To think 'interviews' where you have to send in a video are ageist

This!

Also, the making of the video is part of the interview. If someone was incapable of making a video then they probably wouldn’t be able to perform the role!

It's not an interview, it's part of an application usually alongside a CV. The interview is a separate part of the process.

I'm not defending their use. I think it's a really fake situation, you dont really learn anything and you're putting unnecessary angst on to candidates. But, it's not discrimination.

I would hate the fuck out of this.
Interviews are two way. You are also interviewing your employer to see if they are a good fit for you.

Not only did you say it in your OP you have literally just repeated it! You're still claiming young people are better at it than older people. Such an awful and misguided attitude.

If an organisation is using that kind of software then you wouldn't want to work for them! I've led processes with video applications - I watch them all and then someone else in the team watches them all to ensure we have two brains and two opinions on it. I wouldn't dream of using software.

I’m 54, I wouldn’t know how to do this or even what it would be used for, and I think I would simply not apply because it sounds like something that could easily be used against you.

I would hate that

I would disagree with you here.

I am only 60 but I would not bother to apply if this was part of the recruitment process. Also, speaking as someone who is currently considering a move, I am very much aware of current hiring practices having been through a few rounds of interviews with different companies.

Having an interview via Teams is perfectly normal, recording a video response to a set of questions is not. At least, at my level and the field that I work in

"If they can't manage a simple video, then could they manage a spreadsheet, a database?"

I don't follow where the connection is? I've done rather more than that over the last almost forty years and now manage teams of people who do rather more than that. That doesn't stop me from thinking that companies that use recruitment techniques like this are companies that I probably wouldn't want to work for anyway.

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They should be conducting adverse impact analysis on all selection methods. But should and do are very different.

Exactly!

I also find them ablist, speaking as someone with a speech disorder who failed a multi-part virtual interview at the compulsory video stage.

Going on my experience as a person with disabilities, I wouldn't be surprised if they were designed to weed out all the undesirable groups...

Isn't it a slight possibility that by doing this, the employer is able to then decide not to interview anybody who is visibly older - or who is black/brown/dual heritage/has a different accent, not presenting as their birth sex, has a visible disability or facial/limb difference - and all from 'just' asking for a video?

A video prerequisite enables them to discriminate against multiple Protected Characteristics without ever putting anything on paper that would evidence breaking of Employment and Equalities Law.

My biggest technological issue would be a stand to hold my phonec while taking a video.

That said, I'd be rejecting an interview if that was the first stage. Sounds horrific - and, yes, I most definitely can handle spreadsheets and databases.

Well, I'm past retirement age so not likely to be interviewing for any more jobs but I am quite capable of making videos of myself. I have made videos explaining how to do all sorts of technical tasks and even of myself cycling down a hill while singing a song! That was for inclusion in a musical project devised, written, rehearsed, recorded and created in lockdown. I was heavily involved in the technical side and we won an award! So, just because we are older does not mean we are incapable.

Those of us getting into our late 60s were the ones who invented half of this bloody technology, if course we can use it (with one hand tied behind our backs).

I am in my 50s and it’s not about not being able
to cope, it’s about being good at it and getting selected to next stage which is presumably f2f

I’m in my mid 70s. I find it ageist that you think I might not be able to cope with this.

I agree it’s probably ageist as the TikTok generation is much more used to filming themselves a speaking to camera than my generation. I recruit people as a manager in my workplace and we do face to face still.

It’s not ageist for someone to be better at a skill than you OP. If you need to improve on this then practice. It’s also simplistic to imagine every young person takes videos of themselves.

You are ageist to assume that it skews things in favour of the youth because of technology like Snapchat. Not all young people post videos and photos of themselves online and plenty of older people are used to giving speeches or working with technology like phones and webcams in order to edit a video.

They are only looking for social media trends and the latest cool backing track playing in the background if you’re going for a specific social media manager posting.

I have all the technical skills to do this and yet I would never even try. I cannot bring myself to speak aloud to Alexa. She sits, dusty and forlorn, while I type my requests into Google.

I'd hate to do them. Some give you questions on the spot and give you 30 seconds to answer I to a camera, no retakes (some do allow retakes). Awful for anyone with processing or working memory issues.