Anyone know how you can get hired on the spot? (employees, job interview)

[mtlquebec102]

Does anyone if it's possible if you can walk into a place, looking for a job and they'll offer you one on the spot with no interview, or an on the spot interview and hired right after? Is it all about timing, location, who you know, etc.? Has this ever happened to anyone?

[kodaka]

Originally Posted by mtlquebec102

Does anyone if it's possible if you can walk into a place, looking for a job and they'll offer you one on the spot with no interview, or an on the spot interview and hired right after? Is it all about timing, location, who you know, etc.? Has this ever happened to anyone?

yes. for day laborers.

[FarNorthDallas]

yes many times in the 1980s

it's different now

[MrRational]

Originally Posted by mtlquebec102

Does anyone if it's possible if you can walk into a place... and hired right after?

yes, but... your question is asked in present tense.
It is a lot easier to do in times of lower unemployment.

Is it all about timing, location, who you know, etc.?
Has this ever happened to anyone?

It's about an alignment of their need for an X (a specific skill or just a warm body) with the persons availability.
And awareness by the decision maker the person exists... at the right point in time.

And yes all that can (could) be "managed" too.

Truth: Most jobs won't ever get advertised.
Advertising for help and especially at times like now is an admission of epic failure that the company couldn't attract a recruit from within or through the personal and professional contacts of those already there.

A sometimes exception: Bigger organizations have EEOC hoop jumping rules they need to go comply with.

[Hemlock140]

I have hired a couple of people that way before, back in the mid 90s. Business was booming and employees were hard to come by. Here in Sammamish, the McDonalds was importing people from Seattle, 23 miles by bus to work there.

These days it would take incredibly amazing luck.

[JohnPaul]

most prostitutes get hired like that, but the benefits aren't top notch

[Colts]

These days? Hell naw.

Back before the days of internet in the 1980s, you could walk into any department store, fill out an application, and get interviewed and hired--all in thirty minutes.

Today? Extensive online screening, personality tests, multiple interviews, etc--all to do something as simple as unpacking clothes to be placed on a shelf.

[sskkc]

I've been offered every position I've interviewed for, generally during the interview, at the end.

The latest being the position I just started a couple weeks ago. The actual hiring 'process' afterward took a couple months though (federal gov't job). (The offer was conditional on my passing the background check and drug test.)

I've also never had a job interview go less than an hour - the longer it goes, the better the outcome, in my experience.

It can happen.

[nicet4]

Still possible, as kodaka said, for "day laborers" or if you have a fairly rare skill set.

[Z3N1TH 0N3]

Originally Posted by Colts

These days? Hell naw.

Back before the days of internet in the 1980s, you could walk into any department store, fill out an application, and get interviewed and hired--all in thirty minutes.

Today? Extensive online screening, personality tests, multiple interviews, etc--all to do something as simple as unpacking clothes to be placed on a shelf.

For real. I had a more rigorous interview process getting in at Target than I did at my current position as an Operations Manager. Go figure.