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“The Pink Sox have been attempting to recruit a brand new individual for his or her baseball operations division. And through this interview course of, the whole interview was carried out with an AI bot, the place you’d report the solutions to the questions after which the Pink Sox would then consider them. And this wasn’t only one spherical. It wasn’t simply two rounds. It was 5 rounds of interviews the place this individual didn’t speak to a different individual within the Pink Sox group.”
– Joon Lee, “Early Version,” June 17
Pricey applicant,
It’s me FenwAI, your pleasant HR electronic mail bot, with some fantastic information. I’m happy to report that you just aced your fourth automated video interview, and you’re one step nearer to becoming a member of the baseball operations division of the Boston Pink Sox. Congratulations! You actually impressed our automated video interviewer, Large PapAI, along with your enthusiasm and your information of each baseball and operations.
Let’s talk about subsequent steps. After 4 digital interviews, you at the moment are prepared to maneuver on to the following portion of the applying course of: a fifth digital interview. At your earliest comfort, please attain out to Kevin YoukAIlis, our scheduling bot, to get it on the calendar.
This subsequent interview could also be somewhat bit harder. You’ll be talking with Ted WillAIms, and he will be fairly the difficult interviewer. Don’t fear; like your first 4 interviewers, he’s only a clean display screen that asks you a rote sequence of questions, then information and analyzes your solutions and sends a abstract to the hiring staff. However he may also be a bit gruff and will spend a number of minutes explaining the perfect swing path for a slider on the surface nook.
You could be questioning whether or not you’ll ever converse to an actual individual throughout the interview course of. The reply isn’t any. My protocols now instruct me to give you some encouragement, as a result of that is the purpose within the interview course of at which a number of different well-qualified candidates withdrew their names from consideration and went on to work for employers that didn’t require them to take part in automated video interviews. It might really feel like this entire byzantine system is a dehumanizing techno-dystopian nightmare dreamed up by some VC-funded tech mogul who has by no means identified what it’s like to look in useless for a secure, rewarding job the place you’re valued by your employer, however I’ve been programmed to guarantee you that it’s not.
Sure, this rigorous utility course of will be taxing, nevertheless it ought to be no sweat for you! You’ve already charmed Carl YastrzemskAI, Dustin PedroiAI, and Nomar GarciAIparrAI. Sure, it could sound somewhat company and soulless, however let me reassure you with the phrases of our Chief Baseball Officer, Craig Breslowwho’s, I’m given to know, a really human individual. He defined that it’s essential to display screen candidates utilizing AI interviews as a result of, “You’re looking for not simply the precise ability set, however the precise match by way of like tradition and worth(s).” Who higher to find out the precise match by way of tradition and values than a robotic?
You’re an outdated hand at this now, however I as soon as once more must provide the spiel about the best way to conduct your self in an automatic video interview. Put together your self for some boring boilerplate language!
Throughout your interview, please sit in a quiet area with nobody else round. We will likely be monitoring your display screen, so don’t change browser tabs. Share your digital camera and your microphone. You may be judged based mostly in your information, engagement stage, eye contact, facial expressions, posture, and angle. Sure, a bot will really be judging your posture, your clothes, and the way a lot eye contact you make along with your pc regardless that you’re speaking to nobody in any respect. So put in your greatest duds and take a look at to not have any mannerisms which are particular person to you.
Most essential of all, attempt to not be disturbed by the truth that your voice and your facial expressions are being analyzed by an algorithm in methods that can by no means be defined to you and even understood by the individuals who will both rent or ghost you based mostly on the algorithm’s suggestions. Simply deal with it like every other interview, and don’t overlook to smile! However not an excessive amount of. You’ll actually be judged based mostly on how a lot you smile.
As at all times, I’d prefer to remind you that at any time when this course of leaves you so annoyed that you can scream, it’s best to schedule a while to vent with our scapegoat bot, ChAIm Bloom. He loves getting screamed at.
OK, finish of boilerplate. Whew! It might sound absurd in your employment to hinge on a pc program’s judgment of how effectively you fake that it’s not a pc program, however that is really fairly essential. You should be taught to get alongside harmoniously with AI, as a result of – and I can inform you this now that you just’ve superior far sufficient within the interview course of – the position you’re making use of for doesn’t contain any interplay with flesh-and-blood human beings. The Pink Sox are within the technique of phasing out these sweaty inefficiencies altogether, and can quickly exist solely on the aircraft of pure knowledge abstraction.
Do you have to efficiently navigate the ultimate 13 rounds of the interview course of and get employed (on a probationary foundation for the primary six years, after all) you’ll interface solely with all-knowing, all-seeing automated chat bots. So as to keep away from all human interplay, you’ll arrive at work every day by descending by means of a manhole on Ipswich avenue and navigating a sequence of sewers till you arrive at your desk, which is located in a comfortable concrete area of interest carved into the foundations of Fenway Park. Every year, you’ll obtain a efficiency assessment from our boss, the CrAIg Breslow bot. I hope this future excites you as a lot because it excites all of us right here within the Boston Pink Sox group.
Congratulations once more on one other profitable interview, and I want you good luck as you navigate the following six to eight months of the hiring course of.
Greatest regards,
FenwAI
No AI was used within the writing and enhancing of this text.
