4.7 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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0:00.0 | Managers. What small things immediately make you not hire a person, and why? |
0:05.6 | I just look for honesty and some self-respect. The roles I hire for are fairly entry-level, |
0:11.0 | so you don't need to be amazingly qualified or anything. I get a lot of young people for interviews, |
0:15.4 | and what annoys me the most is when they arrive dressed in casual clothes. I don't disregard |
0:19.8 | their application over clothes, but I do |
0:21.7 | sit and wonder why their friends or parents or partners let them come to an interview in such |
0:26.1 | sloppy clothing. That said, I did have a weird one. I hired a guy from a group-like session, |
0:31.0 | as he was probably the best and most confident person on the day. After hiring, a few weeks in, |
0:35.5 | he starts to become unreliable with his late finishes. |
0:38.3 | When I ask him what's up with that, he comes in one day, on his day off, and says he needs to |
0:42.4 | speak to me. He then tells me that he'll be resigning because he can't make the later working |
0:46.4 | hours, and that he's sorry for letting me down and appreciates us giving him a chance. He then |
0:51.1 | lifts his gene leg and shows me an electronic tag on his ankle. Turns out he was |
0:55.2 | released from prison two days before my interview and said he never bought it up because in a room |
0:59.4 | full of people, why would anyone employ the ex-con? When I thought about it, he's probably right. |
1:03.9 | Me and my colleague who were interviewing probably would have influenced our decision on him |
1:07.2 | if we knew, and he said he just wanted a fair chance. So the tag prevented him from being outside his home after 7pm, as he was charged for supply |
1:15.1 | when younger. I ended up calling the parole officer and the HMRC, and eventually altering his |
1:20.2 | curfew on the basis that I said he would have to be jobless if they didn't, and if you don't |
1:24.6 | allow him to have a legitimate job, what are the chances of him re-offending going to be? |
1:28.3 | He ended up being one of the best employees for a while. |
1:31.3 | We were looking for engineers, and we had this guy apply. |
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