back to article Oi, jobless yoofs: Upload a witty video bio if you wanna find work

London charity UK Youth has launched a new initiative to help get young folk into work – by encouraging them to post video CVs on Twitter. The charity has teamed up with social media app Videofyme to let jobseekers record a video of themselves to upload to the microblogging site alongside the hashtag #employme, which employers …

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  1. Hoe

    FAIL

    Talk about a long shot of desperation.

    1. Cliff

      Re: FAIL

      After all, what could possibly go wrong?

    2. Jim 59

      Re: FAIL

      Being unemployed is bad enough without this humiliation.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: FAIL @Jim 59

        But humiliation is a right of passage, just watch The Apprentice.

    3. LarsG
      Meh

      Re: FAIL noooo this is not a fail

      It is the ideal way to recruit eye candy for front of house work. You can sift through and reject the ugly ones.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The advantage-

    Employers can discriminate against your voice, appearance and general setting without even having to meet you. Next use the smell cam!

    Also this provides some awesome opportunities for you've been framed and various comedy shows.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Pointless

    If you have 85 CVs for one job and they all send in a video lasting 4 minutes no employer in the world is going to waste 5 hours and 40 minutes watching them. Plus you can't sift videos like you can paper, or satisfactorily screw them up and throw them in the bin and you have to watch cringe inducing acting. All courtesy of the social media "I'm special" generation.

    1. Bakunin
      Coat

      Re: Pointless

      Don't watch half of them, that way you weed out the naturally unlucky.

    2. vmistery

      Re: Pointless

      I'd read the CV first to see if it is even worth watching the video. The video would probably help me not waste my time getting some of the candidates in to interview. We get a lot of people who I don't really like the look of the CV for one reason or another but their skills match, would give some of them a second chance to impress. All in all it could work out very well.

    3. Don Jefe

      Re: Pointless

      Corporate HR don't even read CV's anymore, they just let the computer spit out the minimum number of candidates that meet fairness regulations (if applicable), they sure as hell aren't going to watch video CV's unless it is to mock it on one of the many shady HR industry sites where they hang out.

      Maybe they should put them on YouTube and use the comments section there for determining if a candidate is suitable. (That's a joke).

  4. Adam Christie-Grant

    YAY

    Jobs for pretty people middle managers fancy - What a wonderful idea.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    'London Charity UK Youth'

    Ugh...why don't they try some real charity work, like actually helping people, instead of these ineffectual, 'yoof style' initiatives that do fuck all. Did they come up with this idea while pissed out of their nuts in a Shoreditch cocktail bar on a Friday afternoon? Money well spent!!!

  6. Anomalous Cowshed

    Charity meets marketing hot air and loves it

    "With youth unemployment standing at around a million young people and up to 70 graduates chasing every job, it is more important than ever before to be heard above the crowd"

    Problem: lots of completely unskilled boys and girls with unrealistic expectations trying to find work in the real world after spending a 3-year holiday at a Mickey Mouse holiday campuniversity.

    Solution: retrain for a proper job which might be needed, such as nurse, computer programmer, cook, car mechanic, plumber, roofer, electrician, joiner, decoratorpost amusing videos on youtube and make a clown of yourself.

    And don't forget that we need donations in order to continue helping you. Your £20 per month (direct debit) will help us develop intuitive, creative and ground-breaking ideas to get British youth into the labour market.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      @Anomalous Cowshed

      I regret I have only one upvote to give you ....

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Meh

      Re: Charity meets marketing hot air and loves it

      You hit the nail on the head, train in something useful instead of wasting time on 'look at me, look at me' videos.

      I watched the video with my recruitment hat on and to be honest didn't see anything that would warm me to the guy. He could have done that video in a better way.

      1. Ted Treen
        Holmes

        Re: Charity meets marketing hot air and loves it

        So it's now "The next big thing"....

        "Stand out from the crowd by doing what everyone else is doing."

        I could almost believe there are Marketing types who would come out with that - and, frighteningly, believe it...

    3. Charles Manning
      Angel

      What planet is this?

      I've had probably 15-20 job interviews. Been turned down three times perhaps because the job requirements did not actually match the advertisement.

      Also been on the employing end too. Never had more than 5 or so applicants interviewing for a job and perhaps one in 20 was actually out of work. We've had openings unfilled for a few months at a time.

      Pretty much all the people worth anything have jobs.

  7. rich_a
    WTF?

