From an HBR article called ‘AI Has Broken Hiring…,‘ Shraddha Sunil and Mudit Saraf write:
When the appearance of competence becomes easy to manufacture, organizations that continue to rely on résumés and traditional first screens will increasingly select for people who are best at performing the hiring process, not necessarily the job itself.
A lot of talk about how people are performing, around me these days. Online, offline: people are performing. Right now I am in a place where to the left, behind me, and downstairs I can hear snippets of conversations that seem like business ones but wow, the smiles are plastered on and there is overenthusiastic ‘passion’. I am bored listening. I try to sequester myself in my little bubble of quiet, but forgot the noise cancellation headphones. No, wait. Battery ran out yesterday. That’s right. That place was a different kind of loud, mostly gamers and some speakerphone calls. It’s okay. I am used to things being like that there, I can adjust, I can adapt. In fact, wit most things, I can. But this performing thing. For hiring, and for hiring people who are pretending, I gotta say, I think it’s just getting to be… too much.
The quiet is good but the quiet alone for too long is unstimulating. So there has to be a balance. Can there be a balance where performing doesn’t happen? I’m asking, seriously. Is there a place to be where you can relax, chill, converse freely, and not worry about how it’s sounding to other people or if you’ll be quoted out of context or someone will get offended and you will never see this group of people again? Because you missed a cue. You weren’t performing. You were just being you, being real.
I wonder.