One in Four Gen Z Job Applicants Bring Parents to Interview: Report

Gateway Pundit ^ | June 14, 2024 | C. Douglas Golden, The Western Journal

[Responsibility2nd]

INTERVIEWER: And just exactly why should I hire your kid? If your child fails to maintain our standards, will YOU be ready to step in and do the job?

[Retrofitted]

Yes, but awhile back (I don't do hiring anymore). Back in 1997, I was interviewing for an IT position (desktop support, nothing huge). The young man was perfectly on time... and so was his mother. I had to see where it was going so I kept her in the room. She didn't say anything once I started the interview but now and again, the kid would look at her, she would nod, and then he'd answer the question. Felt like she was his attorney or something. I didn't hire him, but it wasn't the mother-thing -- he just wasn't up to it. But, man, that was weird.

Not as weird as one applicant who, in the middle of the interview tried to hook me up with his mom, but close.

[NorthMountain]

1) Generational stereotyping is for idiots.

2) This isn’t the first time the practice of bringing parents to a job interview has made the news. I first saw references to it at least 20 years ago.

[Red Badger]

Notice, they just did a reprint:

C. Douglas Golden, The Western Journal

[Red Badger]

I have never heard of such a thing.

I have interviewed some really dumb people for high-tech jobs, but never in 40+ years have I had to deal with parents either before, during or after an interview...........

[ansel12]

Isn’t this and stuff like this really about mothers who divorced the dad or are single? In other words our generations being raised by women?

[NorthMountain]

but never in 40+ years have I had to deal with parents either before, during or after an interview.

Neither have I. It has, however, been bandied about on Big Media for at least two decades.

[Red Badger]

It wouldn’t surprise me................

[Ann Archy]

GOOD FOR BOTH OF YOU!!

[DesertRhino]

“I knew a guy that broke his hip in an auto accident. His mother drove him to a job interview because he was still unable to drive.”

Now THAT is admirable. It would tell me that with a broken hip, he finds a way to keep a commitment, somehow.

[DesertRhino]

Wowza, now THAT is a story.

[Oorang]

Since the author agrees that this is utterly stupid why does he keep referring to them as “the child” or “children”? They are 18+ years old, i.e. adults. The author is making the same mistake as the idiotic parents, not treating them as adults.

[Night Hides Not]

I’m lucky, the company I work for doesn’t put up with BS at work. Our Gen Z-era are all fantastic.

[Red Badger]

For the same reason the Media keeps calling Hunter Biden a ‘child’..................

[metmom]

When my kids went off to college, they knew how to grocery shop, cook, and do their own laundry. And they were some of the very few who did.

They had to teach their friends how to do their own laundry.

[Tired of Taxes]

"I’m thinking it *must* have been asked such that a parent having ever driven the kiddo to an interview—or been in the room during a virtual interview—must have counted?!?"

I think you're right. Good catch.

For the past decade or so, many parents have had to drive their kids to and from work for financial reasons. Parents with higher incomes don't understand. They can afford to pay the extra cost for Junior to drive. They might even buy Junior his first car. The rest of us cannot, so we end up giving our adult kids rides until they can afford everything on their own. I knew many families in that situation. I worked with young adults who got rides from their parents. They gave their paychecks to their parents, too. They were helping to support their families.

[9YearLurker]

Also, approximately 20% of Gen Zers from 18 to 27 are still teenagers, most likely to be living at home while seeking a job, whether or not they sometimes live at college.

If you work out the math of those involving parents times those of that subset taking parents in to interviews, it comes out to 8%, which is only 80% of the 18-year-olds in the studied population.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Misinformation.

That wss just Daddy with his shotgun making sure Junior gets a job and out of the danged house!

[Tired of Taxes]

I noticed the 8% earlier, but I wasn’t sure if my math was right. You just confirmed it.

Yup! They could be 18-year-olds in their last year of high school.

And, based on what I observed at one job, many of them are earning money for their parents.

[Albion Wilde]

But they can choose their gender!