CCtoAlaska- the employment Apps do NOT try and predict success (I’ve been a beta tester for many of them). What they do is weed out the clear failures which is an entirely different animal. No algorithm can tell a recruiter who will be successful- but if a job requires a degree in economics, programming skills, and at least two years of work experience, by eliminating everyone who applies (thousands of people) who do NOT have any of the above, the algorithm saves time and money.
Just wanted to correct you on a factual point. Even the very sophisticated users of these algorithms (CIA, Mossad, Google, Apple) don’t claim to be able to predict success… but by eliminating the folks who don’t have the minimum requirements, human beings can spend their time assessing the folks who do.
I have a colleague who recruited for the CIA for many years. We would joke that even when a job posting said in three different places “fluency in Korean required”, the applicants would tout HS level Spanish, French or Latin.