Posted on 04/29/2013 1:01:29 PM PDT by detective
Newly minted college graduates soon entering the job market could be facing another hurdle besides high unemployment and a sluggish economy. Hiring managers say many perform poorly—sometimes even bizarrely—in job interviews.
Human resource professionals say they've seen recent college grads text or take calls in interviews, dress inappropriately, use slang or overly casual language, and exhibit other oddball behavior.
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Nothing wrong with discreet tattoos and piercings. I have lots of tattoos and piercings. If I take out my earrings (which I would do for any interview) none are visible, nor are any visible in my business attire (shirt, tie and slacks).
Colleges tend to fill students’ heads with a sense of entitlement. They push the idea that companies are just dying to hire them so naturally they think they can play ping-pong on their break and bring their dog to work.
She did. No money in that. However she has found a niche going after the college business programs. They are interested in this stuff and they have money.
Apparently you don’t need to know interviewing etiquette if you plan on working at Starbucks.
Love em or hate em Millennials are huge cohort to deal with in the workplace. They are about 85 million people whereas Gen X is about 40 million people...
“So does this mean the 50-somethings, college grads have half a chance at getting jobs?”
Not really. And especially not if they are long-term unemployed. We have been bypassing a lot of the long-term unemployed because they have become feral.
Yep the workplace is an alien landscape these days. I was shocked when I started seeing cell phones on the factory floor for personal calls.
I second your statement. In 1979 when I was just starting out, I interviewed for a job at Citibank’s Manhattan headquarters. I showed up at the appointed time, and sat outside the HR person’s office for an hour and a half. Her office had windows, so she could see that I was there. She see talked the whole time on the phone to her sister about her sister’s upcoming wedding. After an hour and a half, she got up and left her office. I waited for another half hour before finally going to the receptionist who said “Oh, she left a half hour ago”. I wrote a letter to the top HR executive at Citibank, and I’m sure she caught hell for it. A few days later, they called me back for an interview with a more senior level HR person. But they didn’t hire me.
He said of his recent interviews: "....And they just didn't care that I have a four-year degree. They're just GIVING people jobs that have experience, but only a HS diploma! It's Not Fair!!"
I managed to restrain myself from laughing. Suggested that he revamp his interviewing skills and resume to highlight his work-study experience on the campus Help Desk. Will see what happens. I don't know the kid well, but based on what little I've seen, there's no way I'd give him a job.
I've interviewed 100's of entry level candidates over the years and can cofirm what your daughter has seen. Last place I worked, we started out looking for a Help Desk person with a little experience, and a laundry list of 'nice-to-haves'.
We wound up with "Must show up on time, and not curse at the interviewer."
Let me guess, you are one of the social media generation?
They aren’t doing that at Texas A&M.
My son is a freshman there. He’s been in for some culture shock since he’s from California.
He says that kids at A&M work hard!
We’ve been visiting colleges (so far mostly in California) with my younger twins daughters. During their spring break, we visited my son at A&M. I noticed that everywhere we went on campus, there were kids studying. At the coffee shop, kids had their computers and books and were taking notes.
I was impressed!
I’ve been very happy with A&M so far. I went there many years ago, and it seems they are still doing a good job.
Mrs WBill teaches at a local Community College. I suggested your wife's same idea to her, a few years back. I think it's great....How to dress, etiquette for business meetings, lunches, business speech (communications), resume writing, networking, and so on and so on....
She also thought it was brilliant. She ran it up the chain of command, and got your response. "Thanks, but no thanks......we got this.", approximately.
I suppose that when you're graduating kids who can barely read and do basic math, then "Interviewing skills" aren't high on the list. And, they're probably racist, anyway.
A far easier interview tactic is to simply ask them who they voted for.
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Only an idiot would answer that question.
Only a bigger idiot would ask it.
Same here. I could understand a emergency call, but has one interviewer take a clearly personal call. I waited a few minutes to see if they would hang up, they didn’t. When I got up to leave, they hung up, asked me to sit down. I did. They then asked me to remind them were we left off. I walked out.
I interviewed probably 60 to 80 entry-level employees for my small business over the years. I really preferred a high-school graduate who had worked some temp jobs in different fields to a new college graduate.
The bright, well-spoken high school graduates seemed to be able to learn new skills faster and more willingly than the college grads who majored in one field and could get stuck in a rut. Also, I had a lot of independent contractors who had basically just gone to trade school and made significantly more money than the college grads, which caused a lot of resentment in the workplace.
Be able to claim you paid for all or part of your school.
You are aware of what college costs these days, aren't you?
Pardon my ignorance. What is a space camp? Is it where the kids take up space? Do they teach them to fill the space between their ears?
Kid I talked to is some kind of an IT major from a 4-year college. I wasn't interested in hiring him, so honestly, I just tuned out that bit. Additionally, I told him that most of my team only had HS diplomas.....they got their technical training OJT from Uncle Sam.
He really, really didn't like that. But, to his credit, he kept his mouth shut. Might be a little hope for him, just not where I'm working now.
You are aware of what college costs these days, aren’t you?
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Apparently you are not.
Towson University in Towson Maryland, oneof Maryland’s state schools is about 4200/semester for a full time student not living on campus. A little over 2 grand if you take but 6 credits per semester.
2 year community colleges with AA degrees considerably less.
When I recruited IT a few years back, where you went to school was meaningless. Of course we didn’t get a lot of Ivy League applicants down here in MD.
Quite a few times it has been the interviewer that seems distracted, not interested, or actually has no clue what they are doing. It makes me think they have already decided on someone and are just going through the motions.
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