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Wednesday, March 12, 2014
This is why I fear ever changing jobs.
I once told a job interviewer that her questions were ridiculous and that answering them would give her no indication of my ability to do the job.
When asked about weaknesses you could say "Well, I could give you the richard bruce cheeney answer." To paraphrase Shep Smith - That from dick cheney... politics is weird... and creepy.
There is a cottage industry devoted to "educating" HR people. That's why you keep hearing about weirder and stranger things happening on the hiring front, and it all comes at the expense of the unemployed, who have no idea why the HR manager is asking these strange sorts of questions.
The new methods haven't weeded out the thieves, liars, lazy or under-performing applicants... but they HAVE sold a lot of costly materials to companies that are "designed" to make the hiring process streamlined, better, more improved, yada, yada, yada...
Yes, totally agree with that. My daughter had been looking for a job for almost two years. (Thankfully, she was employed during that time, but wanted to get OUT of that job). She gave her resume to high-up people she knew in certain companies, but even with that 'foot in the door', there was nothing she could do to get hired. Turns out, a lot of companies now use some type of program, that looks for 'key words' in resumes, and if you don't hit those key words, your resume is automatically thrown out, with no human ever setting an eye on it. There was once a news story about a CEO of a company, who was so pissed off at not being able to find qualified applicants - and not believing that they did not exist - he went and applied for some job at his own company (a job that was just 'created' for him for this purpose) - and he did NOT get the job! After that, he instructed to his HR people to throw out their computer program that weeded out all those qualified people. ( My daughter finally got a job with a company he actually had applied to some time ago. Turns out, they did not have any records of her ever applying there before (and yes, I was told that that company keeps a record of who applies...) )
My husband was certified as a high school social studies/history teacher 2 and a half years ago. The only gigs he can get are as long term or building sub. No One will hire someone over 50. Never mind he's got 15 years teaching at university level, life experience, and a fierce love of history. They'd have to start his salary higher because of his Masters degree, and they'd have to worry about his retiring in 15 years (ain't ever going to happen). So, he's making minimum wage as a glorified baby sitter.
Those question about strengths and weakness are useless because HR staff are unable to tell the difference between those who tell the truth and those who are lying to get a job. Corporations are notorious for not doing background checks on executives who just say whatever they think HR wants to hear. Older people have more experience with detecting corruption, often refuse to participate in unethical actions due to knowing the consequences and are more likely to understand that speaking up influences others to object when corruption is expected of employees. Health care corporations actively and intentionally bully and run off older nurses for these reasons. It gets really ugly and keeps the experienced people off staff which decreases the quality of the care. It happens in many other types of corporations decreasing their productivity and quality.
I'm a teacher. I love teaching. But I don't like what our educational system is turning in to.
After I retire I do not plan to work again ever, except for myself. I have lists of things I want to do. I will be busier than I was during my career. And there may be some teaching in there. But it will be for love. Not to kiss the ass of some administrator who only cares about test scores and brown-nosing his own boss.
I was smart. I started planning for my retirement when I was in my early 30s and so will be retiring at 60, only three years after my planned retirement (due to the melt-down, thanks Wall Street assholes).
I am very much looking forward to it and am already starting to downsize everything from internet bookmarks to classroom materials to my wardrobe and jewelry.
I had earned my BA in 2005 at the age of 60 and haven't been able to find work commiserate with my degree or ability since that time. I actually had an interviewer scoff at my degree, saying that it had "gone stale". I countered that my degree was (at that time) only two years old, and how long ago had HE graduated? Of course, I wasn't hired.
I'll be 60 this year and have been interviewing with tech companies. Imagine. What 27 year old wants to manage a grandma coder?
ReplyDeleteI hope a tech co. has the vision to hire you.
DeleteLeft my last job......retired.......tired of swimming in the shark tank........
ReplyDeleteWhen asked about weaknesses you could say "Well, I could give you the richard bruce cheeney answer." To paraphrase Shep Smith - That from dick cheney... politics is weird... and creepy.
ReplyDeleteThere is a cottage industry devoted to "educating" HR people. That's why you keep hearing about weirder and stranger things happening on the hiring front, and it all comes at the expense of the unemployed, who have no idea why the HR manager is asking these strange sorts of questions.
ReplyDeleteThe new methods haven't weeded out the thieves, liars, lazy or under-performing applicants... but they HAVE sold a lot of costly materials to companies that are "designed" to make the hiring process streamlined, better, more improved, yada, yada, yada...
Yes, totally agree with that. My daughter had been looking for a job for almost two years. (Thankfully, she was employed during that time, but wanted to get OUT of that job). She gave her resume to high-up people she knew in certain companies, but even with that 'foot in the door', there was nothing she could do to get hired. Turns out, a lot of companies now use some type of program, that looks for 'key words' in resumes, and if you don't hit those key words, your resume is automatically thrown out, with no human ever setting an eye on it.
DeleteThere was once a news story about a CEO of a company, who was so pissed off at not being able to find qualified applicants - and not believing that they did not exist - he went and applied for some job at his own company (a job that was just 'created' for him for this purpose) - and he did NOT get the job! After that, he instructed to his HR people to throw out their computer program that weeded out all those qualified people. ( My daughter finally got a job with a company he actually had applied to some time ago. Turns out, they did not have any records of her ever applying there before (and yes, I was told that that company keeps a record of who applies...) )
My husband was certified as a high school social studies/history teacher 2 and a half years ago. The only gigs he can get are as long term or building sub. No One will hire someone over 50. Never mind he's got 15 years teaching at university level, life experience, and a fierce love of history. They'd have to start his salary higher because of his Masters degree, and they'd have to worry about his retiring in 15 years (ain't ever going to happen). So, he's making minimum wage as a glorified baby sitter.
ReplyDeleteThose question about strengths and weakness are useless because HR staff are unable to tell the difference between those who tell the truth and those who are lying to get a job. Corporations are notorious for not doing background checks on executives who just say whatever they think HR wants to hear. Older people have more experience with detecting corruption, often refuse to participate in unethical actions due to knowing the consequences and are more likely to understand that speaking up influences others to object when corruption is expected of employees. Health care corporations actively and intentionally bully and run off older nurses for these reasons. It gets really ugly and keeps the experienced people off staff which decreases the quality of the care. It happens in many other types of corporations decreasing their productivity and quality.
ReplyDeleteI'll be retiring in June of 2015 and glad of it.
ReplyDeleteI'm a teacher. I love teaching. But I don't like what our educational system is turning in to.
After I retire I do not plan to work again ever, except for myself. I have lists of things I want to do. I will be busier than I was during my career. And there may be some teaching in there. But it will be for love. Not to kiss the ass of some administrator who only cares about test scores and brown-nosing his own boss.
I was smart. I started planning for my retirement when I was in my early 30s and so will be retiring at 60, only three years after my planned retirement (due to the melt-down, thanks Wall Street assholes).
I am very much looking forward to it and am already starting to downsize everything from internet bookmarks to classroom materials to my wardrobe and jewelry.
I had earned my BA in 2005 at the age of 60 and haven't been able to find work commiserate with my degree or ability since that time. I actually had an interviewer scoff at my degree, saying that it had "gone stale". I countered that my degree was (at that time) only two years old, and how long ago had HE graduated? Of course, I wasn't hired.
ReplyDelete