Never felt any of that. One time, however, two or three of us interviewed a young woman
for a role that was more senior than her experience as it turns out. She was from France, had recently moved to NL for her Dutch boyfriend and was now trying to find her first step on the career ladder which is even harder when you're newly arrived from abroad.
But during the interview she came across as very intelligent in her interview, socially very skilled, really clear in her career goals and very authentic. I suggested creating a role for her because we had talked about the desperate need we had to bring in younger people with a bit more enthusiasm, drive and eagerness to develop, to shake up our experienced yet ageing, stagnant and cynical team. Would have been great for us and a great learning curve for her. It made total sense.
But the reaction I got was that I was only suggesting it because she was a beautiful, young French blonde etc etc etc. Stupid thing is that a few weeks later the same people decided we needed that youth and hired a 21 year old male junior member of staff for exactly the role I'd talked about. He was s**t, lazy, hated it, took loads of coaching hours, got a couple of courses on his CV and then f**ked off as soon as his one year contract was up.
I'll never forget that one. Had the poor girl been ten years older or slightly less attractive she'd have been given that role without question.
Posted By: Steve in Holland on April 10th 2018 at 17:14:22
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- Has anybody here done a video interview with a virtual interviewer before? (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Apr 10, 14:51:10
- An ex colleague is their customer success director (General Chat) - camcan, Apr 10, 17:17:06
- An interesting client, if you know what it is. Bit of a departure (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Apr 10, 17:43:18
- No, but I'm just back from a 4 person panel interview...wasn't expecting that (General Chat) - BSE Canary, Apr 10, 16:39:06
- did they grant your parole? (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Apr 10, 16:45:50
- I hate those. (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Apr 10, 16:43:24
- As both interviewee and interviewer by the way. When doing an interview like that I find (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Apr 10, 16:46:00
- good idea as it can reduce favouritism shown by the interviewer (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Apr 10, 16:20:43
- I hope you're not implying that's how I've got all my jobs! (n/m) (General Chat) - Bravo win or die, Apr 10, 16:52:41
- I don't think it is going to help me with the one I am doing the interview for... (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Apr 10, 17:04:15
- no, but I do remember doing a series of interviews, and one candidate was extraordinarily (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Apr 10, 17:03:37
- Never felt any of that. One time, however, two or three of us interviewed a young woman (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Apr 10, 17:14:22
- Arrrgh! It's so hard being a woman. You can't win! Why was it not down to how good she (General Chat) - Bravo win or die, Apr 10, 17:08:31
- well, in this case it was really (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Apr 10, 17:23:15
- I hope you're not implying that's how I've got all my jobs! (n/m) (General Chat) - Bravo win or die, Apr 10, 16:52:41
- not personally, but my place has been using Sonru for a while (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Apr 10, 16:12:52
- No but I have some good questions you could ask: (General Chat) - Bravo win or die, Apr 10, 15:51:51
- Oh I hadn't thought about asking it questions. I might do that for a laugh (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Apr 10, 16:16:07
- An ex colleague is their customer success director (General Chat) - camcan, Apr 10, 17:17:06
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