Job Application Hell
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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.
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.
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.
Dad, how did you buy a house at 25?
Son, life is what you make 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.
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.
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"
Could be worse, could be BrassRing. Best way to make sure everyone changes their passwords is to forget everyone's password every day.