I do understand there are job applicants who don't want to travel and/or don't want to do an in-person interview. But <shrug>. I also do think that (mostly) post-COVID I mostly want to meet with a candidate in person.
I think the point is that people have different preferences: those didn’t matter before COVID but they do matter now.
There are at least a couple of trade offs here.
1. Companies compete for applicants, and applicants - even good applicants - will often prefer companies with less arduous hiring processes except where they specifically want to work at that company.
2. Filtering out applicants who don’t want, or for whom it will be impractical, to attend in person interviews will meaning losing out on good applicants, but also reduces the applicant pool (e.g., to a geographic region).
I could see a world where we’re slowly forced in this direction though simply because I can see that even the kind of dynamic reasoning interview recommended in TFA will become gameable by AI before too much more time passes.
I'm not sure putting the onus on COVID is quite right. There are certainly remote jobs today for a variety of reasons. But as someone who has been on hiring committees, I'd like to meet someone in person.
They can certainly refuse to travel but unless they're someone exceptional, my attitude would probably be that there are plenty of fish in in the sea.
There are at least a couple of trade offs here.
1. Companies compete for applicants, and applicants - even good applicants - will often prefer companies with less arduous hiring processes except where they specifically want to work at that company.
2. Filtering out applicants who don’t want, or for whom it will be impractical, to attend in person interviews will meaning losing out on good applicants, but also reduces the applicant pool (e.g., to a geographic region).
I could see a world where we’re slowly forced in this direction though simply because I can see that even the kind of dynamic reasoning interview recommended in TFA will become gameable by AI before too much more time passes.