Bias audit of Aptly’s scores
An independent bias audit of Aptly’s scores is being arranged. When it is done, its summary will be published here: the auditor, the date of the audit, the data used, the number of applicants and of people in an unknown category, and the scoring rates and impact ratios for sex, race/ethnicity and both together.
New York City’s Local Law 144 asks employers who use an automated employment decision tool to have it audited for bias by an independent auditor each year, to publish a summary, and to tell candidates beforehand. Until an audit is published here, companies hiring in New York City should use Aptly’s scores only as information, after a person has reviewed the application.
What Aptly measures
When someone applies to a job through Aptly, Aptly can work out scores that help the company’s hiring team review the application. A person at the company makes every decision; Aptly never rejects anyone automatically.
- Qualified: how the applicant’s experience, skills, education and licenses match the job description. It is shared unless the applicant unticks it.
- Satisfaction and Longevity: from the applicant’s Interests, Work Values and Work Personality tests, how well the work would suit them and how likely they are to stay. Shared only when the applicant ticks the box.
No score uses race, ethnicity, sex, age, religion, disability, veteran status, health or address. To check that the scores treat groups fairly, Aptly compares scoring rates (the share of each group scoring above the median) using the voluntary, anonymous self-identification answers applicants may give, and works out impact ratios (each group’s rate divided by the highest group’s rate).
If you are applying
Every job on Aptly that uses the scores in New York City says so on the job page and the application form, with the qualifications assessed, the data used and how long it is kept. You can ask the company for another way to be considered or for an accommodation from the job page. See how Aptly scores are used.
This page is information, not legal advice.