I'd rather roll naked on a mat covered in legos
(midwest.social)
Brand New SentenceSorry, i work IT, not entertainment industry.
I once applied for a job where the organization explicitly did not ask for any information about me; no résumé, no job history, not even my name. The application was a questionnaire/test designed to evaluate how well I could perform the job. It was outside of my professional experience, but I did well enough that they selected me for round 2. It was glorious. Even though I didn't get the job, I felt good about the process, and that they had legitimately chosen the correct person.
I've now done some hiring, and wonder why companies stick with these practices that just don't work. Fear of not doing what everybody else is doing?
What you saw in that hiring process was a company genuinely trying to avoid discrimination.
I'll give you three guesses why most companies don't do that.
I left two job apps on the table last year for this very reason. Those companies can fuck right off.
Remember when it was unthinkable to include your photo with your resume as it introduced the prospect of all kinds of unconscious biases (age, race, sex, beauty standards, disabilities, etc)?
cuz lol fukit who cares now rite?
cuz lol fukit who cares now rite?
I mean, who is going to stop the faceless, soulless corporate suit from doing the 60s-era bigotry when we're letting Elon Musk do Mecha-Hitler on an international scale with zero pushback?
We crossed that Rubicon five or six Rubicons ago.
As much as I love HEB their hiring process required this and I fucking cringed so hard.
I've never felt more like a pleb. Dance for the camera monkey. Maybe we'll consider you.
Also give me your social before you can hit submit.
Fucking Lowe's won't even let you submit. You have to go through an AI agent and have a conversation with them to apply as they ask you the questions you use to be able to just fill out.
I'm tired boss...
I'll fucking stay poor. I'm not making a video for when you have free time to check it out this isn't YouTube. And then they'll make you do a video interview. And then they'll make you come in for a group interview. And then they'll bring you back one more time for an in person solo interview. All these hoops are just classist elitist bullshit
It's to make sure you're an obedient little ~~wage slave~~ ~~dog~~ employee who will jump through endless hoops for your ~~masters~~ ~~betters~~ employer.
On the one hand, I this is borderline hazing and I hate it.
On the other, I've seen the backend of my company's HR department. We get tons and tons of what amount to spam-submissions. Little more than fishing attempts by recruitment agencies, independent consulting firms, and spam-marketing firms that are just trying to valid email addresses from anyone in the company to respond to them.
This is maybe one step up from the "Click Here To Prove You're Human". Because it's some soulless corporate policy, it pushes the burden of validating your humanity as far onto the individual applicant as possible.
It's also a very underhanded way to filter out people based on appearance, language skills, and disability.
Maybe when a small firm does it but when companies like AMC or FedEx try it then its clearly going to be used to train AI.
This sounds like a scam to collect even more data on you to sell to the brokers. Like an new revenue stream dreamt up by Stanford MBAs looking to impress silicon valley demons.
To be fair, it doesn't necessarily say the video has to be of you.
In my more recent attempts at job hunting, I've started drawing stick figures on a paper and placing that in front of a camera and using those old windows xp era text-to-speech for anything I had to say.
Needless to say, I never get those jobs.
The only moral Rick Roll.
3 hrs of my dog humping pillows later...
The first round interview for a major hospital chain that has a habit of their CEOs being shot down for their bullshit is a video interview with a robot.
Just before COVID I went through it out of curiosity. I had 20 seconds to read and consider a question and then it would star recording my video answer with a timer. It was awkward AF. The final question was "tell us about a time you displayed compassion at work" and I kept laughing through my response.
I didn't get a second round interview.
The final question was “tell us about a time you displayed compassion at work”
I did interviews with people live and not as pre-recorded video that would make them feel awkward and miniscule AF.
🤣🤣🤣
Do you mind sharing more?
Also AI interviews 🤮
Also a red flag.
