[STONEWALLS]

...some kids act this way in college, so it's no wonder they act this way on job interviews...wearing flip flops, taking cell phone calls, calling Mommy when they get a bad grade ect...they have no clue about what the workplace world requires.

[OldPossum]

The last job interview I went on was in 1966 (obviously, I was hired) and I did’t need any of the advice proffered here. I knew then—from common sense—that one went into the interview dressed in a neat, well-fitted suit, cleanly shaven, and on one’s best manners. The shenanigans outlined here would have been unthinkable to me.

[Blue Ink]

Yeah, yeah, don’t wear flip-flops or take your kid to an interview. But fill out a job application? Listen, all you whiny, put-upon Human Resources types: hand-written job applications are a pointless holdover from the early twentieth century, when nobody had a typewriter and copiers hadn’t been invented.

EVERYBODY has a resume with contact info, job history, and education. Painstakingly transferring a bunch of dates by hand to boxes on a form is ludicrous. Imagine if you had to fill out an ID form every time you swiped your credit card — you’d take your business somewhere you could just show your driver’s license. (But you can’t — you’re out of a job, so you shut up and take it.)

With resumes the norm, filling out redundant, obsolete applications are a Human Resources petty power thing, serving only to humiliate vulnerable job-seekers and to show you who’s boss from the get-go.

I admire applicants who refuse and sensibly hand the little tyrants a copy of their resumes. (Not that I’m one of them — I want the gig! I just denounce. And complain about it later on FR, obv.)

[dragnet2]

This is all BS...

These people getting out of these schools will be entering a meat grinder of employer greed, stagnate wages, slashed benefits, and phony meaningless incentives in lieu of real deserved raises...Where all the corporate insiders spend their day devising schemes to reduce employees incomes while increasing their work load...

I feel for the young people graduating in today's America.

They will be entering a meat grinder.

[Logic n' Reason]

Ahhhhhh....the author missed the key reason why an applicant does not get a job due to the interview. And I'm surprised the author missed it, for it is the NUMBER ONE REASON by far that a potential applicant does not get a job offer.

Of course, it may be that the jobseeker really can do little about it....and the more time that passes, the less the applicant can do at all.

Yep, too bad the author missed it.

It's called AGING!

[Larry Lucido]

And DON’T wear a short skirt and low cut blouse. I almost didn’t hire the last chick who did that.

And if she doesn’t stop, I may have to let her go.

Someday.

[Cindy]

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