You will do your next job interview with a robot. That dehumanization is unraveling candidates

A young woman named Ken public In its Tiktok account (@its_ken04) a 25 second video that quickly went viral. In him this user showed how he was being interviewed by Alex for work. The problem is that Alex was not a real person, but a virtual avatar with AI. One that also began to hallucinate and demonstrates that the dehumanizing experience of looking for work is going worse.

Robots -made interviews. Both recruiters and candidates They use AI to advance increasingly broken selection processes. The consequences for each other, yes, are very different. The candidates who face the job search process already used to meet a dehumanizing experience, with rough processes and lack of response by recruiters. Now things are going worse, because AI is doing those even more terrible processes.

My interviewer alucina. Ken counted in 404 average His recent experience when interviewed by a bot called Alex and developed by the company APRIORA. During the interview Ken, who was looking for work near his home in Columbus, Ohio (USA), saw how the virtual avatar stuck and repeated the phrase “Vertical Bar Pilates” 14 times in a row for no reason.

A spooky experience. Before the interview, the company warned it that AI would be used during the selection process. Despite that notice, for Ken the experience was “spooky and I was scared. I did not make any funny until I published it in Tiktok and the comments made me feel better.” The video already has more than 3,600 comments, and in all of them the support to Ken was unanimous. And in many cases the conclusion was the same.

I will not interview myself with an AI. Ken already made it clear that “if another company wants to speak with an AI I will simply decline that offer.” Who commented on their video published similar answers. “If you don’t take the trouble to interview myself, I will not take the trouble to try to work there,” said one of the comments. In another, a user who had responded to an offer for a Human Resources department, asked “why would I want to work in human resources in a company that is not even worthy to have a human interaction?”

The promise of recruiting robots. Aguriora was founded in 2023 and its managers promise that thanks to their robotic recruiters, companies can hire “87% faster” and conduct “interviews 93% cheaper” because several candidates can be interviewed at the same time. One of the co -founders, Aaron Wang, explained in Forbes for months to “the candidates prior to interviews in many cases, because that reduces their anxiety and allows them to perform in the best possible way during the interview.”

Generalized rejection of the IAS that do work interviews. That does not seem to be the feeling of those who are interviewed. In Slate They narrated the experience of a videographer named Tyler Jensen, who was also found being interviewed by an AI that began to get stuck.

Other users who have gone through the process have ended up publishing memes and false and satirical videos In Tiktok trying to ironize about an increasingly dehumanizing experience. Some even are found by surprise with which those who are interviewing them is an AI. In all cases, the sensation is the same: disappointment for the growing dehumanization of a process that was already hard and usually demoralizing.

What do experts say. Mike Peditto, a practical expert consultant for interviewers, explains that technology can certainly help filter candidates. In fact, it made it clear that this will go more: “It is becoming something gigantic. I think we are going to a future in which (the work interviews carried out by an AI) will be generalized.” But he also admitted that “there is a slow will to adopt by job seekers, which I understand perfectly.”

An industry contaminated everywhere. The job search processes have long been corrupt. Interviews are only part of the work, because candidates too They try to save work and apply to many offers at the same time with CV that they make with the help of the AI ​​and that customize for each job. As if that were not enough, candidates “train” Chatgpt simulates being the recruiter. The AI ​​is everywhere, and although it can certainly be helpful, it is generating even more problems for either side of the equation.

And the algorithms fail. We have already seen how to delegate certain processes so that it is the machines and algorithms that take care of them can be dangerous. It happens of course in the field of job search, where for months some companies They use AI systems to analyze and filter the curriculum vitae with the so -called monitoring algorithms of candidates or ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems). A study by the University of Washington He indicated how AI systems favor 85% of the time to those CVS that belong to names of men traditionally used in Caucasian men. In fact, that same study indicated how black men were the great harmed, and were rejected by these systems almost 100% of the time.

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