Abstract:
While personality traits have been traditionally modeled as behavioral constructs, we novelly posit job hireability as a personality
construct. To this end, we examine correlates among personality
and hireability measures on the First Impressions Candidate Screening dataset. Modeling hireability as both a discrete and continuous
variable, and the big-five OCEAN personality traits as predictors,
we utilize (a) multimodal behavioral cues, and (b) personality trait
estimates obtained via these cues for hireability prediction (HP). For
each of the text, audio and visual modalities, HP via (b) is found to
be more effective than (a). Also, superior results are achieved when
hireability is modeled as a continuous rather than a categorical variable. Interestingly, eye and bodily visual cues perform comparably
to facial cues for predicting personality and hireability. Explanatory
analyses reveal that multimodal behaviors impact personality and
hireability impressions: e.g., Conscientiousness impressions are impacted by the use of positive adjectives (verbal behavior) and eye
movements (non-verbal behavior), confirming prior observations.
