Vanth
@Vanth@reddthat.com
- Comment on Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web 2 days ago:
Fair use once it’s posted on the web? Thank you very much for the framework to pirate anything and everything.
- Comment on This Tiny Robotic Pill Eliminates The Need For Hospital Visits In Stomach Cancer Detection 4 days ago:
Sounds hot
- Comment on Do you check historic brewerys? 5 days ago:
Check out ingredients too. Like kveik yeast that ferments at 90-100 F, allowing people to brew without electrical chillers. Still to be found for use today, NB calls their strain “Lutra”.
Or alternates to hops and how they tied to the Catholic Church and the Protestant Reformation.
- Comment on Amazon Customer Service has become awful 1 month ago:
You doubt… what? That the year-long Prime subscription lapses after a year? … that’s what it’s designed to do…
- Comment on Amazon Customer Service has become awful 1 month ago:
I’m going to let my subscription lapse when it runs out in ~6 months. Yes, that action just drips rage.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 4 months ago:
Where did I say I’m weeding out if they don’t wear a suit? JFC, the lack of reading comprehension is the sort of thing that comes through in these videos. All the time to read, reread, and prep and you still miss 90% of what I wrote.
Customer facing. Interacting with government officials. No, it doesn’t make me a boomer to expect that they be able to prep, be professional, and wear a shirt free of obscenities. Being professional on a video call is literally a required skill for certain jobs these days.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 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.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 4 months ago:
Legal?
I get that some people would decline, sure. But what do you think is illegal about it?
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 4 months ago:
Yeah, I went through comments like this the last time I posted similar to reddit.
Like I said, I hate it from the candidate perspective. From the hiring manager perspective, I got over 200 resumes and that was after automated filtering and after a human HR person filtered them further. I am very open to your ideas for a more efficient way to filter through 200 perfectly acceptable resumes without conducting 2 months of back-to-back interviews. Automated application tools allow for a person to apply to 100 jobs quickly; hiring managers have to get comparable tools, and this video filtering is at least one option in the toolbox.
And to the people who are commenting it’s ripe for sexism/racism/ other isms. Yes, just like in-person or via videoconferencing interviews are opportunities for bias. At some point, one does have to interact with the candidate and their gender, race, etc will be apparent.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 4 months ago:
Bully for you. Some jobs require customer interaction though. Combed hair and clothes without obscenities written on them are sometimes a necessary bare minimum bar for candidates to meet.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 4 months ago:
By simple keyword filtering, yeah. Anyone who spent 10 min doing a websearch on modern application processes would know to take keywords from the job post description and use them in a resume.
In the past ~5 years my company started using pre-recorded video screening too. So a candidate was asked 1-3 questions, they submitted recordings of themselves answering, then hiring managers could watch them later.
As much as I dislike it from the perspective of a potential candidate, I like it from the perspective of a hiring manager. It was asynchronous, so we didn’t have to dance around finding a meeting time that worked for everyone. It self-filtered a lot of candidates who didn’t really want the job or who were uncomfortable with zoom/videoconferencing technology (a requirement for this job). It was very apparent who prepped and who didn’t. It was an easy “no thanks” filter when they submitted recordings of themselves, with no time constraints mind you, wearing totally work inappropriate clothes with filthy backgrounds and an unprofessional attitude. That’s the one that got me the most: the tool gave unlimited time to prep, unlimited time to record, and unlimited number of reattempts. Yet I still got a person wearing workout clothes, unkempt hair, shelves of undresses dolls in the background, and a stunning lack of understanding over an easily websearchable question. It saved hours of time between HR and the interview panel to just say “thanks, no thanks” off the submitted video.
I see AI-based filtering of candidates turning out the same. The people who get it and know how to write a resume and interview will be fine. The people who already struggle will struggle more.
- Comment on Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline's chatbot 4 months ago:
Air Canada has some really dumb lawyers. They could have quietly paid the guy a couple hundred bucks and moved on. Now they’re all over the news, showing off how callous and idiotic they are.