Table 2.

An example of a completed socio-technical matrix containing publicly available information for several commercial hiring ADSs

Hiring ADS	Hiretual	Codility	Pymetrics	Humantic
Funnel stage	screening	screening	screening	screening
Goal	experience	skill	ability	personality
Data	resume professional profiles social media profiles proprietary database	coding test exercises	gameplay scores from applicants and workers	resume  LinkedIn profile Twitter profile
Function	use profiling for job matching	use test performance for screening candidates in/out	use gameplay performance for screening candidates in/out	use personality profiling for job matching
Assumption	professional and social profile can be matched to job fit	code test performance is a predictor of job skills	gameplay is a predictor of job success	personality is a good predictor for job fit
Epistemological roots	social network theory: the idea that who you are connected with reveals your identity	vocational aptitude testing: the idea that test scores predict ability	eugenics: the idea that intelligence and ability are innate and can be revealed through testinga	personality types: the idea that personality is stable over time and a predictor of of performance

^aThis idea has been well debunked in the social sciences, which posit a critique that rests on such abilities as being socially constructed (Hacking, 1986)⁶⁴.