That has to be some silly arbitrary quota thing, like they need 5 interviewees from in house per position before they can outsource it or something.
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I know some companies will line up a bunch of interviews they have no intention of hiring, but use it as free training for new interviewers/hiring managers/HR people to practice on.
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āNot a good fit for our workplace cultureā
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I donāt really understand why interviews are the method used for internal candidates. They are actually fairly poor for determining how well a candidate fits a job. For external, there arenāt really other good options. But for internal candidates, you should already know if they are a good fit.
Which I guess is why itās silly that they ask you to interview and then donāt give you the job. The interview should be a formality at that point as they should have good information about your fit that should overrule anything that happens in the interview short of you deciding to curse out the hiring manager and sexually harass the HR lady.
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If the interviewers donāt have the final say with regard to hiring because it needs to get final approval from someone in HR, who has zero idea about what the actual job entails, this is what ends up happening. It can become awkward when you are working somewhere and interview and then some external candidate gets the job and you ask the people who interviewed you, who youāve worked with and who wanted you to get the job, āHow did this guy get hired over me?ā and they just shake their heads.
Iām glad Iāve never worked in a company where HR could overrule the hiring manager. Of course, it often comes down to the application of soft power that various individuals in an organization possess in various degrees.
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Iām just going to identify as a female for all future job applications.
Yes, hi, Iām Andrewina (xher/xhers)
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I aināt hiring you unless youāre pretty.
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Identify as transmasculine. Itāll check more boxes and freak people out more.
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Porn name: Andrewconda.
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Iām not entirely sure i qualify for that handle 
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Well, I AM familiar with the opposite, which happens quite often. At my company, theyāll post a job on the internal company intranet, usually already having someone(or two or three) in mind internally they want to fill the position, BUT they will also post the position to LinkedIn, job websites, etcā¦ But I asked around about this in my company and was told that they legally have to post a position externally, to say they made it available to ALL public candidates, but they just never call any of the external/public people from the millions of resumes they receive.
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I forgot to add the ironic partā¦how did I get hired at that same company/my company I currently work atā¦? I saw a posting for an open position, which was a perfect fit for what I normally do, on LinkedIn! I just hit the apply button and thought āwhat the hell, why not?ā but placed zero faith in it, but shockingly I received a phone call the next day asking if I had availability to come in and interview! I guess my point in saying this is, you canāt even begin to āgetā the job if you donāt apply for it. Itās like the old saying [which Iāve found is actually true] āyou have to cast A LOT of nets when youāre fishing to better increase your oddsā.
So to those out there looking, DO keep applying on as many different websites/platforms as possible. Some of those external postings actually turn out to be legit opportunities.
Yeah. A company my wife worked for used indeed, and I guess it was a paid service of theirs, to send all applications that fit a certain criteria straight to them, including location and proximity to public transportation.
At one place I worked they used an industrial staffing company that was legit. It was nice until some big project opened in the Utica Shale play, and those dudes bolted like it was the Exodus! Dudes just looking at their texts, then dropping their tools and heading straight for the door!
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This is common practice. Itās bullshit and itās important to note that teachers did not come up with this yet, teachers always get scapegoated. This is the work of parents, boards of ed, administrators and education activists.
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So you get a āpassā for doing nothing with a score of 50ā¦? The mind boggles.
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Because the emphasis is on grades for gradesā sake, not learning. Admin cares about numbers and stats while teachers care about the human beings in front of them. You have activists who want equity, on paper (test scores, grades, etc.), regardless of how it will play out in the real world.
Years ago I did literacy tutoring with a guy whoād graduated high school, but couldnāt read words like ācatā and āhat.ā
The whole thing was a complete failure, about which I still feel sad/guilty. He was a nice guy and did want to try (though was pushed to do it by his gf), but Iām white and was raised in the northeast, while he was an inner city black guy from Austin, TX. Our accents and speech patterns were so different, distinguishing āpinā from āpenā seemed impossible. The one-day literacy tutoring class Iād done wasnāt enough to figure out how to bridge the gap. Heartbreaking.