A new obstacle to landing a job after college: getting approved by AI

Post by danpalmer » Sat, Jan 18, 2020, 7:38 PM UTC

52-6F-62 wrote: post #62

danpalmer wrote: post #30

My brother has just finished a masters programme and is starting to apply for jobs, he's coming up against a lot of these. He's smart, motivated, very hard working, and has the necessary credentials on his CV, but when talking to him he's quite monotone and low energy. Because of this, he's failing these automated video interviews as he looks like he's not a "team player" or "personable". While interviewing practice…

I had never heard of these video interview analysis methods prior to this thread. I think it’s at the very least way too early to rely on this and at the worst just... terrible. AST’s are already notoriously bad and this is just a whole new level of just plain bad. Time is precious, sure, but so are human relationships if time means anything. It’s like nuance was completely disregarded in the pursuit of corporate con…

Post by bsenftner » Sat, Jan 18, 2020, 7:43 PM UTC

jimbob45 wrote: post #4

This has got to be a fake. The only way AI would be able to make any sort of correct judgment about someone's probable future performance is if it had some training set of data of employees who had their interviews recorded and who were known to be bad in some way. However, it's still a massive leap in logic to be able to correlate anything an AI could observe to some tangibly bad behavior later on. I'm thinking the…

Post by 52-6F-62 » Sat, Jan 18, 2020, 7:50 PM UTC

danpalmer wrote: post #71

52-6F-62 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had never heard of these video interview analysis methods prior to this thread. I think it’s at the very least way too early to rely on this and at the worst just... terrible. AST’s are already notoriously bad and this is just a whole new level of just plain bad. Time is precious, sure, but so are human relationships if time means anything. It’s like nuance was completely disregarded in the pursuit of corporate con…

They do sound terrible and I hope to never encounter one, but my brother made a good point: the NHS get something like 12k applications per week, they have an average of 25k job openings each month. They apparently can't deal with that manually, which does make some sense. I personally think they _should_ handle it manually, and if the system breaks we should fix it in another way because this way sucks, but I'm not…

Post by JMTQp8lwXL » Sat, Jan 18, 2020, 7:57 PM UTC

drongoking wrote: post #23

Whenever I see AI used for something like this, right after thinking "our dystopia is here," I wonder how it could be gamed. An experienced interviewer can tell when they're being told what they want to hear; I suspect an AI could not. The AI ends up rewarding preparation and acting skills. And when you make too many hoops for people to jump through, eventually you find you're just selecting for those who are good at…

Post by iamleppert » Sat, Jan 18, 2020, 8:10 PM UTC

danpalmer wrote: post #71

52-6F-62 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had never heard of these video interview analysis methods prior to this thread. I think it’s at the very least way too early to rely on this and at the worst just... terrible. AST’s are already notoriously bad and this is just a whole new level of just plain bad. Time is precious, sure, but so are human relationships if time means anything. It’s like nuance was completely disregarded in the pursuit of corporate con…

They do sound terrible and I hope to never encounter one, but my brother made a good point: the NHS get something like 12k applications per week, they have an average of 25k job openings each month. They apparently can't deal with that manually, which does make some sense. I personally think they _should_ handle it manually, and if the system breaks we should fix it in another way because this way sucks, but I'm not…