How would you change the job interview process?

[sandsthetime]

Originally Posted by DorianRo

Hire the candidate most qualified for the position you are hiring for. Not the least qualified and friend of the family and potential beer/love buddy because at the end of the day, it makes you look inept as a hiring manager when the applicant doesn't pan out.

Companies don't hire the best qualified candidate. They hire the person who gives the best interview.

You have valid arguments about the entire process but at the end of the day, the people with the money make the rules.

[RamenAddict]

Originally Posted by sandsthetime

Companies don't hire the best qualified candidate. They hire the person who gives the best interview.

You have valid arguments about the entire process but at the end of the day, the people with the money make the rules.

That is absolutely not true. Most companies use a variety of factors to choose the candidate. At my last job, they would score the application and the interview and add them together to see which candidate was the top choice. They'd then look at the salary requirements and how long they'd likely stay. I know we had a lot of people who were the best interviewers who had unrealistic salary requirements or would leave quickly who were the best interviewers and they were not selected.

There are also people who can ruin their prospects after the interview. I know we had someone who was in the running for a position who was rude and unresponsive to the HR liaison when she was coordinating the background/reference checks. That got her disqualified.

[WildCardSteve1]

Don't do em. It indicates indicisiveness.


Last time I asked for money and they didn't like that. Bye bye. Salvation Army work, dreamed up by useless HR.

[IamDot]

Originally Posted by loose cannon

The job process should be come on in. Fill out an application. If you want to start next week you can. That's it. Just like the old days. NO hr bimbos, online test, ect. It's all bull. If i owned a company i'd advertise in the paper, "come on in!'

That's what I would do. Even more so put a sign up in the window saying "help wanted." Then when someone walks in I would have that person fill out the application (on paper) there and talk to that person for a few minutes. If I felt good about that person I would hire on the spot.

I would never do the crap they do now by telling someone to fill an app online after that person walks into the building advertising that they are hiring.

[jvmillion83]

Like the old days, fill out an application. Companies waste so much time in the process only to hire someone internal in the end.

The adage of "If you don't like your job, find another one" is such blasphemy these days. Finding a new job isn't simple at all so no wonder there's many so miserable at their current ones.