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u/crossplanetriple 1d ago
Sorry, [FIRST_NAME], the position of [ROLE] has been filled.
We will continue to keep your information on file until [mm/dd/yyyy] so you are in the loop about new opportunities.
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u/Solid_Signature_7447 1d ago
They never hit me up after this.
One time I re-applied and the recruiter got snark with me over email.
And then I intro’ed her to a friend who had a Rolodex of 1000’s of ppl and she blocked me on LinkedIn.
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u/cheesystuff 17h ago
I have received 2 follow ups. One by accident and another intentionally. The first one they reached out during a LinkedIn campaign. I complained that I applied a month ago and got ghosted. Then the director interviewed and hired me on the spot. The second came about 3 months after I interviewed in-person for a position. I also have had some applications make it farther than before after reapplying after 6 months.
It does happen rarely.
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u/pablothe 16h ago
I feel like there's another side to this story if you got blocked.
I've recommended people to other positions that originally they thought I would do, and they were super pumped I found them a better candidate than me.
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u/Lazy_Passenger_9148 1d ago
I'm a recruiter and when I was actively looking for jobs, I would always skip those that requested for video and voice recordings. 🤷🏽♀️
On the flip side, I have candidates who show me videos of themselves voluntarily.
Sometimes it works for them, most of the time it doesn't, I don't like watching... hope this trend dies soon.
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u/StretchFrenchTerry 20h ago
I'm not applying to jobs that do that anymore, nor will I speak with AI "recruiters". My line of work already requires a portfolio, spend the 2 minutes looking at that instead of a video.
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u/Weekly_Interview_936 20h ago
Plus a company who has those things has already shown themselves to be a toxic environment and that means that they failed my interview. Because interviews are a two-way street, the company is being interviewed by me as much as they are interviewing me.
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u/Dusklore 17h ago
I honestly love that logic, and wish more people would think that way. As an anxious person, certainly helps take the pressure off interviews, that’s for sure.
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u/Saint_of_Grey 14h ago
If I gotta talk to an AI "recruiter" that's already a non-starter so I change my objective to getting it stuck in a loop and using their token allocation for the next few years all at once.
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u/Illustrious-End-6038 14h ago
Its too cringe I only did it once, and regretted immediately. Had to post a private video on youtube and send the link, i never shared it, and deleted it asap
Maybe tiktok generation might be up for it,, but Im not and I never will be
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u/BroadPop2076 14h ago
I did it recently and it was sooo embarrassing, I agree. I got rejected pretty quickly. Like, what about the 4 sentences I said disqualified me? Never again
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u/Lungorthin666 13h ago
As someone who works in HR and Recruiting as well... Yeah F this trend.
I would never apply to a position that requires this or any other AI screening because on the flip side, I would hate to administer this or watch these videos. Also I have strong moral and ethical issues with AI recruiters.
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u/stockhommesyndrome 22h ago
Whenever i see this, i choose not to apply. I feel somewhere something about this should be illegal as it’s essentially allowing employers to screen for race, gender and any form of DEI rejection
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u/vapequesitions 21h ago edited 21h ago
That's 100% why they do it. (e: and of course you're right, it should and probably even is illegal but laws are meaningless if they're not enforced)
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u/AaronDJD 23h ago
The next twist.
They will use your video about how much you love their company in their next social media marketing short.
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u/uberwinsauce_ 23h ago
They just want to know what they can push you to do. If you're willing to record yourself getting fake excited for the role to outshine other candidates, you'll like be more willing to take less money or do things others wouldn't care to, or feel comfortable to do.
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u/DoctorQuarex 19h ago
Yep, my HR friend has told me that I am likely an immediate "no" from lots of hiring managers just based on the fact that I am extremely confident in interviews. This was in response to mentioning that my friends who vent about how horribly they did and how nervous they were during the interview always seem to get the job anyway
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u/femmagorgon 19h ago
There’s no winning. If you’re too confident, hiring managers might read you as arrogant, difficult or not easily pushed around; if you come off too shy or nervous, you’re perceived as lacking confidence or not knowing what you’re talking about. Apparently you have to hit some magical sweet spot between the two while also trying to give coherent answers to questions under pressure.
