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McDonald's Is Now Accepting Snapchats As Job Applications (thenextweb.com)
McDonald's Australian subsidiary is now accepting job applications via Snapchat. Specifically, McDonald's wants potential candidates to send the company a 10-second video using a filter that shows them wearing a McDonald's uniform. Matthew Hughes reports via The Next Web: The job applications, which McDonalds calls "Snaplications" (I vomited a little), will be the first step in the recruitment process. The company will then review the submissions, pick out the favorites, and send digital applications to those selected. Speaking to Australian news website news.com.au, McDonald's Australia COO Shaun Ruming said the company is looking for applicants with a "bubbly personality." He also added that he'd "learned a lot about Snapchat recently from my 14-year-old daughter."
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His 14 year old daughter learned a lot from SnapChat. >:)
I admire your persistence.
lucm, indeed.
porn
I suppose that's what you have to do to hire people that don't even know how to fill out an application.
Couldn't this turn into a trivial discrimination lawsuit against McDonalds if they were doing it in USA?
Vetting candidates based on a short video is essentially picking based on appearance, since that is the only information the medium can convey.
I thought there were strong anti-discrimination laws preventing companies from hiring based on factors related to and including appearance: age, skin color, attractiveness, height, race, etc...
When it's very clear we are being told how we should view news articles with a pre-judgement inserted into the article heading.
(I vomited a little)
It may be cheesy, but not puke worthy. We are talking about the employee application process not their food.
to the OP: Why not let the public discuss and decide what they will without injecting your own immature opinions before they have had a chance to RTFA?
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
hmm McDs will probably go to a kiosk robotic assembly line. its all the same to me.
Never mind, since I'm not the target audience, anyway.
Sounds like a sneaky way to filter based on race and appearance.
He also added that he'd "learned a lot about Snapchat recently from my 14-year-old daughter
I wonder if his daughter taught him that snapchat is a closed and proprietary method of communication that is completely outside the control of either the sender or the receiver, and because of that is not even available on many kinds of computing platforms that applicants may be using. As opposed to open standards which work on any semi-modern device so would not lock out people not owning the brands "blessed" by the company that makes snapchat.
Hopefully his daughter teaches him that.
Those applicants with "bubbly personality" are boys.
If you're over 20, not hot, not female, don't bother applying.
Wow. What an honor it must be in Australia to win the ability to apply to MickyD for a job.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Maybe APK can get a real job now.
This is not that different to the usual hiring process where you screen resumes and then do personal screening, ie interviews.
In this case it is the other way around. Of course a 10 second video isn't the same as a personal interview, but I wouldn't be surprised if 10 seconds is all a Manager needs to decide whether they want to hire you or not.
I rarely ever buy McDonalds but I applaud them for trying something new that appeals generally to younger people, who they seem to hire most.
If it works, great, if it doesn't, that's ok too.
Wouldn't this greatly bias the process (age, gender, ethnicity)? If this were happening in tech, we'd scream bloody murder. I'm sure Australia has different laws than the US.
They can call it casting. Where employees entertain and help out the guests. At least that's how Disney gets away with it in their theme parks.
I have to staff exhibit booths a few times a year. I absolutely hate that applicants treat it as a modeling job and send me their photos. My wife hates it too :-) .
I ask that they be capable of standing for 8 hours per day for three days straight, and that they be well dressed, well groomed, and personable. I will always hire the smart ones (you'd be surprised how many folks with a Masters or Ph.D. are looking for weekend work), and they rarely are the model folks.
I started putting "NO PHOTOS" in my ads a while back. I am thinking of asking folks to use a first initial and not indicate their gender, just to see what happens.
Bruce Perens.
Next!
I see this as going down the path of subjecting applicants to public humiliation to apply for menial jobs.
This is what post-labor world looks like.
Vetting candidates based on a short video is essentially picking based on appearance
While it could be, there are a ton of things you can pick up quickly from a short video that go beyond appearance.
Just from a few minutes of speech you can easily tell if someone is reasonably intelligent, you could tell if they had the kind of personality that would let them work a register, you could tel generally how seriously they took work by what they chose to wear for the video.
I have to think you could also treat it as a rough drug test because some people are just really spacey when they are talking.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Will be using an okaycupid clone. Swipe left for candidates you dislike, swipe right to hire. The new motto? "U dserv a brak 2day".
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
I think she's fucking Ben Gozzi on the side. Those two are always in the news together.
He's got my vote.
Apps 2020!
MOOOOOOOOOO! You forgot to say MOOOOOOOOOO!
Generate McDonalds job application
Photograph the application
Upload the photograph of the application to Snapchat
Apply the McDonalds uniform filter to the photographed application
Submit.
So basically this filters for people that already own a McD uniform and thus are probably on file and don't need the company to pay for one, or people that someone who owns a uniform knows and thinks should work at McD.
don't write books by text, don't share screen shots by post, don't use your stapler to hammer nails. You can do all of those things but why would you? Technology exists for a reason. A scythe was designed to cut down grass in large amounts using it to cut down a single or tens of blades at once is moronic. Using Snapchat as a chatting protocol is already bad. It's a terrible chat program unless you're talking to a mistress, using it for job applications is even worse. Nothing about Snapchat makes it easier to apply for a job.
Just another second banana
If the snaplicant hasn't been hired yet, how would they have a McDonald's uniform in which to perform the snaplication?
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have backups to corrupt.
They get a physical look at prospective applicants before they look at their resume. Well played, McDonalds. No ugly front-end people.
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I'm reasonably sure H1B is not an Australian thing. But anyway.
And maybe we'll toss you a minimum wage menial job for your humiliation.
I had a dream, bright and carefree, but now there's doubt and gravity
I'll go out on a limb and guess that very few people want to see what they look like wearing a fast food chain's uniform. Not unless McD's change their uniform to be some kind of sexy Nazi-themed PVC outfit for the duration of the promotion.
Nope, those 3 fields shoud be:
- Name
- Born gender
- Work experience
Just another metric in dumbing it down to the lowest common denominator.
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The part of the article after the /. summary ends is telling.
"The whole thing feels like a gimmick – an awkward, insincere, clumsy gimmick at that."
Everybody knows most job applications just get thrown in the trash anyway. McD's has automated this by using a service that automatically throws away applications after somebody views them once.
I'm reasonably sure H1B is not an Australian thing. But anyway.
In Australia its called a Visa Subclass 457 or just "457" for short.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
I just wonder how long it is until people start submitting "Ding fries are done" videos.
Time to offend someone
"could of been" is NEVER correct
There are a few people I have to go film and then apply that filter to before our noon meeting.
Guess illiteracy is a bonus for those high level jobs at McDonald's now. No wonder they keep fucking up my orders. Bloody dumbest thing I've ever seen.
And millenials are complaining they cant find jobs...
I guess that's one way to get around a system that no longer is able to teach kids effective grammar. They can just send a video and talk about themselves.
So they want a bunch of fake shiny-happies who 'look good' in a Mickey-Dees uniform. Fuck it, just have
robots working the front, much less creepy that way.
McDonald's Australia COO Shaun Ruming said the company is looking for applicants with a "bubbly personality." He also added that he'd "learned a lot about Snapchat recently from my 14-year-old daughter"####
I hope this retard never comes anywhere near my
place of employment.
"oooh, I heard about Snapchat from my teenybopper
daughter! Sounds Kewl!!!!!11!!1one. Lets use this to discr^Whire our new employees!!!111!!1x = 100 / 100!!1"
Bruce is making fun of you in a way you can't understand. You have to be able to conjugate Latin verbs.