I really loathe the “sell yourself via video snippet” aspect. 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.
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.
Interesting, why do you find it more degrading than selling yourself via text snippet (your CV)?
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.
- 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.