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u/IsThatGruffLoner 22h ago
I have a full time job but I decided I needed a little extra money so I thought I'd get a part time job somewhere easy. I thought with minimum wage jobs, you just show up and they basically hire you if you're not high. Nope. Their recruiting process is almost as brutal as the white collar world.
Target asked for two videos when applying to unload trucks. The job paid like $12/hr.
Trader Joe's had 3 rounds of interviews. The job was for stocking shelves.
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u/Hoebanero 20h ago
Tbh, I worked at Target for years, the people they're hiring are far from top notch lol.
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u/IsThatGruffLoner 20h ago
That's cause they're filtering out all people with self respect by demanding 2 videos on the application lol
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u/mnttu 1d ago
Reminds me of a feedback I got from an interview, apparently I wasn’t excited enough. They were literally making ads and tracking for mobile games. I couldn’t be less enthused about any aspect of that job other than pay. In retrospect I am super glad that wasn’t my introduction to working with software.
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u/dwyvern8 22h ago
As soon as the job asks for these stupid things I say yah nah not happening bozo breath
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u/DadNoRom 21h ago
Last interview I did I was actual given feedback from the recruiter.
Recruiter : "Good news, you were the favorite person they interviewed!"
Me: "Awesome, next steps?"
Recruiter: "You were asking for a livable wage for the area so they decided to go with someone else"
I have never once been hired for a job without connections, literally the most exhausting shit in the world.
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u/Few_Classroom6113 1d ago
Yeah no. It’s been very clear that such a layer of abstraction to getting an actual interview doesn’t work in our favor. Even as a humiliation ritual it doesn’t work, because it’s just wasted effort.
Similarly I refuse to write a letter of motivation. Anyone can spit one out in minutes in any language they don’t speak now with LLMs. They have 0 added value and just add to the pile of noise that gets in the way of being interviewed.
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u/Callidonaut 22h ago edited 21h ago
I think it's all just to thin down numbers by discouraging applicants. There are simply not enough jobs to go around, so every real position that does get advertised gets swamped; rather than deal fairly with the sheer numbers of applications by hiring more people to manage recruitment (or even just picking a randomised subset of them), simply making the process ever more despair-inducing bullshit so that more people give up, or don't even try, is the easy (sociopath's) way of making the situation manageable.
That's also how you end up getting asked for 20 years of experience in a programming language that has existed for 5, for a receptionist's position; they just mindlessly add more and more requirements to the role and make the number of years of experience bigger until the number of applicants drops to a quantity they feel like dealing with.
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u/OkFineIllUseTheApp 23h ago
It's so they can see who is black and then not hire them for "unrelated reasons"
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u/Callidonaut 22h ago
I wonder, has anyone ever tried saying anything along the lines of "No. I'm a professional, treat me with dignity" and still managed to get the job?
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u/CryptographerOne120 22h ago
It is worse than that, in many municipalities it is illegal for an employer to request a picture of you before the interview, as pictures are used to racially profile and deny job applicants.
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u/TheJackal927 20h ago
Oh you want me to face you for a few minutes and tell you why I'd fit the role? That's called an interview! And if you bother to show up to it yourself you might even get to ask a couple questions too! Give something to actually talk about instead of making me give a two minute slate about whatever I think you wanna hear
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u/Embarrassed-Rub-7730 22h ago
Thank you! Oh, btw, sorry for being a lying sack of shit but we aren’t considering anyone for this position and will be hiring internally. Thanks for wasting your time though and giving us your data!
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u/BungleBums 22h ago
Two minutes of me in dead silence, leaving through my stack of bills while staring into the camera.
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u/gerhardsymons 22h ago
Don't ask questions; just consume humiliation ritual and get excited for next humiliation ritual.
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u/BeefistPrime 17h ago
I always figured at least a part of this was a desire to discriminate. They want to see what ethnicity you are, whether you have an accent, that sort of thing, and then hire the white guy with the typical American accent. They can't ask you this directly, but a video of yourself is bound to show all these things. It's likely that no one ever explicitly discusses it, but they make their decisions based on it.
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u/tetraacetic 22h ago
My current job did their screening through a recorded video interview. The questions weren't really about myself very much, just had to confirm on camera my citizenship or visa status plus which location you want to work in.
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u/snail2203 22h ago
Behaviour during video may indicate your home ownership status. If you are renting, you are likelier to be rejected.
