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.
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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!
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.
*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.
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.
"Are you a fuck up? Please expound, in detail."
100% recording this under a bridge in the middle of the night with animal eyes showing up in the camera lense.
The nice thing about developing a skill is that it really puts the inter in an interview. The employer has to be polite and answer questions. They feel bad about wasting your time because you will walk away if they do that too much.
Wouldn’t recommend life. I suggest asking for a refund.
just sends 3 minutes of my apartment with no sound
Just find something wild on tiktok and paste it
I hated these. They were all from the sketchy companies, too. None of the good ones I actually wanted to work for did this.
Luckily somebody circled it for us, I'm not sure I would've known what was being pointed out to use otherwise.
Since this screenshot of a post never disclosed what the subject of the video needs to be and simply mandates a speech 2-5 minutes long, one could record their voice over a stock film of something random
Huh. Guess it’s time to fire up the AI script deepfake generators and put ‘em to use.
