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If you tell us during the interview you are looking at other position elsewhere, odds are your paperwork will get shred. During the interviews, unless we ask you about other potential offers, bringing it up is a kiss of death. Why would you mention it at that stage unless you are trying to intimidate us into making an offer?
Once a conditional offer is made, at that point telling us may adjust some factors of the conditional offer, but not much else. We are not hard up for employees and employees seldom are that good that we will shake in our boots because they have other offers. Sometimes, we say 'well, take one of the others' and withdraw our offer.
It depends on the situation.
I recently had multiple interviews. One business gave me an offer before I interviewed at a different location. I told that second business that I already had an offer (in an effort to push along their offer). Well, they took too long and I accepted the first offer. I ended up declining the second offer once it was finally given to me.
It seems some employers actually are hard up for employees.
If they need someone today they will prefer unemployed. If they are simply looking for the best person then unemployment bias is real and most prefer someone who is employed.
Case in point: corporations prefer hiring the employed over the unemployed and then whine about all the job hopping going on. Absolute incompetence.
Another thing which companies seem to overlook is the fact that an unemployed person will be a bit more appreciative and enthusiastic about working again. They might even be more loyal to your organization for finally giving them a chance after months of countless interviews and frustration. Sure, it might take them a week or two to get up to speed but that's true for anybody, hence probationary periods. An already-employed person will be more willing to walk/go back to their old job if the new position/culture doesn't fit with what they anticipated. An unemployed person wouldn't have that luxury and could be more willing to stick around.
Completely false statement and totally flawed logic. By your reasoning someone who has been biking for years and then stops for months can longer bike. Being unemployed does not erode a person's skills. It's just a convenient excuse in corporate america to cover their laziness and incompetence in hiring. Case in point: corporations prefer hiring the employed over the unemployed and then whine about all the job hopping going on. Absolute incompetence.
You are absolutely correct. You don't forget how to ride a bike (as you say) or how to drive a stick shift because you haven't done it for the last ten years. You pick right back up from where you left off. Actually most jobs never change and someone can plop in and out of those jobs randomly over the span of 30 years and be able to do that same job proficiently no matter the time gap. I'm serious.
One time, I faked a resume and a job application to make it look like I was currently working. I also made both relevant to the position and I still got rejected. If they caught my fake application, they would have told me. But employers never tell you why you got rejected.
Look up much "information" kids forget over summer break as claimed by school districts.
People who spent decades in their field don't magically forget everything in a few months. They would have Alzheimer's if they did
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