I hate this so much.
If you want to do a video interview, sure. But I’m not going to willingly give you a recording of myself without clear use terms.
How long are these files retained? Is this video subject to data privacy laws? Since they’re requesting it be uploaded elsewhere, how many 3rd parties am I involving myself with by the end of this interview process?
Not to mention, we live in the era of deepfakes for voice and video. Do I have any gaurentee that this won’t be used to train some AI model somewhere?
This level of hoop-jumping pre-employment should be made illegal on par with hazing laws. Not everyone can afford to be picky about potential employment.
Doesn’t actually say the video has to be of you; just to submit a video response.
3 min loop of the “this is fine” dog redone as a gif would be my response.
It’s not just about what they can use the video for. This also lets them screen for a lot of protected classes without actually asking about them. Your name and resume don’t convey your skin color, your accent doesn’t come out in your work history, nobody can make guesses about your sexuality based on your work email address, but these all become much more easy to discriminate against with a video. All under the pretext of “We didn’t like their answer to the question.”
And you don’t even get the context of an interview to defend yourself.
All excellent points.
Your name and resume don’t convey your skin color
Your name is (usually) a pretty big giveaway for your ethnicity, and in most countries it’s the norm to have a picture of yourself on your resume
In the US, it certainly isn’t. It’s viewed as a red flag for a US company to ask for a photo unless the job is something where appearance is an important quality like actor or model. I think the US grapples with this kind of discrimination more than many of the countries where it’s the norm.
If you want to know what I look like, bring me in for an in person interview.
Not everyone can afford to be picky about potential employment.
I was talking to a friend about a company that treats its employees poorly and he said “Well, they chose to work there,” and I wanted to give him a lecture about how sometimes people have to choose between a shitty job and the streets.
In the age of deepfakes, no way I’d trust make that video and submit it with all the other personal details I’d be putting into the application forms. That’s a recipe for ID theft.
You know without that circle I would never have known where to read
Here, does this help
Yes thank you so much
You’re welcome. I would do anything for you.
It’s just gonna be me staring into the camera for 5 minutes.
Under [Andy] Warhol’s direction, subjects of the [artwork] Screen Tests attempted to sit motionless for around three minutes while being filmed, with the resulting movies projected in slow motion. The films represent a new kind of portraiture—a slowly moving, nearly still image of a person.
Obvious Rickroll opportunity.
Which of these two shapes best describes your personality and work ethic? Write a 3 paragraph explaining why.
I would say my work ethic is mostly kiki. How you interpret that is up to you.
Ok:
a 3 paragraph explaining why
Nailed it
I’ll pretend like that was intentionally written that way as a form of satire
My answer:
I only see a single white rectangular shape with holes, I don’t think this particular shape describe in any way my personality or work ethic. 3 paragraphs seems way too much to talk about a white shape.
We all say bouba, but it’s really kiki
Bouba and Kiki! I haven’t seen those two in ages. I heard they had a kid. Total waste of a gender reveal party. Kid constantly subverted all expectations.
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On top of the protected class bypass a required video provides, we all know where that fucked up question is going in our American corpo language.
“I just see a lifetime of adversity as an opportunity to work even harder for my economic betters, herp derp!”
The same shit universities have been doing for ages, for the same reasons.
Same reason the opinion of virtually every prominent US economist is antethetical to the interests of most Americans.
Almost certainly the video will be fed into a platform that determines “worker quality via microexpressions”. I know because I’ve worked closely with the software provider before. It’s obviously all pseudoscientific bullshit, but employers love that kind of stuff.
Which is really just a system you can use to discriminate with plausible deniability: We didn’t not hire people because of X protected characteristic; the “scientific” computer program never selected them as a quality worker.
google the person reviewing this, talk about them by name, then get 5 or 6 people to do the same. wear a mask, have a voice filter and hold a medieval mace during the video.
This is to keep people from actually applying, right?
It’s a “how desperate are you” application question.
Ahh that makes sense too
Post to pornhub, copy, paste.
HR: why didn’t you do the video part?
Me: I don’t have a camera
HR: What about your phone?
Me: I don’t have one of those either.
HR: I literally just watched you use the calendar!
Me: No you didn’t. Are you okay? You seem to be imagining things.
HR: You’re literally recording a video of me right now!
Me: I think you mean I’m Livestreaming you right now. But I’m not doing that either. You’re definitely imagining it.
So even if I could understand filtering out the lazy folks from those who are willing to jump through this particular video submission hoop, why the fuck do they waste people’s time with such a ridiculously nebulous prompt? I honestly don’t know how I would answer such a vague question for more than 30 seconds.
Oh that’s easy. It’s to filter out people who acknowledge that anything other than their actions impact their quality of life.
The ability to bullshit on demand is an invaluable skill in the corporate world.
I know now how my manager got her job.
They are seeking the desperate who are easier to exploit.
“nobody wants to work with a Debbie downer”
