Anon - not logged in Report This Comment Date: January 08, 2025 12:08AM
This is actually plausible, from what someone told me. He didn't get a job
after a
-two hour- phone conversation with a man in HR who decided he
"Wasn't a good fit for the company", even though the one who would be
his next up was happy to employ him. Someone needs to come up with a workable
solution to what is, in fact, a problem.
pulse Report This Comment Date: January 08, 2025 05:58AM
I recently hired a few people. Went through dozens of candidates and hours of
interviews (total, not each person). One guy was definitely getting a role. CV
matched nicely, seemed friendly. Then he said one single thing that made me say
"nope".
I can't remember what it was, but it can be very simple. It doesn't matter who
else is happy with them or would be working with them, the hiring managers and
HR also have a job to do and that's to ensure the person will be a fit for the
company, and will survive long term, won't get jack of it and leave in a
week/month/year etc.
It's basic costs of time and money. It costs around $100K to hire, onboard and
train a new hire even if they have relevant experience; and takes days, weeks or
months of support from other staff to train them and get them up to speed, help
and answer questions etc. As part of the interview questions you'll be asked
things around future dreams, goals etc.. if you say "I want to buy a
caravan and travel around the country in a few years time" do you think
you're getting the job, just so the process has to start again?
My guess is during the "2h interview" your friend "fucked
up".
woberto Report This Comment Date: January 08, 2025 07:01AM
I hear ya pulse. I would hate to hire for tech roles or admin' roles.
I fortunately have only and still only hire tradespeople.
They are expected to hit the ground running.
Unless for example they are a Heidelberg guy and I need them to run my
Komori.
Or they have never run a big KBA or a Bobst or whatever.
In those instances, we get an engineer from the manufacturer to train them for a
few days.
After that, you better hit your KPI's buster!
I have not had to hire an apprentice for decades now (sign of the times for my
industry) but I would probably end up assaulting any current teenager if I had
to interview one so it's just as well.
pulse Report This Comment Date: January 08, 2025 09:35AM
There's some pretty crazy shit out there in job world. One guy with 18 months
experience asked for $350K.
Another claimed to be an expert in a bunch of tech and couldn't answer a single
question on anything to do with it. I guess couldn't even type fast enough for
ChatGPT to answer it for him.
Or the ones who have "20 years experience" but if you dig down you
find they run other people's code and have literally done the same task 20 times
a day for 20 years.
My favourite ever was a contractor who used to work for us and was applying for
a role and claimed a heap of work for projects. Projects that... I did.
We don't expect ground-running-hitting, we're happy to put the time and money
into developing people. We have had 1 single resignation from my team of 20
people in 10 years. The team is well looked after and everyone is friendly. But
with that, we expect a lot of effort from the team too. So if you're just going
to leave, given the amount it costs and the effort it takes, then the answer is
just no.
Don't forget the goats.
Anon - not logged in Report This Comment Date: January 08, 2025 11:19PM
The best story I heard was someone applying for a fitting/machining job. Could
do internal grinding? That's the tube a shaft fits into, tolerances for
finished product can be from 3 10 thousandths of an inch downwards. When
measuring you're expected to know what a micron is. He said: "I can do
grinding indoors and outdoors". He meant hand held angle grinding.
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Have a nice day pulse.
