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Why focus on this particular unfair hiring practice?
I mentioned on another thread the bank manager of the branch where I worked would only hire attractive people. She felt like this was a positive influence on the customer service scores.
Now, we can all agree this is also an unfair hiring practice. But how the heck can you police that???
it is totally unfair to other candidates. fair chance if all had equal chance at getting a job.
I understand if small mom and pop stores.
Life. Isn't. Fair.
It never was.
In any event, maybe all the other candidates did have an equal chance and the family member was the most qualified. Certainly not impossible.
If the family member hadn't been a candidate, there was still going to be a choice to be made, so whoever possessed the particular collection of qualities the company wanted was going to have a better chance at being hired than the other candidates. When a selection has to be made, someone is going to win and someone is going to walk away without the job. Fact of life. Not unfair.
Nepotism meaning managers can hire their friends,relatives etc.
there are some regulations for City/Federal employment
but Private sector like Fortune 500 companies don't have.
I think all hires should be done randomly as long person qualifies for job! like a lottery
Oh, so you're for complete government control over every business, even private ones? How very communist of you.
And I think when a person starts his own company it should be his prerogative to hire the persons he chooses to hire. We are not a communist country where the government has any business controlling what private enterprise does. If you don't like what the other company management does, start your own business and do what you think is right with it.
Hey, a citydata member who isn't a socialist! Good work!
A lot of corporate apologists here for companies that are engaging in slimy acts. Probably how they got the position they're in through a buddy/relative. Bottom line the BEST candidate should be hired for the job. However, we know in todays unscrupulous crappy corporate environment that RARELY happens as they have to make way for the useless brown noser, "friend Of the family," or relative even if that individual may be the LEAST qualified of all candidates
To answer your question, yes. Nepotism should be made illegal as the most qualified candidates aren't getting a fair shot just because the hiring manager has some crony, buddy, relative they want for the position. There no "equal opportunity" there sorry
I usually like your posts, but I have to disagree with you here.
Extreme cases of nepotism and cronyism, where someone's frat brother/sorority sister/relative/flag football buddy/etc., gets hired, and s/he is not even an 1/8th of the other legitimate candidates, really suck, but what can you even do about that?
I'd be willing to bet that, if you knew or respected the opinion of someone who knew one of the final candidates, you'd hire that over the other candidate(s). When you truly do not know what you're getting until the person you hired starts working, wouldn't you want to have every advantage possible in knowing if you're getting a quality candidate?
And like others have said, if you get the nudge over another equally qualified candidate, simply because you knew someone in the firm that could vouch for you as a person and a professional, you wouldn't want that?
You can't be sure that the best candidate wasn't hired for the position, just because s/he knows someone at the firm.
I've worked at a couple of places that were family owned/family run. The worst part of it was when each of the managing relatives handed out assignments at nearly the same time with the instructions of Now, if not sooner completion time. Someone in the family is NOT going to get their way, and the worker who can't work miracles will take the brunt of the ire, because the family sticks together and it's never their fault. Much easier to work where the upper management can attach each other when they do something ridiculous to the workers....
Now, we own our own business... and we aren't hiring anyone. Solves the issue entirely.
Nepotism meaning managers can hire their friends,relatives etc.
there are some regulations for City/Federal employment
but Private sector like Fortune 500 companies don't have.
I think all hires should be done randomly as long person qualifies for job! like a lottery
I moved out of Wyoming to get away from that crap.
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