McKinsey is making job applicants spar with a fake AI client

咨询公司麦肯锡（McKinsey & Company）正要求部分入门级求职者在面试过程中与人工智能模拟的客户进行 10 分钟的对话，据《华尔街日报》报道。

The AI simulation “aims to reflect 80% of the scenarios McKinsey consultants might encounter in their day-to-day work,” the WSJ says, and it isn’t designed to “mimic an unhinged client.” The AI won’t score the candidates — humans will be in the room to assess the candidates and see how well they deal with the simulated situations.

据《华尔街日报》称，该人工智能模拟“旨在反映麦肯锡顾问在日常工作中可能遇到的 80% 的场景”，且其设计初衷并非“模仿情绪失控的客户”。人工智能不会为求职者评分——现场会有工作人员负责评估求职者，观察他们如何应对模拟情境。

The McKinsey tool will be in testing for undergrads seeking business-analyst jobs in “some” offices in North America this fall, and the WSJ says “hundreds” may use it.

今年秋季，麦肯锡将在北美“部分”办公室对申请商业分析师职位的本科生进行该工具的测试，据《华尔街日报》报道，可能会有“数百人”使用该工具。

Other companies are also building tools to use AI avatars as part of the job interview process, and my colleague Hayden Field tried some of them out for a video we published in March.

其他公司也在开发相关工具，将人工智能虚拟形象纳入面试流程。我的同事海登·菲尔德（Hayden Field）曾在我们三月份发布的一段视频中试用过其中一些工具。