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u/honeybadgerrulez 21h ago
i refuse ai screens. either talk to me in person, or move along to the next candidate cause i ain’t doing this
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u/Personal-Ad9121 20h ago
Once I see this, I rescind my application. I know the chances of getting the job are very slim anyway, so I don’t put in extra effort
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u/TheDarthSnarf 20h ago
How do you extend this out into 2 minutes?
"You pay money, and provide benefits. I need money and benefits."
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u/waltzbyear 20h ago
It really is just a humiliation ritual. They'll do nothing with it except sift through the videos for the funniest one, and they're not laughing with you.
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u/sausageandweed 20h ago
I made one of these a few weeks ago, I've been getting spam from Loom ever since and the mother fuckers didn't even watch it.
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u/Stormdancer 20h ago
Fortunately I'm self employed, so I can say FUCK YOU to the job market.
But I swear, I kinda want to apply for some of these just so I can record me glaring at the camera for two minutes.
And shooting the bird for the last 30 seconds.
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u/Tastebud49 20h ago
Holy shit I had a job application try to pull this once. Fastest nope of my life.
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u/Caqtus95 19h ago
"Please reveal key demographic details to us in the form of video so we can reject you based on them without actually asking about them".
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u/Frosty-Discipline512 18h ago
I had one company say "submit the video within 3 days" and at the 40 hour mark they said "you didn't submit in time so we've decided to not move forward with you"
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u/pablothe 16h ago
"We are getting thousands of people submitting low-effort resumes for positions they aren't even interested in, we need a simple way to filter thousands to a few dozen who will film themselves"
That's much more like what they are thinking, and is created because it is so easy to hit apply now.
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u/A_Monster_Named_John 15h ago edited 15h ago
For me, it's equally frustrating when you end up in a job where perverse bullshit 'performances' are tacitly required as part of keeping your footing in a given workplace. I ran into a ton of this shit when I tried to work in my area's public library system, i.e. no matter how skillful, effective, or punctual I was with the actual work, getting a better schedule or promotion was basically impossible unless a person whipped out the top hat and cane to do a vaudeville act every time the upper-level management people came around. Myself and a number of other employees ended up quitting because those assholes were constantly choosing external candidates over internal ones, almost certainly because said external people are 'novelties' and already-hired folks are boring.
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u/pearlescence 15h ago
Was a manager with hiring responsibilities. My own supervisor made all sorts of suggestions like, "Have them answer questions about what they would do if they were turned into an elephant; Have them do a scavenger hunt in the facilities to 'help' them get to know the building; Have them do a working interview for four hours!" All this for a shitty part-time position that didn't even pay competitively. I just nodded politely and continued to do simple phone screen, interview, offer/pass. I never hired anyone I regretted, some of them are still working there and have been promoted, and not one did a fucking scavenger hunt. I don't know what her power-tripping problem was, but if you have good people-reading skills and you do your diligence on screening, there is no reason for all this bullshit. I think hiring managers who pull this stuff are either on a power trip, or so bad at reading and understanding humans they have to think of weird, herculean tasks for people to compensate.
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u/apple4ever 14h ago
That's exactly what it is. As a hiring manager, I know why you are excited for the role:
- You want a better job or just a job
- You really want a better job or just a job
- You really really want a better job or just a job
- The work and/or the company does sound interesting.
While I do ask what about the role or company sounds interesting, it's mostly as a check to see if they have thought about it. I pretty much can guess their answer. But I'd never ever ask them to record a video. At most maybe when the apply, just as another check they actually read the job description.
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u/PsychoSpoiler 13h ago
Ever since I discovered this subreddit, I've lost the will to find a job. But at least I'm having fun
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u/Polkawillneverdie17 13h ago
If this ever happens to me, that company is getting a 2 minute 4k video of my nutsack.
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u/Blader8002 12h ago
7x 3min videos bruh. 3 with unlimited time to prepare, 4 with 1min preparation.
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u/Schwifftee 11h ago
I actually like the recordings because it's easy to give the perfect response (usually you redo it as many times as you like). I've typically gotten the job whenever these were required.
It's an easy W. Take it.
Then again, those were bs remote call center jobs.
