This is correct and I feel a lot of them want people to do case studies and other things just because they get joy out of seeing how much time others wasted on jumping through the hoops.
It's worse than that though because it looks like a lot of companies are faking these jobs for the sake of fixing their numbers and committing fraud at least if it were a bunch of data farming bot scammers it would somewhat make sense but that's really shit.
This could be fake but I also could see some smaller company having this as part of their job application.
If I was any good at videos, I'd start the video with me talking in my house normally about how amazing my life was going while walking around my house and maybe slicing some meat while doing some cooking. I'd talk about graduate university, banging hot chicks, getting a new car, new place, making money off bitcoin and a whole bunch of shit. After a couple minutes, I'd add special effects where things start going blurry and it's like whoever is watching is actually on psychedelics and it's just a dream.... then I'd wake up in a hospital bed, covered in bandages from head to toe, in a cast and the doctor standing over me telling me I might never gain mobility again, then fast forward again to me in a wheelchair, deformed and handicapped in my house where I started the video with the video zooming out on me a little and then just ending the frame slowly with me just in my kitchen in the wheelchair staring across the counter.
While a wonderful piece of arthouse cinema, the reason they want a video is to assess your accent, speech style, sex, and skin color, without the legal ramifications of actually asking those questions.
In australia they aren't allowed to hire you based on a video - you have the right to remain anonymous until the actual physical interview. Many people don't realise this and still upload a video.
As a current seeker of employment I can speak to this a bit.
One thing I have encountered is that many places use similar IT based HR software as part of their application process. The one I have been dealing with is workday dot com. Every single time I have had to use that site to apply for a position I have to make a new account.
Every.
Single.
Time.
The question in the OP likely originates from within this sort of HR service. It was offered to the employer as part of their package, and they used it.
I get doing some useless questions that require effort to test other things that what the question is actually asking but posting a video seems to me like it would be stepping over a few lines in the legal sense but then again I'm not American and from what I've seen of your invoices your rules are a lot more lax than the ones where I live.
That image has been going around the internet amongst the usual suspects. Originally posted by a gal named Salem Pierce. Supposedly it is an actual question on a job application. Although the job application process in America is complete bull shit, I do wonder if this is real or something staged for clicks. As I noted earlier the usual left-wing suspects are passing this around and sites that have this image linked have commentary about how it will be used to prevent people with mental disorders or "extra melanin" from getting jobs. My question is, is this real or just another story taking advantage of the current job market's bs to engineer a story to get everyone the same page (or just the usual victimhood narcissism)?
I don't know if this particular question is real, but I wouldn't surprised if it is. I've seen job postings that want an essay on why you want the job and all kinds of other bullshit in lieu of the usual (admittedly pretty useless) process. It strikes me as a way to make the process even less objective than it is already, because god fucking forbid the decision be based on anything other than whether the interviewer personally likes the applicant.
I will attest to the "please post a video of yourself" questions on job applications. Before Covid made everyone go crazy, I was throwing apps out in Texas for whatever, and several of them had these same kinds of things in them. I patently refused to do them, and instead of a link I left scathing comments about "give me a real interview, this is stupid," but they are 100% real. This isn't a meme image.
I applied for a job with a MAJOR global mining company about a decade ago and the first interview was recording video answers to a series of questions. The video answers had a min and max time and you were allowed 2-3 takes per question.
As I noted earlier the usual left-wing suspects are passing this around and sites that have this image linked have commentary about how it will be used to prevent people with mental disorders or "extra melanin" from getting jobs.
That was honestly my first thought. This would seem a really good way to screen out bitter and resentful people.
Although they don't need to worry about being covert about that. They'll just put it in the ad. If they want a free form type question they can just write "how has marxism benefited your life"?
I applied for a tech position at Principle Financial and they were doing this video bs. I got past this level and managed to get not only an interview but also an offer. I turned it down because I landed a better offer somewhere else in the time they were deciding.
