Posted on 04/12/2019 12:42:53 PM PDT by max americana
I know we should be filtering idiots in our interview process but I'm sure Freepers who conduct interviews and the applicant keep saying "It's like, you know.." at least 10 times in 2 minutes..
we're not at the beach dude.
so we told our headhunter to specifically tell the applicants if they ever saw the 2 words "it's like", they're out the door. Anyone think it's correct?
PS in addition, another pet peeve is why would anyone go to a professional interview for a production manager in jeans? Where do these people come from? They dont teach interview manners anymore dont they? And some are Ivy league grads for crying out loud..
I had a d... come interview looking like a hippy with a pro dem button on his shirt.
At an investment bank...
This was maybe 2003
I only want to here the word “like” if you are expressing fondness or making a comparison.
AOC like for sure.
As an alternative, you can utter “uh” after every phrase.
Um for a bit of variety.
I’d at least wear a suit.
Noamsayin’, dog?
Hey! I agree with that like, totally!
Valley girl
She’s a valley girl
Valley girl
She’s a valley girl
Okay, fine
Fer sure
Fer sure
I have 3 nieces who talk like valley girls. One seems to have changed as she has become an attorney. I suspect the other two will be under employed the rest of their lives.
(I have to restrain myself from telling lawyer jokes.)
“PS in addition, another pet peeve is why would anyone go to a professional interview for a production manager in jeans?”
Even if you are applying for a job where jeans are acceptable (i.e. in a professional position in the agriculture industry), DO NOT wear those jeans that look like they are grungy. A pair of dark, starched, and creased jeans are the way to go.
blue jeans are perfectly acceptable for production engineers and managers. I wore blue jeans to work for five years when I was a deputy product manager.
With some of these people it would take a shock collar to break them. They don’t think that appearance or manners or diction should matter.
I used to travel from coast to coast to client sites in my job. I found that a good rule of thumb was, the farther east I was going, the more ties I packed. On the west coast a tie can look downright pretentious.
Get a partner and both take turns speaking on whatever topic.
Every time one of those verbal placeholders like, like, you know, etc gets used, do 10 pushups or situps or whatever.
Keep doing this until you can go 5 minutes without transgressing. Then the habit is broken.
It is amazing how much smarter people will assume a person is if that person doesn’t verbal placeholder all over their talky talk.
Unemployment is at record low levels. Thank God and President Trump.
The downside to that is that all the good competent people are already working.
And Millennials don’t know (Obama).
Who would teach that? If that's not taught in the home, there's no way these folks are going to learn it.
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