TikTok Tests Letting US Users Apply for Jobs With Video Resumes (engadget.com) 33
TikTok is expanding into job recruitment. From a report: As of today, the company has launched a pilot program that allows people in the US to apply for entry, associate and senior level positions by tagging videos they upload to the platform using the #TikTokResumes hashtag. You can see a list of the approximately three dozen companies that are taking part in the pilot, as well as the jobs they're hiring for, by visiting TikTok's dedicated resumes website. Some of the more notable brands taking part include Shopify, Target and the Detroit Pistons. Applicants have until July 31st to apply for the first set of jobs posted on the platform. In expanding in this way, the company says it "believes there's an opportunity to bring more value to people's experience with TikTok by enhancing the utility of the platform as a channel for recruitment."
This is a good idea (Score:2)
How many people have their CV, portfolio, or video resume on youtube? Seems like almost as good an idea as LinkedIn + blogging.
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Good lord no. I don't want to be responsible for people's therapy bills.
Great! (Score:2)
Hiring women for positions on my staff has never been easier than since I brought Russ Meyer in as head of H.R.
Terrible Idea (Score:5, Insightful)
It too easily enables stereotyping or racial profiling.
On the other hand... (Score:1)
It too easily enables stereotyping or racial profiling.
To me I see the opposite. Someone just writing up a resume on paper could be easily rejected by someone with biases for all sorts of reasons.
But someone on video, if the reviewer is biased against people of color (for example) they might find they really like someone when they see them on video, and give them a chance where they wouldn't have before.
It gives a chance to let charisma and/or elocution overcome racial and ethnic stereotypes.
I don't think
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I don't think it would remove bias but I guess there is no way to stamp that out completely. At my last job, the Hispanic supervisors wouldn't hire black women because they were "lazy and too much drama." It was hard to report since the situation complicated the normal racial injustice theme (and the white HR didn't want to be in a situation of filing a discrimination case against a protected class.)
Charisma definitely can overcome some areas where the interviewee is lacking such as employment gaps.
Yep could help in that case (Score:1)
I don't think it would remove bias
Yeah I'm not saying it would remove bias, but it could help overcome bias when you actually see any given applicant as the individual they are, rather than have your biases easily act on someone who is just a piece of paper.
At my last job, the Hispanic supervisors wouldn't hire black women because they were "lazy and too much drama."
That is exactly the kind of thing I think the videos might be able to overcome, it's much easier for someone to come across as "not lazy" in a
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It enables fully revealing everything that an employer cannot ask.
You can get things like sex, age, race, and other such prohibited criteria from a simple video application.
You see the applicant is female of about child bearing age? skip! Black? Skip! Ugly? Skip! Obese? Skip!
Though this does suddenly call up how would companies protect against this - I mean, you can't claim blind luck if you hire 6 white males in a row as you could if you simply ran thr
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It too easily enables stereotyping or racial profiling.
Versus an in person interview?
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The thing is, by the time you get to an in-person interview, the company would've invested a lot of time already.
Remember a lot of the hiring tricks are to get through the initial filters - to make sure your CV is a part of the 1% that make it through the initial filtering. Then there's the phone interviews and such to narrow the field down to a handful of candidates. At this point you're called for an in-person interview. The company has invested a lot of time in your applicat
science common sense (Score:2)
Welp if that plays out then you're right, until then you don't actually know.
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YEP, the concept is EXTREMELY data miney. Analyse way more than you skin colour, eye shape and hair style but all your gestures and even hidden stuff that most people are unaware of but a program can definitely be keyed to pick up on it.
Video job applications, for by far the majority of you, they can learn way more about you than you think they can.
Reasonable method for job applications, with no person to play against with smarm and charm, it will be interesting to see how AI interprets your facial expre
reading (Score:3)
I want to read your resume, or probably skim through it. I don't want to watch your video. When I'm ready to watch you then I'm also ready to interview you. I don't have time to watch videos, you realize I'm looking for help, right?
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What if the position is newscaster?
Re:reading (Score:4, Insightful)
What if the position is newscaster?
Then a video demo either accompanies a written resume, or is sent in response to a request for such a video after reading a written resume.
Tiktok videos may be short-form, but it still presents information in a linear manner. From a technical perspective, a PDF copy of a resume takes 200K, maybe. A video is tens of megabytes.
If this format was helpful for job hunting, Youtube has had a decade-long head start and it would have taken off by now, and LinkedIn wouldn't exist.
This sucks if you're over 40 (Score:2)
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Naw. In an age of deepfakes I'm sure we all can put on a happy face. [compulsiongames.com]
Presumably... (Score:3)
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You're thinking zoomers.
Millenials are the ones using linkedin the way boomers use facebook.
Ugh, absolutely not (Score:2)
Not interested (Score:2)
Do you think I have time to sit through a slew of applications, each of which running 5 minutes? I want to skim the interesting points, that's not possible in a video.
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Do what I do. Read the Youtube comments.
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I'd rather read a description.
Whenever I'm looking for a tutorial, I always hope I get something written rather than someone trying to convey the information in a video. Especially when it's lengthy and the visual context does not immediately tell you where the nugget of information may be hiding that you're looking for in the 30 minute video.
In a text, I can do an automated search for the stuff that interests me. Try that in a video.
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sux2bme (Score:2)
But a video resume? I suck at that sort of thing.
If this becomes a thing I predict the YouTube "influencers" will get all the jobs, while those of us who are actually good at what we do but suck at promoting ourselves will be shit out of luck.
The person who tries this (Score:2)
Hmm (Score:2)
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