Our department has been searching for another employee for the last several months. It hasn’t gone well (obviously, we’re still looking), and the one really impressive candidate took another job. We got another resume from HR today, and I was asked to evaluate it:
“I’d be tempted to bring him in just because he spelled everything right on his resume.”
That says it all…
Have you asked the 61 year old man living with his mom? Perhaps he could use some financial independence from mommy.
Just be careful; he may not show up after a hurricane hits!
when I left my other job, I volunteered to find a replacement. I heard statements like “I have kids, how are you on flexibility?” and “i don’t have a car so I may be late some days”. Some didn’t even show up. Professional etiquette is appalling but it sure makes me look good, relatively. 😀
That’s interesting. The “I have kids, how are you on flexibility?” statement… normally employers will ask questions to subtly find out those things. It’s illegal to ask that question to deny something a job based on that, of course. But wow, they must have made the employers job easier.
It is ABSOLUTELY illegal to talk about personal life in an interview, which just showcased this candidate’s ignorance. If they were just a little more educated, they would have said something like “Punctuality is very important to me. How do office hours work here? Is it 8-5 or flexible?” *sigh* but yeah it did make things easy for us. 😀