Saturday, March 02, 2013
Twitter Interviews Are Now a Thing, Or Another Reason Life Is Meaningless
gizmodo.com: If you don't want to read a piece about the horrid state of our society, please go no further. Apparently companies are throwing traditional in-person interviews out the window in favor of Twitterviews: Twitter. Interviews.
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I disagree with this article's categorical dismissal of twitter as a tool to get to know someone in an interview type setting. If you're trying to get to know someone, then why not use every possible means? I don't think twitter should be the sole interview technique used, but a partial interview via twitter could give the interviewer an insight into the public persona and care that a subject puts into their work because every statement made on twitter must be short, concise, and effective. Limiting a response in that way can increase its power if done correctly. The example used in this article is a bad example- let's see a good example. Then I think it might make more sense.
I completely agree with the attitude this article shares. I am pretty against social media in general, I think our world is depending much too heavily on it as it is. We already spend huge amounts of time on social media cites, time that could be spent having face to face interactions and building genuine relationships, and i think adding interviews to the already large number of types of exchanges that happen online is a huge step in the wrong direction. We communicate just as much if not more with our facial and body language, not to mention tone of voice, than with our actual words, that communication online just doesnt cut it. If a company I was interested in working for told me my interview would take place over twitter, i would turn in the opposite direction.
If it is just impossible to interview in person I do think talking via web cam is a pretty reasonable alternative.
Our world is changing faster than we know it. Either we can hop on board with it or we can get left behind. Social media is everything to society now and ofcourse twitter will never be more personal or greater than an actual interview but its quick, simple and easy, everything an american wants now-a-days. Not to mention it is immediately viewed by the public no filming, editing, and printing necessary.
What are people thinking? There are so many ways to misrepresent yourself over the internet, why would would a corporation think it would be a good idea to hire someone that they can't actually meet? I'm imagining some sort of situation where a child poses as an adult, does the interview, manages to get the job, and then the company gets sued for child labor. (Of course that's an extreme situation and not very probable, but I have friends who could have pulled that off in middle school had "twinterviews" been a thing.) I understand that no one likes to go through the interviewing process, but there's a reason why it exists. Interviews are a good way of getting to know who is being hired and who is hiring, and if those characteristics are a good fit. the internet can create fake relationships that would be perfect for a working environment, but in real life where people are three dimensional and aren't just a text box, those relationships can be very very different. I agree with Brian that twitter can be a good way to get to know someone, but it's a good way to get to know someone in a SOCIAL setting. It's called social media for a reason. Why can't we keep the professional, professional?
I'm gonna have to side with April and Mariah here, this seems like an incredibly inappropriate way to go about finding a quality employee. And actually makes me sick to my stomach to know that this is or may be a real thing that's happening... Now I have my LinkedIn account, that also gives access to my twitter and I've been contacted about and applied for jobs thru LinkedIn but never would I complete an interview via twitter like that.
I am not a fan of twitter for anything else other than simple publicity/to get a short message out to people who actually have twitters. Other than that I do NOT understand twitter. "twitter-views" are not a thing because these are not real interviews!!! Who knows who is on the other end of the conversation. also isn't twitter just a bunch of status postings? how does that become an interview? God help the world that encourages this crap.
As much as I like that whatever companies are interviewing over twitter are at least trying to keep up with new technology, I really don't see a twitter interview being useful at all.I can see how looking at someone's twitter account could be useful, but a twitter interview feels like those really short sentences you had to write when applying to CMU. It is way too easy for someone to misrepresent themselves over the internet, even if they don't mean to, just because of the medium. I also don't think that the character limit on twitter would be particularly useful in terms of an interview. I would however have liked to have actual examples of what companies are using twitter interviews, instead of the dismissive joke example the article gave.
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