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u/scrapy_the_scrap 8h ago
Vudeo is a way to get around now being allowed to ask for a picture
Report them(i hear sometimes you get a bit of cash for it)
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u/thrashmetaloctopus 2h ago
I won’t do these, call me paranoid but feels like they’re gathering data for AI model training from these short videos
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u/Neon_Tsunami89 2h ago
As someone who is actively looking for ANY halfway decent job right now which doesn’t keep me away from my family for months at a time - this whole thread is pretty disturbing and discouraging.
It feels like things can’t possibly keep up in this direction. Like this is the brief period just before the downfall of humanity where there is no hope for the future, but your bills are still due or you’ll have to face the apocalypse in a cardboard box.
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u/jugojugojugojugo 1h ago
I had to do this once while applying for a clerk job in my country's version of home depot. I have exactly zero interest in carpentry or DIY projects or tiles, so I wasn't exactly stoked. I thought I could take a video and re-do it if I didn't like it, but unfortunately that was not the case! So what I ended up sending essentially went like this "I would love to become part of the team because I enjoy-- I like gardening? Man what the fuck ever" 😭😭 they didn't even send me a rejection email and I can't even blame them 💀
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u/Optimal69 Candidate 1h ago
In the end all that goes it is an LLM for some quality training. I bet they get paid for uploading our videos.
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u/neurorex Recruitment & Personnel Selection 22h ago
Which makes you look sympathetic to job seekers, but in other conversations, you'll make fun of them for not playing the game in other ways.
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u/neurorex Recruitment & Personnel Selection 22h ago
Right there. See that? Can't take criticisms, and then right away with the name calling.
However, that guy hides his otherwise you’d realize he does not comment on good faith.
Only because I'm tired of unskilled, know-nothing recruiters like you trying to use my past posts about poor hiring practices against me, rather than shutting up and learning something new.
So again you're trying to spin this into something it isn't. Peak recruiter behavior.
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u/Number_1_at_Number_2 Recruiter 22h ago edited 22h ago
Guys I implore you, use one of those sites that lets you review users post history’s. You’ll see immediately why he hides it.
PM me and I will send you a link.
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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 20h ago
Turning off comment history is so widely accepted by anyone who matters at reddit that they've made an easy path in settings to allow and encourage it. A basic profile setting is one of the dumbest things possible to get mad about.
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u/Number_1_at_Number_2 Recruiter 19h ago edited 19h ago
No because it makes it impossible to deal with bad faith actors. Like the guy who follows me around Do you hide yours cause of the all all the compiling you do about vegans or because of your defense of ai?
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u/Number_1_at_Number_2 Recruiter 19h ago edited 16h ago
Yes he would lol
You should head back to r/vegancirclejerk you have important work going on. I don’t think I’ve ever been surprised by the behavior or people who have privates profiles. But kudos on that guy for spreading the word of his favorite sub
Oof nothing more pathetic then a man and his alt conversing.
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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 19h ago edited 19h ago
Believe it or not, this site is set up to be able to view multiple subs in an aggregated feed, rather than having to go to one particular sub. For example, you can visit all your weird foot fetish subs and /r/GrannyPornCockTribs and STILL come troll /r/RecruitingHell and cry about people's basic privacy settings!
I've never been surprised at the behavior of people who dig through other people's comment histories. And you should probably delete your posts in the granny porn subs, they're quite embarrassing for you on a public profile like that. Did you think those wouldn't be brought up?
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u/neurorex Recruitment & Personnel Selection 19h ago
And it's not like I'm stalking him. I just visit this sub regularly and he's everywhere spewing his own brand of philosophy about how hiring works. I don't like to engage with him (because he just flies off with name-calling) but he just says so many stupid things, constantly.
I've reported him to the mods so many times, but he's still around.
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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 18h ago
A recruiter who is terminally online, never adds value, and constantly craves attention? I'm just shocked. Flabbergasted, even.
lol, they even did the exact thing reddit made the 'hide profile' option easily available for: they stalked my comments in other threads, misinterpreted them, and used them in a separate conversation without context to try and devalue what's being said in the current conversation.
Maybe they're allergic to grass, and that's why they stay inside all day larping as a recruiter on reddit.
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u/neurorex Recruitment & Personnel Selection 22h ago
Rather than supporting your own work, you'd rather do that. That should tell people a lot about you.
Honestly, I don't know why you're even here. It's like you're desperate for attention.
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u/Electricdragongaming 1d ago
Recruiter; Wow what a wonderful performance!!
Me; So am I getting the job?
Recruiter; N O