How To Beat South Korea's AI Hiring Bots and Land a Job (reuters.com) 41
As Korean firms start using AI to help hire new employees, students are going to school to learn how to beat the bots. Reuters reports: From his basement office in downtown Gangnam, careers consultant Park Seong-jung is among those in a growing business of offering lessons in handling recruitment screening by computers, not people. Video interviews using facial recognition technology to analyze character are key, according to Park. "Don't force a smile with your lips," he told students looking for work in a recent session, one of many he said he has conducted for hundreds of people. "Smile with your eyes."
Classes in dealing with AI in hiring, now being used by major South Korean conglomerates like SK Innovation and Hyundai Engineering & Construction, are still a tiny niche in the country's multi-billion dollar cram school industry. But classes are growing fast, operators like Park's People & People consultancy claim, offering a three-hour package for up to 100,000 won ($86.26). According to Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI), nearly a quarter of the top 131 corporations in the country currently use or plan to use AI in hiring. One AI video system reviewed by Reuters asks candidates to introduce themselves, during which it spots and counts facial expressions including 'fear' and 'joy' and analyses word choices. It then asks questions that can be tough: "You are on a business trip with your boss and you spot him using the company (credit) card to buy himself a gift. What will you say?" AI hiring also uses 'gamification' to gauge a candidate's personality and adaptability by putting them through a sequence of tests.
Classes in dealing with AI in hiring, now being used by major South Korean conglomerates like SK Innovation and Hyundai Engineering & Construction, are still a tiny niche in the country's multi-billion dollar cram school industry. But classes are growing fast, operators like Park's People & People consultancy claim, offering a three-hour package for up to 100,000 won ($86.26). According to Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI), nearly a quarter of the top 131 corporations in the country currently use or plan to use AI in hiring. One AI video system reviewed by Reuters asks candidates to introduce themselves, during which it spots and counts facial expressions including 'fear' and 'joy' and analyses word choices. It then asks questions that can be tough: "You are on a business trip with your boss and you spot him using the company (credit) card to buy himself a gift. What will you say?" AI hiring also uses 'gamification' to gauge a candidate's personality and adaptability by putting them through a sequence of tests.
Illinois has laws on this (Score:4, Interesting)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/... [bloomberglaw.com]
Re: Illinois has laws on this (Score:1)
Which has dick all to do with anything involving AI in Korea.
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same idea but in the usa scope
Skillz (Score:4)
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Your education doesn't matter either.
Re: Skillz (Score:2)
It is very difficult to evaluate education. All they really have to go on is your degree...which may or may not mean you have an education.
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As it has always been. It's one of the first things everyone learns when they start seeking employment: Get a haircut, wear a suit, take a shower, because superficial appearances matter.
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The further you complicate that, the more it becomes a skill in and of itself.
When interviewing with people, there's a ton of subtle signals that you'll be judged on, often subconsciously, by your interviewers. For example. the interviewer may tell himself that how you dress for a tech interview (assuming it's not too crazy) doesn't matter, but it always does, because our judgement is not exclusively in our conscious control. (BTW, the right answer for dress for a professional interview is always to dress
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As it should be.
Very few positions are tailored to antisocial turds who can't string a polite sentence together if their life depends on it.
You're either in a small company and will be expected to have customer relations on top of colleague relations or you're in a big company probably working in a cubicle where you don't want people in a 10m radius smelling you.
Most jobs can be taught to a motivated individual anyway...
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Is it just me or does it seem like you have to be good at a whole bunch of things in order to land a job, but your actual ability to do the job in question seems to be a very small factor?
In dysfunctional organizations (government, large corporations), this has always been the case. They are just reducing the money they did throw away on HR drones now.
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Maybe it works on dating sites also? (Score:1)
If the interview doesn't have to be on-premises, get a hold of the software or algorithms behind them, and train counter AI to make avatars of candidates to say the right things and have the right facial expressions to get hired.
Re: Maybe it works on dating sites also? (Score:3)
More human than human is our motto
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That's why they are offering smile training. Humans judge books by covers, that's just the way it is. When in Rome, do what the Romans do to get alone with Romans, even if it's silly and illogical. We are stuck with humans, so learn to work their system if you want a share of their resources for yourself.
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Correction, "get along with" (Freudian slip?)
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bots vs bots
the early pulp scifi were right, but could never have guessed how
what a time to be alive
interview personality tests are an joke as they ge (Score:2)
interview personality tests are an joke as they get rid of real people who can think.
Questions like
"You are on a business trip with your boss and you spot him using the company (credit) card to buy himself a gift.
May work but others are not that clear cut and a choice of being an snitch can be bad.
Other bad questions are
Did you ever break rules??
and more
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Not sure about South Korea (Score:2)
Smile (Score:2)
"Don't force a smile with your lips," he told students looking for work in a recent session, one of many he said he has conducted for hundreds of people. "Smile with your eyes."
This is ancient. A genuine smile crinkles the corners of the eyes. It's a body language thing to tell if a smile is honest.
Some politicians and preachers have learned to do this -- Joe Biden, Pat Robertson, and so much it now looks fake and strained.
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Simple: Just lie all out with that smile, do not only pretend. Any good con-man knows that in the moment you have to mean it, no matter how much you know it is a lie. Yes, that is messed up. Like a lot of human interaction is.
Re: Smile (Score:2)
So to get the job, you just need a bong and some Visine.
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Potentially Stupid Question. (Score:5, Interesting)
At least in the US, this is a potentially stupid question because it depends on the background of the person being asked. I've worked at companies that gave me a credit card with their name on the face of it (along with mine in the "customized" name), but it was in my name and I was legally required to pay the bills -- if I wanted reimbursement, I had to file an expense report. I've also worked at companies that issued credit cards where the company paid the bill. In the former, you were technically supposed to use the card only for company business, but that was widely ignored and it certainly wasn't considered unethical to do so. In the latter, it would have been considered unethical to use it for anything but company business.
It's a little like a question "Do you use the copy machine at work for personal purposes?". Perhaps at most companies this is against policy, but it's widely done for small amount of copying (not, for example, printing out 2000 flyers for your garage band). However, for many years I worked for a company that explicitly said "Feel free to use the copy machines for personal use -- we would rather you spend 5 minutes making personal copies than leaving work, going to Kinkos, making copies, and then returning to work an hour after you left" (we were, of course, almost all salaried and most people worked whatever time was needed to get the job done).
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Unhappy employees sometimes turn to petty theft as a way to relieve the stress. If there is no job satisfaction, office supplies start to go missing.
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or at retail jobs where the test weeds out people and only people they get are people who can lie to pass the test and you know that petty theft can be big at them.
Voight-Kampf Test (Score:3)
Blade Runner predicts the future again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Classic game theory (Score:2)
"How will you explain that expense to your boss?" Either he admits it before it is a problem, or I know what lie to repeat, if questioned.