Questions and Answers
Aug31
on 08/31/2017
at 12:01 am
Team “Job Offer” at work… will they schedule a second interview?
Randie and Ryan
Tripping through married life…
Team “Job Offer” at work… will they schedule a second interview?
Don’t you just love the “personal touch” in the modern-day job market?
RN… I see this as a way to weed out the “obvious” Nopes, as impersonal as it may seem… This is A screening, if you will. Not every prospect will be worth the time, effort and money that it takes to interview and if your interviewee is in another city, it becomes a valuable tool.
But yes, it is still, impersonal.
I like how ‘What skills do you bring’ is one of the last things asked. Sigh! Honestly, I don’t like technology like this but I see the value. It broadens your scope when searching for potential assets and lets you weed out the obvious disasters, but it has weak points. I’ve seen people set up a huge song and dance for these interviews and sucker the people on the other end, because there’s not as much body language to read and there’s no physical proximity to pick up nonvisual and nonaudio cues. Still, it can help avoid a train wreck….. from both ends.
Technology is a tool. Sometimes we rely too heavily on certain aspects of the benefits… I tend to not use the tools of technology to the maximum benefit… even though it would certainly help me. I am not sure why this is.
Anyhow.
Just traditionalist a bit? That’s why I don’t. I’m very much of the ‘talk face to face’ variety.
“Benefits are something we’re working on…” Sounds pretty sketchy to me.
They ain’t got it all worked out yet. We are seeing this start-up in the early stages… we’ll see more of that in the future pages … where Ryan is in on the ground floor. But yah, I can tell you that what Ry&Ran have now, as far as benefits go, is pretty low on the totem.
It’s a startup, which means there are risks such as poorly-defined benefits. But with the risk comes the potential of reward. It also adds greater proportional value to your efforts. Your work – or lack of work – can be the factor that makes or breaks a venture. That kind of pressure is an absolute perk to some and an absolute deal-breaker to others.
I’ve a hunch this will appeal to Ryan and terrify Randie. I have additional hunches, but I’ve learned not to speculate too much. 🙂
Indeed. And Ryan is quite excited about a new creative venture that has more to offer than his current situation. It’s funny how when you aren’t that stable, you tend to take more risks because, hey…. what have you got to lose? Of course, he does have another person to consider. We’ll see how that plays out.
And yet, there are people who think this is the only way to go, no personal interaction if at all possible. I think that tends to be the geeks who have never had much personal interaction at all. I know on job interviews I was deciding how much I wanted to be involved with a company, even when I was as desperate as Ryan, and with kids to consider! I made some bad job choices that looked good at first, but you gotta eat.
It’s funny how some people who grew up with computer game playing interaction with less playing with other kids outside interaction have different ideas about how to interact with humans in general. My generation was probably the last one to experience the outdoors. The late 70’s brought the arcade experience and then ushered in the home gaming systems… and then it seemed to spiral after that. I dunno… everything in moderation. For some parents & kids, home video game systems were an easy babysitter… and there was the problem. Okay, off the soapbox.
Ugh, facetime interviews…the worst.
I’ve not done one… but I sort of eavesdropped on Nelson’s… (I was in the office next door and could hear).