I will never forget the CVS manager asking me if I had "a passion for retail"
yea boss i love standing for 8 hours straight and getting yelled at by middle aged women
Fuck LinkedIn, all my homies hate LinkedIn. LinkedIn is facebook for business perverts.
Don’t worry comrade, there is a LinkedIn executive on Biden’s transition team
legitimately though. requiring that, if someone applying for a job meets the requirements for that position, then they must be hired for that position, would fix so many fucking issues.
no more weeks long interviewing processes. just: you have the skills necessary for this? hired.
yes but the problem is that there are loads of people who have those, so if 30 people want to apply for a position only 10 people canget what do you do, first takes all?
they will respond by making the requirements arbitrarily impossible to meet, already do in many cases.
Sure but that removes the point of trying to find the applicant from whom the most value can be extracted for a given wage. Not to mention counterintuitive cases where the job listing isn't actually there for the purpose of hiring someone (e.g. they already have someone lined up but policy dictates that they make a job posting anyway). And finally, if hiring managers are getting oceans of equally-qualified applicants and choosing a handful for arbitrary reasons, they might realize how bullshit their job is and get sad 😥.
FUCK psychometric testing.
Bullshit’s astrology for middle managers who walked into their jobs with nothing more than a firm handshake 50 years ago.
I don’t know what’s worse—that it doesn’t work, or that they think it does.
Every question I got, I posted to a group chat with mates for us to rip into it and figure out the ‘right’ answer.
Fuck your tests.
i got a psychometric test to see if i could be sent to study in another country, and i was so anxious halfway through so i finished only 40% of it and i got rejected. when my mother asked the program they answered (probably automatically) that i wasnt mature enoguh and i should've waited some time more :c
I refuse to make a LinkedIn. Like, if I ever have to use that as a way to network or get a job I guess I'll just stock shelves at a grocery store for the rest of my life.
Does he keep yapping about start-ups as well? "Hey son, you should really look into venture capital and series-A/series-B funding"
Yeah, LinkedIn is trash. Hiring practices are trash. Job hunting is trash. Solidarity.
i deactivated most of my social media and people from school still manage to request to "join my network." doesn't take much effort but that shit is certainly dangerous because what if you got people you want to avoid/stalkers and now they know where you work and your contact information? linkedin culture disturbs me greatly.
Fuckers ask me for my hobbies and shit as if they need to know about that
Dont know if this is true for every recruiter but the guy who selected me for one internship I did told me that he did that to see candidates talk about something they genuinely to later compare it with how they answer when they are asked why they want the position
Dont know really., I guess he wanted to see if people were really passionate about the position.
Assuming we're talking about desk jobs at big companies:
That's why you lie about absolutely everything. "My hobbies are biking, gardening, balancing my budget, trying new things and going on adventures. :)" Basically create a new bootlicking persona that lasts for the interview and your first month at the job. Or at least until you've gotten used to your job tasks.
After that you can let it dissolve to reveal the true armchair leftist goblin inside. "HAH, I can't remember the last time I exercised or spent more than half an hour outside. Hey, anyone read the Bullshit Jobs book? I've got a copy if you want to read it." Odds are it'll be an expensive pain in the ass to replace you at that point, so as long as you're half way competent and don't start any fights they should keep you on until the next hiring rounds begin. Maybe even after that if they get used to you.
And yet, it's 90% who you know. Not 100% otherwise I'd be stuck working temp jobs and doing poorly, but 90%.
