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A company in Chengdu, China has been praised for asking both job
applicants and recruiters to wear masks in order to avoid discrimination
based on looks.
Chengdu Ant Logistics recently made news headlines after a video showing
its recruitment process went viral on Chinese social media. Shot by one
of the interviewees, the short clip shows several masked people waiting
to be interviewed by a recruiter, who was reportedly also masked. The
company has since put out a statement on the matter, claiming that the
video was shot at its recent biannual recruitment fair and that the
masked were introduced to eliminate bias based on looks.
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The Chinese logistics company said that the bizarre recruitment method
was implemented to reduce the job candidates’ stress levels and also to
emphasize the fact that it values people’s individual abilities over
their appearance.
The video doing the rounds on Chinese social media got generally
positive feedback from millions of people, many of whom said that they
wouldn’t mind wearing a mask when applying for a new job.
“As a person with social phobia, I would really enjoy such a job
interview,” one person wrote on Douyu.
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“This is equality, good looks should not count,” another person added.
However, there were those who expressed doubts about the authenticity of
the explanation offered by the company. While the footage was indeed
shot by an actual job applicant, the masks were allegedly issued to
protect people’s identities because the interviews were live-streamed.
Some claim that after the video went viral, Chengdu Ant Logistics simply
turned the interview into a publicity stunt.
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