Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants
conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 months agoYou should hate it as a manager. You're filtering out every single quality candidate because only a deranged nut job would even consider such an unhinged request.
You don't need to process every candidate. Just randomly take 5%, or 1%, or .001%, and do a real hiring process. Anything at all is better than requiring a video application.
Vanth@reddthat.com 4 months ago
It’s been working for me pretty well.
I certainly wouldn’t select this tool for hiring for all jobs, it does filter on some skills that are directly related to the job I hire for. Customer facing. High levels of comfort with office software and videoconferencing. Showing some degree of preparation when giving the question or request in advance. Being able to put someone in front of a customer or government official and trust that they hold it together is important.
I don’t see value in it for a role that doesn’t require those sorts of communication skills. Some analyst or programmer who mostly works on their own projects and only interacts with their internal team? This isn’t the tool to use in hiring.
OmanMkII@aussie.zone 4 months ago
I don’t really get why people are up in arms at this stuff. I hate the idea of doing these type of interviews, sure. But my grad program had 3k applications, 1k video interviews, 300 in person interviews, and only 100 actual roles. How the fuck else do they expect people to handle the sheer size of applications in management/HR roles?
Vanth@reddthat.com 4 months ago
bane_killgrind@kbin.social 4 months ago
Yeah lol that's because you don't seem to have any empathy for the people you are hiring. Why is it important if you don't care about it? Easy answer is it isn't.
bane_killgrind@kbin.social 4 months ago
You are selecting for the people privileged enough to know how or spend the time figuring out how to record and send video. Even if someone has used teams every day for presentations, it's easy to avoid using recording features when videoconferencing is all live.
If your workplace creates pre-recorded videos for office use, then sure I guess it's a skill you can select for.