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I would have to be MUCH more desperate than I am to ever accept being interviewed by a damn machine... It's even worse than those "record yourself answering these questions" bullshit. Nobody should work for a company that does not even respect them enough to talk to them
I genuinely don't understand the point of candidate filters like this. Is it that corporate has drank the kool-aid, and think the job they are hiring for genuinely requires some 1-in-1000 skillset?
Every time, somebody says "yeah but they get thousands of applications a day, how could they possibly handle all that?!"
.... Don't. Just, filter them through some basic metrics, and then rank the ones that are left through a random number generator. Interview those candidates in order until you find a good fit.
The average job doesn't benefit at all from hiring people who can specifically pass some bizarre reverse Turing test, and the average video interview should only cost you 15-30 minutes of (also underpaid) HR salary, which is certainly less than a contract with these AI vendors + the increased risk of discrimination lawsuits.
Lmao. Your suggestion for they can't handle to many applicants is to...just handle it.
... No? My whole point is that they don't need to process and assess every last applicant with things like the AI in this post. If - through the process I just described - they only actually assess 50 randomly selected applicants out of the 1000 when they find a good one, there's nothing wrong with that. Send an automated rejection to the other 950 and move on.
You've never hired anyone have ya. So you'd pass up a PhD in favor of a random just because he didn't make it the random 50.
So again we're back to " just handle it" you people don't seem to realize there are thousands of people around the world who spend their entire life coming up with different ways to "handle it" and you think your little five minute thought is just so profound that no one has ever considered it.
... I'm sorry if you've spent your entire life on this, but this is bizarrely hostile. Countless people have spent countless hours hiring candidates without AI. This isn't some genius-level solution to an unsolved problem, this is just an attempt to downsize HR departments.
The company doesn't suffer some material loss if they miss out on hiring a marginally better candidate, and it's not like these AI solutions have been around long enough to prove that they can even find the "best" candidates. Especially when they're certainly filtering out qualified professionals who don't want to justify themselves to a glorified chatbot.