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> Videos introduce bias towards young, attractive candidates and bias away from shy people or those without a lot of confidence or experience talking at a camer
by FalconSensei 5y ago
> Videos introduce bias towards young, attractive candidates and bias away from shy people or those without a lot of confidence or experience talking at a camera.
Regarding young candidates: it's specifically targeted at Gen-Z.
Regarding attractiveness, confidence and experience talking/acting in front of a camera: there are a lot of jobs where that's important.
I doubt the intention is to hire senior engineers via tiktok.
- ryandrake 5y agoYea, I think a lot of the criticism being posted here on HN is because this would be, at best useless, at worst counter-productive, for hiring software engineers in particular. But there may be other careers where a short video would be helpful. So I'd be willing to give the idea the benefit of the doubt. Just please don't use it to try to hire me in tech! I have enough disadvantages, I don't need my monstrous looks and obvious signs of old age to put me at a greater disadvantage. Written resume for me, thankyouverymuch. At least a written resume helps you get your foot into the door before the onsite interview happens and looks-based biases start making their way in.