The Pattern in the Shortlists

You coordinate hiring for a mid-size team, and three months ago the company brought in an AI tool that produces candidate shortlists from the applicant pool.

It's been fast and popular. But across ten roles now, the shortlists keep returning the same narrow profile — and a colleague in your team noticed it before you did. She's been quietly tracking it for three weeks.

This morning she showed you her notes. Now you're seeing it too.

You are
Hiring coordinator, part of the team that runs the tool day to day

What you can do
You can raise a concern and recommend a pause. You can't run the bias analysis yourself, access demographic data, or suspend the tool on your own authority.

AI bias is invisible one decision at a time — it only shows in the aggregate, so someone has to look on purpose.

About eight to ten minutes. No login. Nothing scored.