OK, so clearly you get my overall opinion on this so-called "trick", but if your car really is super messy, then yeah, you probably aren't that organized or careful with your items. Hope you aren't applying for a job with security clearance - wouldn't want to lose that top secret file.
But some of these "tricks" are the exact reasons why I detest corporate culture. For example, watching what candidates do in the waiting room, or engaging in a bit of gossip? Yes, it's best to read that resume instead of playing Nintendo DS and it's better to not display your opinion, even if you agree with what your quizmaster is testing you on. But come on, this is like using your results from a Rorschach test to definitely assess what your personality is.
And finally, this lovely "trick" from the corporate candy bowl:
Many recruiters use meals as a screening tool. "I know a recruiter who passed over a candidate because of the way they cut their meat during a lunch interview," says Varelas. (The candidate cut his meat all at once, not one piece at a time.) Juliet Boghossian, a behavioral food expert and columnist for Food-ology.com, teaches execs what they can learn by the way someone eats.
Give me a fucking break. If you think someone is not qualified for a job because of the way they cut their steak, then you should really look in the mirror about how qualified you are to be in charge of HR at said company. It's not like the person is eating sloppily, he's simply cutting all of his meat into small pieces at once, which is actually more time efficient than one bite at time. You figure efficiency would be a quality a corporation would want...
Luckily for me, a university will hire me based on how much funding I receive from grants, the quality of my research, and to an extent, my teaching abilities. That's it. Yes, I understand that you have to be professional every step of the way, and I'm not at all advocated some kind of job seeker anarchy movement, but seriously, most of these rating criteria are absolute bullshit. What the fuck does how some one cuts their meat on their dinner plate have anything to do with how well they perform their job? If you answered "nothing", then you're probably just as disillusioned with corporate culture as I am.
You know what my response would be to the person who told me I wasn't hired because of how I cut my meat?
"I guess I should have ordered the soup then, you fucking jackass."
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For what it's worth, as an individual who spent 25 years in the restaurant industry, including 15 years a a waiter, the only person I ve ever seen anyone cut all their food at once prior to eating it was a young woman who was suffering from bulimia, an eating disorder.
I saw this in the cafeteria in the dorms during my freshman year at the University of Minnesota. This was back in the early 80's, when bulimia was truly epidemic in the student population, and chances are that she worked out her issues and went on to live a healthy productive life, but she was obviously not well at the time.
How we appraoch one of the fundamental acts of our existance, eating, is intensly personal and to a thoroughly trained observer could reveal much about our personalities. However, anyone who is having such trouble or is so inexperienced at judging job candidates as to resort to such arcane tactics obviously lacks the training, perspective, and basic understanding of the human animal and the corporate environment to be able to glean any valid conclusions from it.
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