Examining the Influence of Personality and Multimodal Behavior on Hireability Impressions

Harshit Malik, Hersh Dhillon, Ravikiran Parameshwara, Roland Goecke, Ramanathan Subramanian

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Abstract

While personality traits have been traditionally modeled as behavioral constructs, we novelly posit \emph{job hireability} as a \emph{personality construct}. To this end, we examine correlates among personality and hireability measures on the \textit{First Impressions Candidate Screening} dataset. Modeling hireability as both a discrete and continuous variable, and the \emph{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 \emph{text}, \emph{audio} and \emph{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: \textit{e.g.}, Conscientiousness impressions are impacted by the use of \textit{positive adjectives} (verbal behavior) and \emph{eye movements} (non-verbal behavior), confirming prior observations.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of ICVGIP 2023 - 14th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing
EditorsCV Jawahar, Vijay Natarajan, Shanmuganathan Raman, Vineeth Balasuburamanian
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages1-9
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9798400716256
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Dec 2023
EventThe Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP) : ICVGIP 2023 - IIT Ropar, Ropar, India
Duration: 15 Dec 202317 Jan 2024

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

ConferenceThe Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP)
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityRopar
Period15/12/2317/01/24

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