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14th November 2022

Post reblogged from oligopsosis with 1,313 notes

official-kircheis:
collapsedsquid:

Large employers are using these “asynchronous video interviews” to whittle down job applicants to a smaller pool they can meet in person. Platforms such as HireVue and Modern Hire record applicants answering pre-determined questions, usually with a time limit for each answer. In some cases, the recordings will be watched by the employer’s hiring managers. In others, the platform’s algorithms will assess the candidate based on what they said or even their facial expressions.
AVIs are increasingly common. Of those employers using video interviews in the UK in 2019/20, 46 per cent were doing them with an interviewer, 30 per cent were using automated video interviews and 24 per cent were using a mix of both, according to the Institute of Student Employers.
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He worries that if he glances down or up it will look like he is reading notes. “It does feel robotic,” he says. In most cases, he wasn’t able to review the videos and wasn’t told if a human or a machine would judge him. He has never received detailed feedback after a rejection.
Do these people not like
Think critically about this
Why should there be a correlation betwewn facial expressions and job performance?
How well does this resemble the actual tasks of the job? How often do you have to answer questions with time limits without external resources or help? Of course you’d like to know if you candidate knows about tree data structures for a programming job, but why not assess that in writing? (and do you think a NLP model can accurately grade the answer?)
This is a hate crime against autists too
I feel like a lot of people don’t understand how this sort of thing works, and it’s a problem because it’s an increasingly important section of our economy, so I want to talk about that a bit. The detail a lot of people miss is that the companies using these services are getting screwed and will be worse off for it. You don’t need to feel sorry for them or anything, because they made bad decisions and (as you note) will ultimately pass the costs of those mistakes on to everyday citizens, but the dynamic is important!

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