Posted on 02/23/2002 5:03:47 AM PST by sarcasm
Any young person can get a job today, and a promising career if they work hard. Even the auto companies, after several announced layoffs, are quietly hiring young people to fill all those empty positions.
No one around here wants to hire a 50 year old man that has been layed off. All of the major companies around me have had big layoffs in the past year, letting go all of their old men. To replace them, they are all hiring contractors, new college graduates, and immigrants on h1-b visas. Today, Big companies do not want to hire any 55 year-old trainee, they want to hire a young new college graduate.
Of course she should. She just doesn't want to start at the bottom and work her way up. She wants to start at least in the middle. Meanwhile, idiotic Democrat politicians, push for higher and higher minimum wages just so potential Dem voters like this young woman can have the middle-class lifestyle (and child care, and housing and car) they desire without having to exert themselves.
I still think education is the answer. I'd rather my tax dollars go to educating the poor or disadvantaged than to what is now a perpetual welfare system.
I am very well aware of the laws pertaining to interviews. I have interviewed several hundred people.
I have a dozen you so open-ended questions that can bring out the answers to questions you can not ask. It's not illegal if they volunteer the information.
"How many days did you miss at your last job?"
"What would be the # 1 number reason at your last job you were unable to come to work?"
Legal questions, It's all how you ask the question
Very true, if you have done enough interviews the B.S meter gets fully calibrated and I can normally sniff out the bogus answers. .
I have a rock solid rule, never hire on the first interview. That normally weeds out the lazy ones.
I do get burned once in a while
Thanks
....even if they frequently show up late and work only part of the time at that....
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