I Don’t Consent to Having this Interview Recorded (and You Shouldn’t Either!)

Virtual meetings and their respective recordings have been around for about a decade, but now there is a notable uptick in recruiters requesting to record one-way and two-way interviews. Why the change? In two letters: AI.

Never, EVER Allow Your Job Interview to Be Recorded

The main reason to opt out of recording is that you do not know how your intellectual property (IP) is going to used, how it will be shared, where it will be stored, nor who will have access to it. In all cases, you permanently forfeit your rights to your words and image — they are now the exclusive property of the recruiter, the 3P service provider, and/or the potential employer.

Consider this all-too-common scenario:

Hiring manager wants to hire his cousin, Vinny, as his new Customer Service Manager. Here’s the problem: Vinny isn’t qualified. Hiring Manager contacts a staffing firm, provides screening questions, and requests video recordings of all the top applicants — even if they’re out of his price range. He snips the best answers and insights from a dozen or so highly-qualified experts, and then wraps them into a script for cousin Vinny. Vinny watches the interviews, preps his answers, records his…