Career Help and Advice

DaveJ

(5,023 posts)

2. Hundreds during the interview stage?

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 02:56 PM

Jul 2012

The interview stage should be pre-filtered and include maybe 8-10 candidates at most. Really, they should be prepared to hire anyone who appears at that stage, but I'll agree that the world is not that way. So, 8-10 candidates. It should be easier to treat candidates with more dignity at this stage, candidates who go to the trouble of putting on a suite, taking a day off from whatever else they do, and prepare themselves for agreeing to what could be a major life altering event. There is no reason a manger, who should be intellectually developed, to not understand the broader sense of what is happening at that stage.

I see what your saying, but I can't accept that behavior as being appropriate based on that reason. It's still unprofessional.

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

Recommendations

0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

12 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

"I am trying to think of any reason not to hire you." [View all] DaveJ Jul 2012 OP

It helps to remember this: phantom power Jul 2012 #1

Hundreds during the interview stage? DaveJ Jul 2012 #2

I think you've touched on part of the problem phantom power Jul 2012 #3

Well, it's nice talking to someone like you who is friendly and also agrees with that strategy. DaveJ Jul 2012 #5

Depending on the context, I'd probably take it as a compliment. UrbScotty Jul 2012 #4

Interesting persepctive DaveJ Jul 2012 #6

Spam deleted by CaliforniaPeggy (MIR Team) rqsulfates Sep 2012 #7

what is worse is LiveNudePolitics Sep 2012 #8

Thank you for understanding DaveJ Dec 2012 #9

All the stuff you see in the course of a career, when you are employed is just as frustrating, LiveNudePolitics Dec 2012 #10

I'm looking at the problem from the outside in mainly. DaveJ Dec 2012 #11

Lateral movers, LiveNudePolitics Dec 2012 #12