HirePreter: A Framework for Providing Fine-grained Interpretation for Automated Job Interview Analysis

There has been a rise in automated technologies to screen potential job applicants through affective signals captured from video-based interviews. These tools can make the interview process scalable and objective, but they often provide little to no information of how the machine learning model is making crucial decisions that impacts the livelihood of thousands of people. We built an ensemble model – by combining Multiple-Instance-Learning and Language-Modeling based models – that can predict whether an interviewee should be hired or not. Using both model-specific and model-agnostic interpretation techniques, we can decipher the most informative time-segments and features driving the model's decision making. Our analysis also shows that our models are significantly impacted by the beginning and ending portions of the video. Our model achieves 75.3% accuracy in predicting whether an interviewee should be hired on the ETS Job Interview dataset. Our approach can be extended to interpret other video-based affective computing tasks like analyzing sentiment, measuring credibility, or coaching individuals to collaborate more effectively in a team.