-readable storage medium 1524 is shown in an exemplary embodiment to be a single medium, the term “computer-readable storage medium” should be taken to include a single medium or multiple media (e.g., a centralized or distributed database, and/or associated caches and servers) that store the one or more sets of instructions. The term “computer-readable storage medium” shall also be taken to include any medium that is capable of storing a set of instructions for execution by the machine and that causes the machine to perform any one or more of the methodologies of the present embodiments. The term “computer-readable storage medium” shall accordingly be taken to include, but not be limited to, solid-state memories, optical media, magnetic media or other types of mediums for storing the instructions. The term “computer-readable transmission medium” shall be taken to include any medium that is capable of transmitting a set of instructions for execution by the machine to cause the machine to perform any one or more of the methodologies of the present embodiments.
The evaluation-assessment tool, components, and other features described herein can be implemented as discrete hardware components or integrated in the functionality of hardware components such as ASICS, FPGAs, DSPs, or similar devices. The evaluation-assessment module 1532 may implement operations of evaluation-assessment as described herein. In addition, the evaluation-assessment module 1532 can be implemented as firmware or functional circuitry within hardware devices. Further, the evaluation-assessment module 1532 can be implemented in any combination hardware devices and software components.
Some portions of the detailed description that follow are presented in terms of algorithms and symbolic representations of operations on data bits within a computer memory. These algorithmic descriptions and representations are the means used by those skilled in the data processing arts to most effectively convey the substance of their work to others skilled in the art. An algorithm is here, and generally, conceived to be a self-consistent sequence of steps leading to a desired result. The steps are those requiring physical manipulations of physical quantities. Usually, though not necessarily, these quantities take the form of electrical or magnetic signals capable of being stored, transferred, combined, compared, and otherwise manipulated. It has proven convenient at times, principally for reasons of common usage, to refer to these signals as bits, values, elements, symbols, characters, terms, numbers or the like.
It should be borne in mind, however, that all of these and similar terms are to be associated with the appropriate physical quantities and are merely convenient labels applied to these quantities. Unless specifically stated otherwise as apparent from the following discussion, it is appreciated that throughout the description, discussions utilizing terms such as “receiving,” “generating,” “analyzing,” “capturing,” “executing,” “defining,” “specifying,” “selecting,” “recreating,” “processing,” “providing,” “computing,” “calculating,” “determining,” “displaying,” or the like, refer to the actions and processes of a computing system, or similar electronic computing systems, that manipulates and transforms data represented as physical (e.g., electronic) quantities within the computing system's registers and memories into other data similarly represented as physical quantities within the computing system memories or registers or other such information storage, transmission or display devices.
Embodiments of the present invention also relate to an apparatus for performing the operations herein. This apparatus may be specially constructed for the required purposes, or it may comprise a general-purpose computing system specifically programmed by a computer program stored in the computing system. Such a computer program may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, such as, but not limited to, any type of disk including optical disks, CD-ROMs, and magnetic-optical disks, read-only memories (ROMs), random access memories (RAMs), EPROMs, EEPROMs, magnetic or optical cards, or any type of media suitable for storing electronic instructions.
The foregoing description, for purpose of explanation, has been described with reference to specific embodiments. However, the illustrative discussions above are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise forms disclosed. Many modifications and variations are possible in view of the above teachings. The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and its practical applications, to thereby enable others skilled in the art to utilize the invention and various embodiments with various modifications as may be suited to the particular use contemplated.
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/543,736, filed Nov. 17, 2014, and entitled “MODEL-ASSISTED EVALUATION AND INTELLIGENT INTERVIEW FEEDBACK,” which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/928,308, filed Jan. 16, 2014, and entitled “MODEL-ASSISTED EVALUATION AND INTELLIGENT INTERVIEW FEEDBACK,” the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
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