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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."
I suppose that's what you have to do to hire people that don't even know how to fill out an application.
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.
Never mind, since I'm not the target audience, anyway.
If you're over 20, not hot, not female, don't bother applying.
I'm not sure how well the laws re: attractiveness are enforced, if at all. How else can businesses like Hooters maintain the expected buxom quality of their staff?
Complaints about customer service-oriented businesses hiring physically attractive people, especially young females, are kinda unique to the West, while McD's is a global company. Here in Asia, having cute and polite female staff is just assumed pretty much everywhere. There's a night-and-day difference in the customer experience at a Japanese McDonald's and a US one. Same for all the Asian airlines. That PC crap about keeping women past their expiration date doesn't apply here.
Maybe APK can get a real job now.
There's a night-and-day difference in the customer experience at a Japanese McDonald's and a US one.
Maybe but your porn sucks with all the blurry pixels over the genitals. You priorities are all wrong.
lucm, indeed.
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.
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.
MOOOOOOOOOO! You forgot to say MOOOOOOOOOO!
I've been reading slashdot.org since you were 10. You've only begun to not give a fuck.
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.
Couldn't this turn into a trivial discrimination lawsuit against McDonalds if they were doing it in USA?
In what way is this illegal discrimination? He said they are looking for "bubbly personalities". In America, calm boring non-bubbly people are not a protected class, so it is legal to discriminate against them.
Just from a few minutes of speech ...
They only get 10 seconds and are looking for expression of "bubbly personality," not a discussion of the state of political discourse in Australia (which, I grant, could be summed up in a dire 10 seconds). I would expect more dancing fool than verbal analysis... but then I am way outside the target demographic. The whole thing is like an uncontrolled version of Virgin Australia looking for "whacky zany" when interviewing prospective cabin crew.
Patent litigation: A doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction... in which everyone seems willing to push the button