You know without that circle I would never have known where to read
I kept rereading the time stamp and view count for a solid 20 minutes trying to figure out the point of the post until I finally saw the tiny red circle buried in all of that white background. Damn near impossible to see.
In the age of deepfakes, no way I'd 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.
Obvious -plot-twist: the entire thing is a phishing scam.
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.
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.
We recommend using loom.com for this
Loom is an AI company. You have a guarantee that it will be used to train an AI model.
Assuming this in America, I love how illegal this request is.
I've been asked illegal questions, like "what is your current salary" in job applications before. I like to respond by calling it out and leaving a link to a source. I've never gotten a response from those applications though...
They probably use that to filter out people who know their rights.
Sounds like an employer that needs investigated by several departments.
It's the perfect crime. Most people don't realize it's illegal and those that do either don't have the resources to fight it or don't want the exposure.
NoBoDy WaNtS tO wOrK aNyMoRe
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.
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!"
Upload something where the first 5 seconds is someone apparently doing that, then instantly cut into hardcore porn with extra loud noise
This is to keep people from actually applying, right?
What's the data retention policy? How will this be used, and by whom? What is their data retention policy? Will this be used to train AI? Etc etc etc.
Regardless of the answers provided Hard Pass.
Normalize Saying No
Unless this is for some kind of public speaking position, I would instantly drop the application and not apply to the company again
I saw something similar on a customer service job
This is on the state unemployment departments website in order to be eligible for unemployment cheques
What’s that? A website is asking for public randos to upload meatspin and any other videos found from the internet to their servers for review where HR will need to watch them. I give this form 3 months to live if you share the url
Here's a video capture of scrolling down my resume and cover letter very slowly.
Post to pornhub, copy, paste.
Obvious Rickroll opportunity.
Gee why are we not getting any new applications? Damn millennials don’t want to work!
I just failed a job 'interview' because I kept freezing up on the video. I hate this shit so fucking much. This people should rot in hell. Not kidding, these companies are evil and probably do have that child sex ring the Q freaks talk about. I want to fucking die now.
I don't know if you're in the same boat I am, but this is about the boat I'm in:
saw that on here a couple days back, and I've been applying to jobs for six months! The 'tism is some bullshit.
I'm sure I could get a job at Walmart or McDonald's if I had no standards, but frankly I'd rather just scrape by doing Uber and Lyft. And everything else that I have applied to? Got me two whole interviews. In six months. Which I then never heard back from.
Fuck modern employment culture, man.
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.
They really should name the company.
It's not a person, it's a company behaving badly.
There's a very good way of gauging how much of a dystopian shithole our world has become, and that's by simply watching quiz shows on daytime TV.
Compare Who Wants To Be A Millionaire to The Chase. In its original run, WWTBAM had two milestones for answering 5 (£1,000) and 10 (£32,000) questions correct respectively. This meant that failing after one of these checkpoints guaranteed you that prize. The Chase on the other hand is a series of quick-fire pub quiz rounds with some notoriously difficult questions where you're up against a professional quizzer and have to survive multiple rounds, before all the remaining contestants have to beat the 'Chaser' in a two-minute quick-fire round of pub quiz questions. Fail at any point? "You get nothing! You lose! Good day sir!"
The Chase is legitimately a much harder show where it is exponentially harder to actually win a cash prize as a contestant and that is one of the main reasons I fucking hate that show.
Where am I going with this? With the way the economy, automation, AI, scarcity, human population growth, etc is going, we are one day going to reach a point where we'll have to compete in game shows just to get a fucking job! If recruiters are making you record 2 to 5 minute video responses on a fucking job application, then we're already part-way there.
I don't think I've applied for a job in 20 years and I want to keep it that way. This current job search market is so demoralizing. All my jobs have been through networking
*2 -3 minutes of me saying "SHIT!" over and over*
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.
"Nevermind, I don't work with people who use idiotic interview processes. I can only imagine how dysfunctional and adversarial your company is, based on this idiocy".
"Thank you for uploading your video submission. Our AI system will review your video shortly."
Which of these two shapes best describes your personality and work ethic? Write a 3 paragraph explaining why.
Just record a video of yourself scream crying while making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and singing the national anthem.
"Hi, I don't respect human society because it's observably lacking in compassion. Not only for non-human animals, but even for human animals. You guys are pathetic and I'm not interested in being part of your self-fellating club."
How I'd stretch that out into 2 minutes I don't know.
