To all job seekers out there

[debilorrah]

No BAD as in excel is on their resume, but they don't know how to insert a row. Or BAD as in they have 30 minutes to do three SMALL tasks and only one has completed ANYTHING. One gal was honest and said she didn't know excel but did very well on the other two. She is at the top of the list right now. One question asked was "where do you see yourself in 5 years?" This one gal said "I don't know - no one ever calls me back".

 

[karl lutz]

Dont know what you are looking for but if you have lots of pierceings strange hair and stuff lose it before you waste time going around cause employers dont want someone with an attention complex.

 

[debilorrah]

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Aint that the truth!!!!!

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

this is hilarious... hee hee hee sorry for all the heartburn, debiraymond but this is really funny.. hee hee hee

what you mean all those youngsters and gonna find out that the world does NOT revolve around them? hee hee hee

oh well - they will work it out. i could tell stories about how i made interviewee's cry..those where the days......

oh well. chickens are easier

 

[StupidBird]

How funny! My sister just had a rant about doing the interviews in her department. As part of a panel of interviewers, her one question she fought to keep was something along the line of: "based on our company's website description of your project (that this person was being specifically hired for) what do you anticipate being the most challenging aspect of the xyz blah-blah-blah implemenation?" All this would have entailed is the applicant reading the job description and visiting the company website. The applicants have two weeks after notification before the appointment. NO ONE has yet to do that! She says the deer-in-the-headlight look is just priceless. And sooo sad.

 

[Rosalind]

Interviewed a lady who has been unemployed since last year. She had a great resume. In the interview, she volunteered, unprompted, that she had botched a clinical trial so badly that I was astounded Harvard had allowed the trial to continue at all. Her mistake was not one that could be easily made, either--it required a level of cluelessness so profound that obviously her two brain cells weep into their pillows at night because they are all alone in the dark. I asked her what she learned from it, and she said, "That paperwork is really hard! I hate paperwork." We're a pharmaceutical company, so that pretty much killed her chances. Worse, about a month ago we interviewed for an entry-level job for a student fresh out of college. The girl we ended up hiring answered all the technical questions perfectly. This lady with 15 years experience and an MS couldn't answer the same technical questions relevant to the job that a kid fresh out of college answered.

I really really really wish that career counselors and guidance counselors would stop chanting the whole "Follow your dreams" horsepuckey. How about they tell future college students/grads, "Pay the bills!"

 

[debilorrah]

Wow that description of an airhead is PERFECT!!!! We have actually had two candidates today that would probably fit in, and we have 4 more tomorrow to talk to. But the ones that are in the NO pile are really something else. One showed up in jeans. One wore so much perfume I could barely breathe.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I am in Human Resources and I see a lot of strange things throughout the course of a day. I think a few of the things that stand out in reference to things that applicants have said, done and wore are listed below:

1. An applicant indicated on her application that the reason she left her last job was because her employer "said that she acted too ghetto". I did a double take when I read that.

2. An applicant came in with a large tatoo of cat paws on her upper chest. Her shirt was so low, the tatoo could not be missed.

3. An applicant read a magazine while I tried to interview her. After a few questions and I knew that she was not going to put the magazine away, I politely thanked her for coming in and said good bye.

4. An applicant's phone rang and I asked her to turn off her phone. She responded by saying, "Excuse Me" and did not turn off her phone. I cut that interview short.

I have listed a few things that really tick me off when dealing with applicants.

1. Phone messages that are TOO LONG. You wait 5 minutes to hear the applicants "favorite song" and most of the time, the song has foul language. Then.......when the voice mail comes on, the applicant's message is something like this. "Yo Yo. What up? Yea, sorry I can't pick up but you now what time it is. I'm hanging out with my padners and I dont' feel like talking. If I like you, I will hit you back. If I don't like you, then don't worry about me calling you back. Understand? Peace out. Have a Blessed Day." Now after that message, you're telling me to have a Blessed Day???? Are you serious???????

2. Applicants who waste an entire bottle of cologne or perfume on them and stink up my entire office. DO NOT WEAR PERFUME OR COLOGNE!!! The interviewer may have allergies or suffer from migrane headaches!

3. DO NOT smoke a pack of cigarettes before your interview. The smell of smoke in a closed office stinks!

4. Please have a complete resume or complete your application with phone numbers of all employers and references!!

5. DO NOT bring your mother or boyfriend or 3 children to the interview.!

6. Please take out all of the facial and other visible piercings (tongue rings)and cover the tattoos.

Those are just only a few. I could write a book!

 

[debilorrah]

Kuntrygirl I could too!!!!! The one today with the three inch fingernails took the cake. Now, I understand that there are many people with long fingernails that are proficient with a keyboard. This gal used ONE fingernail to type with, yet listed she could type 65 WPM. It isn't that we need a typist, but we don't need a liar either.

 

[Chicky Tocks]

True story: *NOT to mean this is your office Debi*

I once procured a job at a general contractor's office out of 150 applicants. That's a HUGE number of resumes to read! It blew my head right up and I felt really good about myself...for about a week.

Turned out it was the worst job I'd ever had in my life! The boss was ADHD. He was the most rude and obnoxious person I'd ever met...and he walked around the office scratching himself in certain places; front and back.

He didn't care who saw it. It took a couple of weeks before my eyes didn't automatically bug out and avert to the offending itch.

Also, my desk was situated right in front of the office door and when he'd had a bad day out in the field, he would slam the door open, no window to warn me he was on his way in, just type type type KABAAAAMMMM! By the time I left that job, I was a nervous little skeleton. I left my skin behind when I finally grabbed my purse and ran screaming from that office.