HR Avatar for ADP Vantage HCM®

How we use AI

• HR Avatar embeds Artificial intelligence (AI) into its products in various ways. These applications are either “supportive” or “direct.”
  
  
• In supportive applications, such as speech-to-text, automatic translation, voice synthesis, and facial recognition, AI is used as a tool that assists our system in preparing and presenting information or media. The AI makes the result or product more presentable or convenient, but does not materially change the product itself, or its value.
  
  
• Direct applications of AI use machine learning software to compute numeric information changes or produce assessment results. These applications do affect the product and its value to employers. Since these assessment results can be used in employment decisions, such as hiring selection, or promotion, it’s important to understand how they work.
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  HR Avatar uses AI in “direct” applications in the following ways:
  A. Essay scoring
  B. Evaluating written or transcribed text to estimate personality factors
  C. Evaluating recorded speech for attributes that indicate how it is perceived by others
  
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  In each of these cases, machine learning algorithms are used to analyze inputs from the candidate or test taker and compare them using models developed from carefully prepared training datasets to produce results.
  
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  For essay scoring, a model was created for each essay question by collecting more than 200 essay samples and analyzing them using multiple human raters to create a training set. For personality factor evaluation, more than 10,000 known and scientifically documented statement–personality relationships were collected from various sources to create the training set. For speech analysis, more than 100,000 voice samples were analyzed by human raters against various factors to create the training set.
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  In each case, HR Avatar does not produce any recommendations for hiring or promotion decisions. The results are merely presented alongside other information that can be used to inform a decision-making process. Numerous caveats are presented in score reports discouraging the establishment or use of “cutoff” scores based on AI-derived or any other results. Instead, a balanced review and analysis process is recommended to ensure employment decisions take all available information into account rather than be focused on any one criterion. In our view, having additional inputs into this process based on responsibly developed AI adds to this process and results in better and more fair decisions.
  
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  If you have questions about how HR Avatar uses AI, please contact us.

Examples of professional services engagements

• Assessment development or modification
• Job Analysis
• Validation Study
• Develop Custom Job Profile (Assess existing staff and modify report to show candidate comparison to your team's benchmark)
• Report customization
• Disparate Impact Analysis
• Develop Realistic Job Preview
• Situational Judgement Tests
• Integration Services (HR Avatar standard APIs make integration easy)
• Brand simulations (put avatars in your uniform or your environment)
• Insert employer brand messaging within assessment

HR Avatar tests use a whole-person approach.

• Each HR Avatar test is designed for a specific job and includes 4-5 assessment types, including simulations of job-related tasks and measures of cognitive ability, personality, machine-scored essay*, past behaviors, and knowledge and skills. (Only tests designed for jobs that require writing ability contain the essay component.)

Customization Features

• Your report can be optionally modified to show the profile of your existing staff so that candidates scores are compared to your team's benchmark. (Additional fee to setup.)

Works on Mobile Devices

• Authorize tests, review reports, sort candidate records, from any smart device. Test-takers can complete the assessment on any smart device and they lose their connection, they can resume when they regain their connection.

Candidates like our assessments!

• Candidates find HR Avatar tests more engaging that other tests, which is why candidates are 60% more likely to complete an HR Avatar test than the industry average -- for tests of even shorter length, too!

Hundreds of Job-Specific Tests

• Search the catalog by job title, keyword, job family, etc.
• Catalog is searchable on our website (no account required).

Administration Options

• All functions work on mobile devices
• Apply your brand to the test experience and test results report
• Embed multi-use test links in job postings or email campaigns (set it and forget it)
• Customize test invitation message template
• Optionally proctor an assessment from your account
• Click to send a test link to a single or multiple candidates

Customization Features Included in Base Price

• Show or hide EEOC data collection
• Configure your account structure and user permissions
• Customize email templates for candidate communications
• Add your company logo to assessment experience and results report

Optional Customization (Additional fees apply, based on scope)

• Integrate with your systems (i.e., ATS) - (HR Avatar APIs make integration easy)
• Brand the simulation experience (put the characters in your uniform or your work environment)
• Modify existing assessment questions
• Develop new assessment (save by using existing animation assets)
• Incorporate in-assessment employer-branding and messaging