    What a load of horse dung. It sounds like "UK Youth" have too much time & money on their hands to be able to sit around brainstorming.

  8. Colin Millar

    heard above the crowd?

    On Twitter and YouTube - really?

    They obviously never worked out that the YouTube name invokes the Scots meaning of tube..

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: heard above the crowd?

      Thankyou! I remember laughing at the name when it first appeared. Sadly, it seems to have wormed its way into my brain and I'd forgotten it was funny.

      YouTube, might as well be "YaFanny" :)

  9. Thomas 4
    IT Angle

    I think it's a splendid idea

    If you have enjoyed "Adam Johnson's Curriculum Vitae", why not check out some of these other videos:

    "Adam Johnson boning his girlfriend while dressed as Batman"

    "Adam Johnson out on the lash on the weekend"

    "Adam Johnson's annual EDL meet up"

    1. Cliff

      Re: I think it's a splendid idea

      Exactly this - then plunder his profiles for social media accounts and see what his 'friends' are into, then their friends.

  10. John H Woods Silver badge

    up to 70 applicants for each job ...

    ... does not imply that graduates outnumber jobs 70:1, although I'm guessing that's the shock factor they're going for. In the extreme case, with 70 suitable jobs, and 70 suitable applicants, each applicant applies for all 70 jobs, and there's no problem at all.

    If they weren't just attention seeking, a figure representing the ratio of graduates to appropriate opportunities would be a much more useful measurement of the problem. And if you provided figures broken down by specialism, that would be a seriously worthwhile thing to do. Unlike this, which is not just a pathetic waste of time and money but a retrograde step in that it can only serve to encourage various forms of discrimination.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: up to 70 applicants for each job ...

      And the "numbers of applicants per job" is probably also over-inflated by the JobCentre rules that you have to apply for N jobs per week or lose your benefit. So out of those 70 applicans the probably a significant proportion may be from people who are only apply to "show willing" until the sort of job that they are really interested in comes up at which point they apply seriously and are joined by ~70 other applicants many of whom may only be applying to keep their benefit.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: up to 70 applicants for each job ...

        @AC 12:11, you've met my brother then.

  11. Senior Ugli

    Is there not already a tumblr with some of the hilarious examples of submitted videos? if not then I might get on that

    Also, if they are jobless and probably quite skint. they are expected to have a decent phone and internet connection?

  12. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    whaaaa?

    the f....eh...yyyy....but...oh, yeah, wareve

  13. Senior Ugli

    also they got the spelling wrong

    Youth is Yooof

    and any words with an S at the end should be changed to a Z. Now wheres my check?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      By check do you mean cheque?

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Cheque that!

      2. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Chequemate.

      3. Senior Ugli

        No, microphone check

        1,2...1,2

  14. LinkOfHyrule
    Paris Hilton

    If I was an unemployed youth...

    Then I would take my lead from Eddie Hitler and just look at the camera and say the following;

    "Smooth, suave, sophisticated - you got it!"

    1. sabroni Silver badge

      Re: Pick me!

      I'm a love albatross!

  15. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    It's rare that I feel sorry for HR/recruitment types.

    In this case I genuinely do.

    This seems awful for all concerned.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: It's rare that I feel sorry for HR/recruitment types.

      You must be the first person in all of history to feel sorry for HR.

  16. Triggerfish

    Before the video even started

    I saw the shirt and thought "no fucking way".

  17. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    NO DELETE BUTTON.

    Don't do this, you cannot delete it, think how it will look if you do eventually have a career.

    I can't imagine a more stupid suggestion.

  18. tony2heads
    FAIL

    sounds like everyone should do an Aleksey Vayner

    and that worked out so well

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/100406109

    NOT

  19. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Just what the world needs. Another reason for self obsessed, self aggrandising fuckwits to post social media shite about themselves and 'how they feel'. I hope it's a roaring failure.

    1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
      Coat

      I feel bad about this!

  20. Mr Spock

    The job - just as it always has - will go to the girl with the biggest tits. Just shortens the application process.

  21. Mr Spock

    Learn from the original... Martha Lane Fox.

    How to make millions and get ahead :- talk too fast in a flat monotone for 4 minutes, while looking slightly off-camera. Also, brush your hair beforehand with a live electrode.

  22. Cliff

    That video, self selecting

    Clearly meant to be new media quirky, but telling me the biggest and best have rejected you is frankly a bit of a shortcut for me.

  23. Zmodem

    then you fart on facebook and get sacked

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