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Algorithmic tools are becoming established instruments in the European market to assist with hiring processes, most commonly for pre-selection or ranking. At the same time, the implementation of European regulation in ensuring that algorithms will be trustworthy and non-discriminatory is still being developed.
Despite the huge take up of algorithmic tools in the hiring process, the transparency is lacking to make sound conclusions about the impact of such tools in minimizing, reducing, sustaining or increasing discrimination against underrepresented groups in the labour market. The concept of transparency in this regard serves a multiple interpretation. It is about the information users (can) receive about the tool, but it is also about the data the algorithm can access for training in its development and for processing when used in the market. The Fairness and Intersectional Non-Discrimination in Human Recommendation (FINDHR) research project, such as around AI auditing processes and interpretability, has found that fostering stronger feedback loops between job applicants and the AI tools used in their recruitment can greatly help companies in reducing discrimination.
FINDHR research among job seekers that face intersected risks to discrimination confirms that job seekers often receive no or very limited information about the processing of their data by AI tools in hiring processes. The AI Act can provide some of the answers through the regulatory framework in addressing challenges around transparency, but a lot will depend on the translation of the Act into enforceable standards and effective governance mechanisms.
Join us for this online roundtable, in which we discuss how increasing transparency between different stakeholders involved, in particular for job seekers, in the use of AI tools in hiring processes can in effect reduce intersectional discrimination. This event is aimed at everyone interested in discrimination in AI-assisted recruitment, including researchers, developers, product managers, quality assurance engineers, HR professionals, activists, workers´ representatives, and all other public.
Practical information:
- Date: 8 July 2025
- Time: 15.00-16.30
- Format: Online on Zoom!
- View here, with PPT from Eleni Dimopoulou: FINDHR PAR SESSIONS GREECE_ROUNTABLE_08.07.2025, The presentation of Dr. Antonio Mastropietro is not included, but the slides are available: Transparency for Algorithmic Hiring
- For any questions about this event, kindly contact Gea Meijers at info@wideplus.org.
Panellists:
Brando Benifei is an Italian MEP serving his third term in the European parliament. During the previous mandate he was co-Rapporteur for the Artificial Intelligence Act and thanks to this work in March 2024 he won the prize for the Best MEP of the Mandate assigned by The Parliament Magazine. Now he is Coordinator in the Committee on International Trade for the Socialists and Democrats Group and Chair of the European Parliament’s D-US delegation. He is member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and he works also as substitute member on the EU internal market and consumer protection and on legal affairs, always following closely digital issues.
Mr. Benifei can’t join due to a last minute political meeting and will be represented by his assistant. Mr. Enzo Grisoni.
Dr. Gemma Galdon-Clavell is the founder and CEO of Eticas.ai, a venture-backed organization that identifies, measures and corrects algorithmic vulnerabilities, bias and inefficiencies in predictive and LLM tools. For her work she has received multiple awards and acknowledgements. She is also an active advisor to international and regional institutions such as the United Nations (UN), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the European Commission, among others. Eticas.ai has provided the research on AI auditing in FINDHR.
Dr. Antonio Mastropietro is a postdoctoral Researcher of Computer Science at the University of Pisa. He is a member of the KDO Lab (http://www-kdd.isti.cnr.it/) and he has been researching for FINDHR, multi-stakeholder interpretability around AI tools, which is about making them understandable in interaction with users, including jobseekers.
Eleni Dimopoulou is a psychologist and researcher, currently advancing her academic journey by pursuing an MSc in the Management of Mass Migration and People on the Move at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She was also trained in Systemic Therapy and Counselling in the Systemic Association of North Greece. She has been working for PRAKSIS for 13 years, as psychologist, researcher and coordinator on different fields: social exclusion, migration and public health through various projects.
Gea Meijers is the General Coordinator of WIDE+ (www.wideplus.org). This is a European feminist network of feminist activists and organizations, women’s rights advocates, gender specialists, migrant women associations, as well as other NGOs that promote intersectional feminism, in particular focusing on feminist approaches in the economic domain. She has been co-coordinating the Participatory Action Research within FINDHR.
FINDHR
This roundtable is organized as part of the FINDHR project. This activity is Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
The FINDHR project facilitates the prevention, detection, and management of discrimination in algorithmic hiring and closely related areas involving human recommendation. On completion, the project’s publications, software, courseware and datasets will be made freely available to the public under free and open licenses.
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Note for illustration on cover photo: Creative Commons designed by Justice Adda for project FINDHR.