shouldn’t<\/em> interview someone.<\/p>\nThis creepy robot person … well, they have the advantage of skirting around extraneous issues — visual prejudices around dress or weight or race or other extraneous factors (recognized or not) — and first impressions that may or may not have anything to do with job success. And I now that I did video interviewing during my last j0b hunt that, while frustrating to me by not providing a conversational \/ interactive experience, might have eliminated some extraneous factors as well (or might not have, since I didn’t get those jobs).<\/p>\n
A creepy robot may seem … well, inhuman and demeaning, but it’s not much worse than a written set of questions one is asked to respond to. And, honestly, also probably no worse than some of the utterly IT-clueless talent acquisition folk who interviewed me and were clearly going off of a script that they didn’t understand.<\/p>\n
Bottom line, the whole job interview\/acquisition model is deeply flawed, which anyone involved with it will tell you … but by the same token, nobody has any silver bullets to make it better, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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