> It’s inhumanely degrading.

Hyperbole much? There are a lot of inhumane, degrading things in this world. TikTok videos are not one of them.

Anyways, clearly some people thought it would be cool and interesting. I think this will be an interesting alternative for those that don’t do well with resumes.

Fortunately, no one is going to make you use this, so I don’t know why everyone here is acting like it will be forced on them. This is obviously a secondary application method, one that will work particularly well for creative or extroverted types.

> Hyperbole much? There are a lot of inhumane, degrading things in this world.

There are degrees of inhumane and degrading. Sure, there are plenty of worse things than having to apply via a video CV on Tiktok, but that's a difference in magnitude and not a difference in kind.

Short-video clips are a few steps removed from a tryout at a strip club? Can’t tell if sarcasm - surely you realize how absurd this sounds? It is simply a different way for candidates to express themselves.

When you’re initiating an interview process and it begins with a video snippet where the candidates “sell themselves”, it necessarily highlights photogenic candidates as well as exposes their ticks. This may well skew hirings toward the younger demographic.

When you put it like that...I still think the strip club comparison was weird because I can think of at least one other other common and far less contentious career-path with an interview/try-out process similar to this:

Acting.

Is there perhaps something deeper you want to say about sex workers that’s going unsaid right now?

Acting is apt; however, at least in principle you’re doing a screen test given you want to ensure acting ability as well as photogeneity. But we also know the colloquial acting couch.

Strip clubs don’t care what your skills are, they mostly look for the eye candy their clientele seeks. Video is similar in that it doesn’t care about skills other than maybe being able to present yourself at the cost of all other attributes.

There are a lot of really interesting assumptions and projections being made about a number of classes of people going on in this mindset.

But okay.

Thanks for clarifying and sharing your perspective.

Well, we’ll have to wait and see how it gets used but I see potential for this being abused.

It’s not different from TV news vs Daily newspaper. One is more fluff than the other. When was the last time you saw an “ugly” news anchor. In the papers you don’t care what the reporter looks like.

During a sit down interview you at least have a chance to make your argument if the interviewer has misconceived something or it needs elaboration.

>When was the last time you saw an “ugly” news anchor. In the papers you don’t care what the reporter looks like.

To be completely honest, I don't care what the reporter looks like in either case. But I'm going to presume this was a rhetorical question and not meant as a reply or question to my specific manner of news consumption?

You'll have to forgive me (or, well you don't have to, that's up to you) but this still feels like putting the career carriage in front of the job prospect horse to me-for some reason. Perhaps said another way: none of what you said speaks to me to be a problem with the medium of interviewing (in this case video, ostensibly via tiktok), but instead rather the individuals participating in the process.

I can't quite pin down why, but it's a very strong sensation. I'll take this elsewhere and find a way to reconcile it without going turtles all the way down here in the thread.

A service such as this would save Harvey Weinstein a ton of time.

It's quite normal in a lot of countries to include a picture with the resume/CV. The "photogenic" bias could exist in the process as well, yeah?

Yes, German women agree this is problematic.

So pretty much like real word interview, or what?

Also photogenic characters are at an extreme disadvantage with people like you, who have prejudice against them. So everything evens out in the end.

Tryout is at the extreme side of being intimate and without any due distance at all. CV is is impersonal and as much distance as you can get. Videos are in between. Is it still absurd?

> 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)?

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.

> 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.

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.

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.