Posted on 01/12/2023 5:15:00 AM PST by EBH
In late 2022, Jessica found herself in a predicament that will sound familiar to many job seekers: slogging through an extended interview process with seemingly no end in sight.
She was up for a job as a fundraiser at a major social services organization in New York. Across the span of two months, she took part in six separate interviews with nine people total, multiple of whom she met more than once. She’d pulled one of her first all-nighters in years putting together a dummy presentation on a hypothetical corporate partnership for interview No. 4, which entailed what she describes as a 15-minute “monologue” from her on the matter followed by a 45-minute Q&A with a panel. It wasn’t until the final interview that she got a real one-on-one sit-down with the person who would be her boss.
“Every time I thought, ‘Okay, this is the final hump,’ there was another thing,” said Jessica, which is a pseudonym. Vox granted her anonymity in order to protect her privacy and keep her out of hot water with her current employer. “It just gets really mentally exhausting, and it’s hard to manage your work schedule because obviously you don’t want your employer to know you’re interviewing.”
“There’s no reason why 10 years ago we were able to hire people on two interviews and now it’s taking 20 rounds of interviews,” said Maddie Machado, a career strategist who has previously worked as a recruiter at companies such as LinkedIn, Meta, and Microsoft. “It’s kind of like dating. When you go on a first date, you need a second date. You don’t need 20 dates to know if you like somebody.”
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Oh c'mon this one is painfully obvious.
"I feel bad for those who get f*cked by it, by this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shibboleths and so everyone likes us." - Samuel Bankman-Fried
"As for the actual job in question, she didn’t end up getting it. A week after her last interview, Jessica followed up with the recruiter and learned the organization was moving forward with another candidate. “They probably wanted to go with the other person all along but wanted me as a backup,” she said."
Oh wow!!! I hadn’t seen that one...My wife sent the joke to me in an e-mail...
Thanks...
“checks all the boxes!”
I hate interviewing.
I mean as a job candidate.
This is nuts. I’ve never had more than a phone or video conference screening interview followed by a site visit interview.
In a recent interview I didn’t get past the screening interview. I wonder if it was because I was the only one on the conf call that didn’t list my preferred pronouns. I’m not particularly saddened.
If a candidate drives his/her own car to the interview it can also be illuminating to observe any bumper stickers on the car.
I think laws mandate multiple people have to be interviewed. And the interviews must include a black, a Hispanic and trans boy who sometimes steals luggage.
I never hire ANYBODY with the “Caliph Baraq is my homeboy” bumper sticker.
Those are the least likely people you would want to COEXIST with!
10 years ago I had one phone interview and got the job. My current job, which will be my last, I had 5 interviews with 7 different people, two of those by phone. Actually the fifth interview was at my request because I wanted to see their manufacturing floor.
Current company has 22 HR personnel and they all list their preferred pronouns on Slack. Two more years and I’m out!
LOL! Not really funny though.
“Where do you see yourself in five years?”
“I see myself finishing my final interview and waiting to see if I get hired.”
When I was hiring I could eliminate most candidates within five minutes.
The finalists would get a tour of the facility and the quality of their questions would separate the candidates quickly.
It is also helpful to task them questions about your company or organization. If they have done ZERO research before the interview, that is a dead give-a-way too.
LOL, read the story, it was down to her versus another girl, and I guarantee you (a) both white (b) both woke Millenial (c) both passable looking. The only difference is the skirt chasers in the Executive Suite figured the other girl could simply be bought off more cheaply (note the loser in the article suggests her job-seeking was salary-motivated).
Agree. You are in a "hard skills" environment as an EE. It is the "soft" skills like "project managment', "business analysis" etc. that are more subjective on both sides of the process.
How does the salary negotiation work in your otherwise reasonable system? If any of the team members is threatened by a candidate's abilities and lobbies for a lowball offer, and you are more or less detached from HR during the paperwork phase, how do you determine what the incoming hire is actually worth?
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