"Job Bolt's pitch is that resumes and CVs are full of fibs that existing HR systems can't detect, so HR people can save time by screening candidates with AI interviews that allow employers to write a set of questions for a human-like avatar to ask during a session that feels a lot like a one-to-one Zoom call. Once the interview ends, Job Bolt uses AI to summarize the candidate's responses so human HR folks can decide who gets a meeting with a real person."
"I found the experience disconcerting, mainly because the avatar's non-verbal behavior is twitchy, repetitive, and comes from way down deep in the uncanny valley - the place where not-real-enough simulations come off as inhuman and creepy attempts at authenticity. In the video above, the avatar digests an answer for six seconds without responding. During the interview I took, it processed things a little quicker but its responses were banal."
"Most opened by referring to my previous answer by saying "Thank you for sharing" or referred to an answer by opening "It sounds like..." before offering a decent summary of a previous answer and trying to bridge to the next question. The result just didn't feel in any way conversational because the avatar doesn't offer a real-time reaction to answers."
Job Bolt provides AI-driven interviews where employers script questions for a human-like avatar that conducts sessions resembling one-to-one Zoom calls. The system aims to detect resume exaggerations and automatically summarizes candidate responses for human review. Job Bolt created a fictional editor role and prepared targeted questions; the resulting interview felt disconcerting because the avatar's non-verbal behavior was twitchy, repetitive, and situated deep in the uncanny valley. The avatar produced delayed, often banal replies that opened with phrases like "Thank you for sharing" or "It sounds like..." and failed to show real-time listening cues such as nodding or facial reactions.
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