Psst, you want to know something incredibly disturbing about those assumptions boomers are making that makes them look even more ignorant than they already are? People are actually submitting CVs and applications to companies, but the companies are deliberately rejecting applicants and not filling positions for the sake of faking hiring growth, it's a thing. Many of even the established companies are operating blatant scams and don't generate any real value anymore and I'm sure there will be industry guys older than me who will attest to that.
Edit: Hadn't realised somebody had already posted about this but they're claiming data farming LOL.
Edit 2: What makes this even funnier as well is so many of the jobs are fake for the sake of growth and ESG targets this year we're probably going to see even more layoffs from millennials and they'll be moving back with their parents if they're on speaking terms and I will laugh because the leftists are one of the few groups of people who deserve it.
I've been looking for a new job recently and it is disgusting how many job applications ask you for your pronouns, have imaginary genders listed, and just straight up say "we support diversity and inclusion". I feel like I'm being ignored on most of these applications solely because I'm a white guy.
You 100% are and I feel like it should be an experiment by men especially to send in their CVs and then change their names to something appropriately 'foreign' sounding and mention you're a migrant. I would not be surprised if all those business would immediately call back after rejecting any names that look white. They can't ask you about ethnicity but I'm sure as shit they'll discriminate on names. We've known for some time now they're clearly looking at photos.
I wouldn't mind doing some comparisons based on the profession too. I've looked at programming jobs, shocker, even stuff like Blender and I've ranted in the past about how it's obvious that the people putting these jobs up don't even know what they're hiring for. They seem to just throw whatever buzzwordy tags at it that sound like it will get them somebody who knows tech and then leave it at that. Depending on what douchebags they are they inevitably expect their tech guy to do multiple jobs for the company and be their generalist.
Every time I see this shit, it not only confirms my prejudice but reminds me that taking the more difficult path of building myself up to be legitimate competition and crush them. I have the experience now to qualify easily with my programming knowledge more than some university graduate with my AI knowledge alone and could get myself hired by the game studios, they'd probably be really impressed with my portfolio these days. There's no way especially with the background stuff I've seen though and from chatting to the occasional industry professional I would work with these shit heads.
It's even worse when you're looking at something specialised like C#, it would be pretty funny I think to compare notes. I really do look at these companies and think, there's probably maybe two guys there who actually know what they're selling. Which is why if you're going to run a games company especially every employee should have mandatory gaming sessions. That goes for even the janitor and the receptionists, so they're not massive dipshits if people ever ask them what they do at their job.
Edit: I just saw this little line in the job application for gameplay programmer with Larian Studios and I fucking laughed because it didn't take all that long to confirm my prejudices.
Work on all aspects of systems of the game: engine features, gameplay, UI, audio, animation ,scripting.
Fuck you then give me 6 paychecks if you're going to make me do all the work while everybody else goofs off doing their daycare activities every day. Gameplay is gameplay, it's nothing else, the rest of the team should be doing their fucking job and I shouldn't be doing anything else besides co-ordinating and making sure it isn't buggy shit.
No wonder these arseholes are getting beaten by teams of 3 autists though Larian seems to be a bit of an outlier at the moment.
Uhh, C# really isn't very specialized. It's right behind Java, which is behind all of the joke scripting languages used by wanna-be programmers who write shit code that makes your computer slow.
I suppose I should post specialised by normie standards, I am aware of the absolute clusterfuck of full stack dev purpose written languages among other things :P
If a job application requests a video, you can record your response without being visible on camera. Focus on your voice, tone, and the content of your answers. Remember to speak clearly and highlight your qualifications. Good luck with your application! 🌟
This is correct and I feel a lot of them want people to do case studies and other things just because they get joy out of seeing how much time others wasted on jumping through the hoops.
It's worse than that though because it looks like a lot of companies are faking these jobs for the sake of fixing their numbers and committing fraud at least if it were a bunch of data farming bot scammers it would somewhat make sense but that's really shit.
