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Would you ever want to work for someone who refuse to hire you cause you did not shake their hand ?

 
 
Methen
 
Reply Fri 21 Feb, 2020 07:20 am
To me this has got to be most childess and stupid thing I have ever heard of and should be made illegal
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jespah
 
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Reply Fri 21 Feb, 2020 08:04 am
The entire in-person interviewing process is pretty dopey, and probably doesn't help anyone make any sort of a valuable assessment of someone's fitness for a job or their character/ability to work with others.
https://hbr.org/2019/05/recruiting
https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/science-81-percent-of-people-lie-in-job-interviews-heres-what-top-companies-are-.html
https://www.inc.com/gene-marks/research-now-shows-why-job-interviews-are-a-waste-of-time.html

A 90-day trial or at least a skills assessment test is a far better way to determine if someone would be a good fit in a company. The standard old school job interview is classist and probably also sexist, racist, and ageist. It certainly favors people who are better-looking and less fidgety, which could mean it discriminates against people with ADHD and who are on the autism spectrum.

Stupidest interview I ever went on (I actually went through this idiotic process on two separate occasions) was a group interview where we had to use straws (yes, drinking straws) to keep an egg from breaking after dropping it from I believe it was 3 feet. After the first time, I knew the trick so I aced that part. I wasn't offered the job either time -- and the whole stupid group interview was for CSRs (it was a cruise company) and not IT. But, they allegedly couldn't change it -- which told me a lot more about their corporate culture than anything else.

Particularly during the novel coronavirus epidemic and other health concerns, not shaking someone's hand could be downright lifesaving.
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