McDonald's customers aren't lovin' the fact the price of their favourite breakfast treat has gone up by 25 cents 
 
 GETTING your first job at Macca’s is a snap. 
 
 The fast-food giant has teamed up with Snapchat to launch a McDonald’s-themed filter for the photo messaging app, with jobseekers invited to try on the uniform and send a 10-second video application. 
 
 Launching on today, the “Snaplications” campaign is being billed as a first for both companies. Once the application is reviewed, McDonald’s will send users back to the digital careers hub where they can download an application form. 
 
 McDonald’s employs about 106,000 Australians, with 65 per cent under the age of 18. In Australia, Snapchat has more than four million daily users, 82 per cent of whom are young people. 
 
 “I’ve learnt a lot about Snapchat recently from my 14-year-old daughter,” said Shaun Ruming, chief operating officer of McDonald’s Australia. 
 
 “We think this is actually a world first. Snaplications is basically a Snapchat ‘lens’ that gives users the ability to apply for a job — or at least commence that process — by sending a 10-second snap. 
 
 “We’re the largest employer of youth in the country, so we’re trying to look for new and innovative ways to recruit crew people.” 
 
 Mr Ruming said while the 10-second video wouldn’t replace the traditional hiring process, it would form part of the application. “It certainly won’t replace a thorough face-to-face interview, but we’ll obviously take it into account,” he said. 
 
 “We’re looking for that positivity, bubbly personality, someone we think would be good in a customer service role. Based on what my daughter sends to her friends, you do get a bit of a glimpse [from a 10-second video].” 
 
 Mr Ruming said McDonald’s and Snapchat “reached out to each other at a similar time”, after the fast-food chain noticed how many of its crew were using the app. 
 
 “Snapchat are quite interested to see what the result will be,” he said. “Obviously they’re driven by trying to encourage users onto their platform. We presume when someone applies via Snapchat, when their friends ask them how they got the job, they’ll talk about it.” 
 
 McDonald’s doesn’t have any firm targets for the experimental campaign. “When we first started talking about it that was one of my questions — how much are we trying to drive recruitment?,” he said. 
 
 “We’ve been really fortunate with the brand campaign last year, so we’re not in desperate need for hiring, we’re just trying to look for new and innovative ways to complement our existing hiring process.” 
 
 And the firm doesn’t yet have any plans for other platforms such as Facebook, like pizza chain Domino’s which last month announced it was launching a Facebook Messenger bot to interact with customers. 
 
 “We just wanted to start with Snapchat and see what reaction we get,” Mr Ruming said. 
 
 The Snaplications filter will be ‘live’ to all Snapchat users on Friday, after which jobseekers will be able to access it by following a link on the McDonald’s website which will take them back to the app. 
 
 McDonald’s did not disclose how much it paid for the campaign. Snapchat has been tipped as the new favoured platform among advertisers, with its ads, including sponsored filters, forecast to bring in more than $4 billion ($US3 billion) in annual revenue by 2019. 
 
 Nevertheless, shares in Snap Inc have had a rocky ride since the company debuted on the New York Stock Exchange last month, closing at $US20.70 on Wednesday — nearly 30 per cent below their all-time high of $US28.84 on March 3. The company currently has a market capitalisation of $US24 billion ($32 billion). 
 
 Snapchat, which only began monetising its platform in 2015, generated $US404.5 million ($536.6 million) in revenue in 2016, with a net loss of $US514.6 million ($682.6). While expected this early on, some analysts have raised concerns about the rate of losses. 
 
 This week, former employee Anthony Pompliano claimed Snapchat’s valuation was “built on a house of cards”, in a lawsuit alleging the company misrepresented various metrics including user numbers. Snapchat said the claims were the ramblings of a “disgruntled former employee”. 
 
 frank.chung@news.com.au 

 McDonald’s is using a new, social method for attracting employees. 
 
 The global fast-food titan has started a new “Snaplications” campaign in Australia that uses Snap’s Snapchat (SNAP) app to attract applicants. According to Australian news site News.com.au, which earlier reported on the feature, applicants send a 10-second video to McDonald’s , which functions as a preliminary application. McDonald’s (MCD) then reviews the video and sends the person a link to the company’s careers page, where he or she can fill out an application form. 
 
 “We think this is actually a world first. Snaplications is basically a Snapchat ‘lens’ that gives users the ability to apply for a job —or at least commence that process—by sending a 10-second snap,” McDonald’s Australia chief operating officer Shaun Ruming told the Australian outlet. 
 
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 The Snapchat lens also lets applicants place virtual hats and nametags on their heads and chests to digitally see what it might look like to be one of the company’s 106,000 Australian employees. 
 
 With more than 160 million active users around the world, Snapchat has become one of the more popular apps for users to share photos and videos with others. Snap, which went public last month and has yet to generate a profit, has been eyeing ways to boost the company’s advertising appeal with big brands. Part of that effort has centered on attracting companies to the service’s relatively young audience. 
 
 Since McDonald’s still sends applicants to a traditional application form, the Snapchat integration is little more than a different take on a branding campaign aimed at finding younger employees. Ruming, in fact, said that McDonald’s is looking for “new and innovative ways” to find employees and decided to start with Snap’s social app. McDonald’s hasn’t disclosed how much it paid for the Snaplications campaign and whether a similar application process might come to other countries around the world. 
 
 For those interested in landing a McDonald’s gig through Snapchat, those ten seconds need to count. 
 
 “We’re looking for that positivity, bubbly personality, someone we think would be good in a customer service role,” Ruming said of the 10-second snap. 

 Want to work at McDonald's? If you're a tech savvy smartphone user, applying just got a whole lot easier. 
 
 Potential employees can now digitally try on the McDonald's uniform in a Snapchat filter while applying to the fast food chain. 
 
 The golden arches chain in Australia has partnered with the wildly popular app to allow new recruits to make a 10-second video clip to procure a job application, according to the Chicago Tribune. 
 
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 The “Snaplication” can then be submitted to the McDonald’s Snapchat account. The pictures or videos will only be available for 10 seconds before they vanish, so it's important to make a good impression fast. 
 
 From there, McDonald’s-- or Macca’s as Australians call it-- will then send back a direct link to the application and digital careers page. 
 
 "For most young people who apply for a role with Macca's, this is their first entry into the workforce. As such, their personality, positive attitude and enthusiasm are characteristics that are focused on and traits that this tech innovation captures in a simple, yet effective manner," McDonald's said in a statement. 
 
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 McDonald’s Down Under calls itself the biggest employer of millennials in the country. The company says the partnership with Snapchat is an important way to reach out to the thousands of young people who are avid Snapchat users. 
 
 The chain has not confirmed whether it plans to roll out a similar platform in the U.S.
– Hoping to don a McDonald's uniform? Look no further than Snapchat. In an apparent "world first," McDonald's Australia says it has teamed up with Snapchat to let users apply for a job using the video app, reports News.com.au. Interested parties need only send the company a 10-second video using a special filter that lets them try on a McDonald's name tag or uniform hat, per Fortune. Once a video has been viewed, users will be directed to an application form on the McDonald's website. Chosen candidates will then be selected for face-to-face interviews. Employing more than 65,000 people under 18, McDonald's Australia is "the largest employer of youth in the country, so we're trying to look for new and innovative ways to recruit crew people," the chief operating officer says of the so-called "Snaplications." He says the fast-food giant is especially interested in those with a "bubbly personality." In a statement obtained by Fox News, McDonald's adds "personality, positive attitude and enthusiasm are … traits that [Snapchat] captures in a simple, yet effective manner." There's no word on whether McDonald's plans to use similar application methods outside Australia.