Please generate blackmail material, and/or AI training data for us.
This could be fake but I also could see some smaller company having this as part of their job application.
If I was any good at videos, I'd start the video with me talking in my house normally about how amazing my life was going while walking around my house and maybe slicing some meat while doing some cooking. I'd talk about graduate university, banging hot chicks, getting a new car, new place, making money off bitcoin and a whole bunch of shit. After a couple minutes, I'd add special effects where things start going blurry and it's like whoever is watching is actually on psychedelics and it's just a dream.... then I'd wake up in a hospital bed, covered in bandages from head to toe, in a cast and the doctor standing over me telling me I might never gain mobility again, then fast forward again to me in a wheelchair, deformed and handicapped in my house where I started the video with the video zooming out on me a little and then just ending the frame slowly with me just in my kitchen in the wheelchair staring across the counter.
That's about how i feel my life has gone.
While a wonderful piece of arthouse cinema, the reason they want a video is to assess your accent, speech style, sex, and skin color, without the legal ramifications of actually asking those questions.
Just check the person's LinkedIn profile if you want to discriminate. That's why it exists.
In australia they aren't allowed to hire you based on a video - you have the right to remain anonymous until the actual physical interview. Many people don't realise this and still upload a video.
As a current seeker of employment I can speak to this a bit.
One thing I have encountered is that many places use similar IT based HR software as part of their application process. The one I have been dealing with is workday dot com. Every single time I have had to use that site to apply for a position I have to make a new account.
Every.
Single.
Time.
The question in the OP likely originates from within this sort of HR service. It was offered to the employer as part of their package, and they used it.
Could be worse, could be BrassRing. Best way to make sure everyone changes their passwords is to forget everyone's password every day.
I get doing some useless questions that require effort to test other things that what the question is actually asking but posting a video seems to me like it would be stepping over a few lines in the legal sense but then again I'm not American and from what I've seen of your invoices your rules are a lot more lax than the ones where I live.
That image has been going around the internet amongst the usual suspects. Originally posted by a gal named Salem Pierce. Supposedly it is an actual question on a job application. Although the job application process in America is complete bull shit, I do wonder if this is real or something staged for clicks. As I noted earlier the usual left-wing suspects are passing this around and sites that have this image linked have commentary about how it will be used to prevent people with mental disorders or "extra melanin" from getting jobs. My question is, is this real or just another story taking advantage of the current job market's bs to engineer a story to get everyone the same page (or just the usual victimhood narcissism)?
I don't know if this particular question is real, but I wouldn't surprised if it is. I've seen job postings that want an essay on why you want the job and all kinds of other bullshit in lieu of the usual (admittedly pretty useless) process. It strikes me as a way to make the process even less objective than it is already, because god fucking forbid the decision be based on anything other than whether the interviewer personally likes the applicant.
I will attest to the "please post a video of yourself" questions on job applications. Before Covid made everyone go crazy, I was throwing apps out in Texas for whatever, and several of them had these same kinds of things in them. I patently refused to do them, and instead of a link I left scathing comments about "give me a real interview, this is stupid," but they are 100% real. This isn't a meme image.
I applied for a job with a MAJOR global mining company about a decade ago and the first interview was recording video answers to a series of questions. The video answers had a min and max time and you were allowed 2-3 takes per question.
That was honestly my first thought. This would seem a really good way to screen out bitter and resentful people.
My first thought was the exact opposite.
I assume it's a way to make sure you are melanated or genderspecial enough without explicitly putting it in writing.
That too.
Although they don't need to worry about being covert about that. They'll just put it in the ad. If they want a free form type question they can just write "how has marxism benefited your life"?
Seen it, got past it.
I applied for a tech position at Principle Financial and they were doing this video bs. I got past this level and managed to get not only an interview but also an offer. I turned it down because I landed a better offer somewhere else in the time they were deciding.
