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[kronas]

research has shown that the majority of managers make thier minds up in 'seconds' whether they want to hire a particular person.

the survey conducted out of a 1,000 managers only a tiny minority wanted to thoroughly question a candidate.

Most of those questioned by employment law firm Peninsula said they had recruited someone only to regret it later.

Reasons for not offering someone a job included inappropriate dress sense, lack of enthusiasm, bad manners, lack of preparation, being interested only in salary or giving one-word answers to questions

source: breakingnews.ie

http://www.breakingnews.ie/2005/01/16/story184933.html

Originally Posted by kronas

research has shown that the majority of managers make thier minds up in 'seconds' whether they want to hire a particular person.

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Reasons for offering the job include large breasts, short skirts and no boyfriend...!

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[andygrif]

Well having worked for a company that used Peninsula instead of having an HR department, I can honestly say that they are bloody useless and I wouldn't trust anything they said. IMHO of course.

[Escapee]

I have been involved in interviewing quite a few people over the last 18 months, I find that HR speak to the agencies and present a pile of CV's to us.
HR then get very annoyed when we say none of them are suitable, as far as HR are concerned the person has (claims to have) all the skills we require for the job and the agency has enough faith to put them forward.

Larger companies often accept information on CV's at face value, very often the manager condusting the interviews doesn't know his a**e from his elbow when it comes to the job in question anyway. the guy who gets the job then is often the one who sounds like he knows it all.

We interviewed an ex-ntl guy before christmas, his CV gave the impression that he had formally worked on ntl's network and spent some time in the headend. I didn't let on that I userd to work for ntl and started asking questions to see what he actually knew, it soon came clear to me that he had never been near the network and was more than likely in some fault management role. It was interesting however to get the view of my boss after the interview, as he said "That guy seems to know his stuff"

The guy was very convincing, and to someone who couldn't take is answers on anything other than face value he appeared to know what he was talking about.

So D****n, if your reading this sorry but BS doesn't work!

[BBKing]

Reasons for offering the job include large breasts, short skirts and no boyfriend...!

I've got two out of three, then, must be how I got the job.

Working in a team where one job interview consisted of 20 minutes talking about guitars*, I'm always slightly of the view that personality compatibility is more important than a star-studded CV, you should aim for one introverted sociopathic genius for ten normal people. Mind you, I sometimes think we're the other way round.

* the guy got the job too, and is one of the best men you'd ever want to work with.

[Stuart C]

Originally Posted by Graham

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Reasons for offering the job include large breasts, short skirts and no boyfriend...!

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Of course that doesn't work if you are a bloke. Unless the boss has a fetish for fat single blokes in mini skirts..

[Chris]

I have been involved in interviews within our department for a couple of posts that came up in the last year or so. I have found that you can get the measure of someone pretty quickly, but maybe I'm just good at working people out. I wouldn't base an employment decision on first impressions, but I've noticed that there's a correlation between my first impression and which candidates turn out to be the strongest overall.

[Damien]

Originally Posted by Chris T

I have been involved in interviews within our department for a couple of posts that came up in the last year or so. I have found that you can get the measure of someone pretty quickly, but maybe I'm just good at working people out. I wouldn't base an employment decision on first impressions, but I've noticed that there's a correlation between my first impression and which candidates turn out to be the strongest overall.

I heard a good idea was to throw stuff at the person being interviewed. If he takes your abuse in good humor then hes perfect to work in a store.

[Nugget]

Originally Posted by Damien

I heard a good idea was to throw stuff at the person being interviewed. If he takes your abuse in good humor then hes perfect to work in a store.

Yeah, but a punch in the face often offends (and I've always found that stores take assault really badly )

Originally Posted by BBKing

I've got two out of three, then, must be how I got the job.

Let's *not* go there. Please!!!

[Damien]

I normal spend the first 3 mintues settling in then start telling sheep jokes until they call security