I was on a panel with a younger hiring supervisor who seems to place crazy high significance on interviewing skills and those specific characteristics.
myself and other, slightly older (and more chill interviewers) tried a few times to gently nudge them that doing "great" on an interview does not guarantee a good employee. personally, I didn't finish college at a time when schools were quite so up-the-ass as to provide interview coaches that trained people in how to seem perfect.
anyway, it didn't seem to sink in.
personally I would take a dozen awkward weirdos in ill fitting clothes with curiosity, initiative, and interest than some trained seal who can balance a ball on their nose for 30 minutes.
I worked around the seals. they showboat good in meetings and with bosses, but don't always generate good work product.
I also find interviewing to be such a fraught experience, the humans charged with doing it should be much gentler and more respectful to the human in the hot seat.... who is NOT being paid to be there.
I was on a panel with a younger hiring supervisor who seems to place crazy high significance on interviewing skills and those specific characteristics.
myself and other, slightly older (and more chill interviewers) tried a few times to gently nudge them that doing "great" on an interview does not guarantee a good employee. personally, I didn't finish college at a time when schools were quite so up-the-ass as to provide interview coaches that trained people in how to seem perfect.
anyway, it didn't seem to sink in.
personally I would take a dozen awkward weirdos in ill fitting clothes with curiosity, initiative, and interest than some trained seal who can balance a ball on their nose for 30 minutes.
I worked around the seals. they showboat good in meetings and with bosses, but don't always generate good work product.
I also find interviewing to be such a fraught experience, the humans charged with doing it should be much gentler and more respectful to the human in the hot seat.... who is NOT being paid to be there.