^ Average boomer response
Dad, how did you buy a house at 25?
Son, life is what you make it.
Psst, you want to know something incredibly disturbing about those assumptions boomers are making that makes them look even more ignorant than they already are? People are actually submitting CVs and applications to companies, but the companies are deliberately rejecting applicants and not filling positions for the sake of faking hiring growth, it's a thing. Many of even the established companies are operating blatant scams and don't generate any real value anymore and I'm sure there will be industry guys older than me who will attest to that.
Edit: Hadn't realised somebody had already posted about this but they're claiming data farming LOL.
Edit 2: What makes this even funnier as well is so many of the jobs are fake for the sake of growth and ESG targets this year we're probably going to see even more layoffs from millennials and they'll be moving back with their parents if they're on speaking terms and I will laugh because the leftists are one of the few groups of people who deserve it.
I've been looking for a new job recently and it is disgusting how many job applications ask you for your pronouns, have imaginary genders listed, and just straight up say "we support diversity and inclusion". I feel like I'm being ignored on most of these applications solely because I'm a white guy.
You 100% are and I feel like it should be an experiment by men especially to send in their CVs and then change their names to something appropriately 'foreign' sounding and mention you're a migrant. I would not be surprised if all those business would immediately call back after rejecting any names that look white. They can't ask you about ethnicity but I'm sure as shit they'll discriminate on names. We've known for some time now they're clearly looking at photos.
I wouldn't mind doing some comparisons based on the profession too. I've looked at programming jobs, shocker, even stuff like Blender and I've ranted in the past about how it's obvious that the people putting these jobs up don't even know what they're hiring for. They seem to just throw whatever buzzwordy tags at it that sound like it will get them somebody who knows tech and then leave it at that. Depending on what douchebags they are they inevitably expect their tech guy to do multiple jobs for the company and be their generalist.
Every time I see this shit, it not only confirms my prejudice but reminds me that taking the more difficult path of building myself up to be legitimate competition and crush them. I have the experience now to qualify easily with my programming knowledge more than some university graduate with my AI knowledge alone and could get myself hired by the game studios, they'd probably be really impressed with my portfolio these days. There's no way especially with the background stuff I've seen though and from chatting to the occasional industry professional I would work with these shit heads.
LOL, Java and JavaScript used to be synonyms on job descriptions back around 2010. HR uselessness with regards to the tech field is a constant.
It's even worse when you're looking at something specialised like C#, it would be pretty funny I think to compare notes. I really do look at these companies and think, there's probably maybe two guys there who actually know what they're selling. Which is why if you're going to run a games company especially every employee should have mandatory gaming sessions. That goes for even the janitor and the receptionists, so they're not massive dipshits if people ever ask them what they do at their job.
Edit: I just saw this little line in the job application for gameplay programmer with Larian Studios and I fucking laughed because it didn't take all that long to confirm my prejudices.
Fuck you then give me 6 paychecks if you're going to make me do all the work while everybody else goofs off doing their daycare activities every day. Gameplay is gameplay, it's nothing else, the rest of the team should be doing their fucking job and I shouldn't be doing anything else besides co-ordinating and making sure it isn't buggy shit.
No wonder these arseholes are getting beaten by teams of 3 autists though Larian seems to be a bit of an outlier at the moment.
something specialised like C#
Uhh, C# really isn't very specialized. It's right behind Java, which is behind all of the joke scripting languages used by wanna-be programmers who write shit code that makes your computer slow.
I suppose I should post specialised by normie standards, I am aware of the absolute clusterfuck of full stack dev purpose written languages among other things :P
This is mostly just a way for HR to filter candidates by race without openly saying "white men need not apply".
This sounds like something a woman would come up with
"Please use our shitty app"
If a job application requests a video, you can record your response without being visible on camera. Focus on your voice, tone, and the content of your answers. Remember to speak clearly and highlight your qualifications. Good luck with your application! 🌟