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No, it certainly doesn't feel great. If I could, I would hire every qualified person, but the money is never there to do that.
I try to keep emotion out of hiring decisions. I hire people who are qualified to do the job. This is a combination of experience, personality, attitude and ability to learn. I make these decisions based on inadequate information, and I am sometimes wrong.
Often there are many qualified applicants and I can only hire one. I have to turn others down, which I do via our HR software which sends out generic rejection emails.
It is not a power or ego trip, and I understand that I am dealing with people's lives and well-being. I hire and fire as carefully and with as much deliberation as possible, with the goal of making my workplace a success.
It feels terrible. I just did a set of interviews where none of the candidates came across as the right fit. Two of them were possibilities, but in the end we're just going to go out for more applicants again.
You're sitting across from people that in some cases would benefit greatly from the position and pay, but if they won't benefit your business, you have to cut them loose.
I've only been in a position to interview other people a couple of times. But my feeling was mostly one of, "Wow... that sure was a disappointing waste of time for everyone involved." when interviewing candidates I knew we weren't going to select.
It feels like a neutral experience of being on a fact-finding mission in most cases, except when someone is unemployed or comes across as desperate, and then it's a painful experience. I have such empathy for people in a difficult situation. I've been there myself.
I'm curious why you think it would feel good. It isn't a matter of power it's a matter of interviewing to find the person who has the skills and personality to fit in and contribute. You're going to make one person very happy while making several unhappy. Sometimes the unhappy ones weigh on your mind because you think about how badly they may need a job. But if someone is not the best candidate, you have to brace yourself and do what's best for the team.
It depends on how the interview went. It is hard if you have a lot of qualified candidates and just not enough positions for all of them. It isn't as hard if you can tell they just aren't a good fit.
Nothing about the interviewing or hiring process feels powerful. To be honest, it is often intimidating and stressful on both sides of the table. Sometimes you even really like a candidate, but you know they are not a good fit for the position or the company and you have to move on. This is a strange question. OP, do you really think the people not hiring you are gleefully celebrating telling candidates no?
I've never hired or interviewed, obviously, and don't know if I could do it for the same reason I don't know if I could be a boss: I'd feel awful.
So, does it feel good or interesting to interview someone, then they get nothing?
Interested to hear.
If you were a boss, you'd probably be interviewing many folks for one position, which would necessitate your telling all but one of them that they didn't get the job. And you'd be thinking more of the suitability or fit for the position you're interviewing for than the feelings of the folks who interviewed. That's just the way it is.
No it doesn't. When there are some nice kids trying hard you actually feel bad for them for giving the change to somebody else, and you truly hope they get something else good. It is not personal, it is just business, not everybody make the team and if you interview an handful than you have to choose who you think is the best candidate, while the second best would also probably do fine if they where chosen. It is hard to rank people because sometimes from the short amount of time spent in the interview there is not that much difference in the response from two good candidates.
If I were interviewing, and saw a potential candidate that I was impressed with, but not a great fit for the job, I'd probably tell this person of other possible openings I knew of that might be coming up, or that were available, or maybe given him/her names of contacts I knew who might also be hiring.
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