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> I really loathe the “sell yourself via video snippet” aspect. It’s inhumanely degrading. Interesting, why do you find it more degrading than selling yourself

> I really loathe the “sell yourself via video snippet” aspect. It’s inhumanely degrading. Interesting, why do you find it more degrading than selling yourself via text snippet (your CV)?

mc32 5y ago
Of course. Text doesn’t care about looks, presentation, voice, speaking skills, etc. It does require forethought, ability to organize things logically, and present the best aspect of your work history, accomplishments and future potential with much less ability to judge and dismiss within mere seconds.
- oefrha 5y ago
  > Text doesn’t care about looks, presentation, voice, speaking skills, etc. Lots of jobs care precisely about those. Most notably sales, but also most other customer-facing jobs. Even for jobs where these aren’t the primary skills, they contribute to overall success. People who are good at these can equally complain that text doesn’t do them justice. In any case, calling these inhumanely degrading is just a subtle way to be inhumanely degrading to people who possess these qualities. It tells us more about you than the process honestly.
  - mc32 5y ago
    I don’t dispute that. However, a video snippet has the potential of disqualifying many prospects before they’ve interacted with a hiring manager because of their short video —which I hold gives them the short shrift.
  - selfhoster11 5y ago
    Great. So now the job market is rigged even more against: - introverts - people without well-developed social skills - people who do OK with smaller, familiar audiences (think an office with 40 co-workers) but not OK with larger, unfamiliar audiences (public speaking and presentation) - non-neurotypicals than it already was in the text CV era. How is that an improvement? Extroverts and people who know how to operate in the society already have an unfair advantage, we don't need to give them yet more of it.

> I really loathe the “sell yourself via video snippet” aspect. It’s inhumanely degrading. Interesting, why do you find it more degrading than selling yourself via text snippet (your CV)?

mc32 5y ago

Of course. Text doesn’t care about looks, presentation, voice, speaking skills, etc. It does require forethought, ability to organize things logically, and present the best aspect of your work history, accomplishments and future potential with much less ability to judge and dismiss within mere seconds.

oefrha 5y ago
> Text doesn’t care about looks, presentation, voice, speaking skills, etc. Lots of jobs care precisely about those. Most notably sales, but also most other customer-facing jobs. Even for jobs where these aren’t the primary skills, they contribute to overall success. People who are good at these can equally complain that text doesn’t do them justice. In any case, calling these inhumanely degrading is just a subtle way to be inhumanely degrading to people who possess these qualities. It tells us more about you than the process honestly.
- mc32 5y ago
  I don’t dispute that. However, a video snippet has the potential of disqualifying many prospects before they’ve interacted with a hiring manager because of their short video —which I hold gives them the short shrift.
- selfhoster11 5y ago
  Great. So now the job market is rigged even more against: - introverts - people without well-developed social skills - people who do OK with smaller, familiar audiences (think an office with 40 co-workers) but not OK with larger, unfamiliar audiences (public speaking and presentation) - non-neurotypicals than it already was in the text CV era. How is that an improvement? Extroverts and people who know how to operate in the society already have an unfair advantage, we don't need to give them yet more of it.