Posted on 11/12/2009 8:54:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Mistake Number One: Hiring a parasitic con artist democrat/liberal.
I disagree with #5. Asking a candidate to tell me about their resume does two things. First, it allows me to look for any inconsistencies with their resume and second, it allows me to assess their ability to speak clearly on a topic that they should be well acquainted.
11. Using the current job conditions to lowball the salary / benefits offered to the point that you’re going to lose your new hire in a couple years if he or she is any good, and then you’ll have to hire / train all over again. The only way that strategy works is if your new hire is incompetent and can’t find another job somewhere else.
ping for later
Just so the next time you put this stuff out for public consumption, you do it right....here's number one.
1. Hiring - or rather - not hiring based on the age of the candidate. The older the candidate looks or is, the less chance there is of being hired by any company for anything. I'd love to see a chart of the ages of hired candidates. My "guess" is, that by the time the candidate reaches 60 or better, the number hired for any given full-time professional position drops to less than 1%.
And don't give us any crap about "age discrimination" being prohibited. All employers have ways of finding out this information....and then discriminating based on age.
Go ahead...prove me wrong.
One they touched on but didn’t really summarize:
Having extremely specific expectations (i.e., not just management experience, but managing 5-7 employees in XXX environment in XXX way, etc) - not being happy with a general set of experience related to position, but paying a salary that is only sufficient for the general, not the expert.
Hiring? What’s that?
Yep...quick example.
Background check finds out you graduated from University of Maryland in 1965, bingo! They know how old you are (or at least a very well educated guess).
I love entry level jobs that require 10 years experience. They obviously mean entry level pay, not an entry level job.
Interesting article.
I once intereviewed for a job, then was asked to go back for another interview. Then they called me and asked for a third interview. I told them to stuff it. Any company that can’t make a decision after the second interview, is not one to work for. BTW, that company is out of business today.
I’ve seen a lot of that...
#8 really sticks out for me.
In my career, I can count on one hand the prospective employers at which I interviewed, was not hired, and heard a peep afterwards.
It’s especially frustrating when you are already working. You have to take time off, since nobody wants to interview off-hours or during lunch, and it probably means lying to your current employer to get that time off as everyone wants to interview right away.
Then you interview and don’t hear anything.
Background check finds out you graduated from University of Maryland in 1965, bingo! They know how old you are (or at least a very well educated guess).
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Cool! That would put me back in to my 30’s again!
Although, honestly, fake urine has saved my bacon.
That’s one reason I hate putting my current employer on my resume or the app. I don’t want to have them call my boss, him find out I’m searching, then NOT get a job for 7 months while my current boss knows...and being the first one let go if something goes wrong, since they know I’m looking elsewhere anyway.
How noble of you. You took a job when someone else actually qualified. Might as well faked any of the qualifications you listed.
The New Hiring Practice nowadays with 0bama administration is to hire youth (NAIVE & IDEALISTIC) and have them volunteer until they can redirect them into some BS 0bama serving effort.
Wise older Americans can go jump off a cliff basically.
That’s funny.
There was one job where I had to undergo drug testing. I’ve never had an interest in drugs, so it was no biggie and I thought that this company was serious about hiring quality people.
After I was hired, I found out I was the first one ever tested. I also discovered that everyone else, including the owner, were regularly toking, privately and (some) at work.
They must have hired me in spite of being clean!
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