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Am I the Genius?

Managers, What Small Things Immediately Make You Not Hire a Person?

Am I the Genius?

youtube.com/@amithegenius

Self-improvement, Education

4.7643 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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