Advice from Old PeopleSometimes, just sometimes, old people say something worth listening to. Ok, so it's like picking the needle out of a whole haystack of mis-remembered war stories, but those gems should be celebrated.
Tell us something worthwhile an old-type person has told you.
Note, we're leaving the definition of old up to you, you smooth-skinned youngsters.
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chthonic, Thu 19 Jun 2008, 16:16)
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Good Advice.
"Never trust a man who doesn't drink. They're hiding something."
Sage advice and something I abide by. But I don't take it as far as some.
There's an R&D company, who I did some work for, who take this advice to the extreme.
As they're a small company they're very picky about who they'll employ. Apart from having the appropriate skills you also have to fit in with the team. In a small company, you can't have people working there who don't fit in with the company culture. So their recruitment technique is a little bizzare.
First, they sort through the CV's and dump the obvious no-hopers. Then they interview the rest. After the first interview, between two and four will be asked back for a second interview, all on different days and all at 5pm. But the second interviews are held in the company's local pub. And most of the staff at the company turn up. The candidates are asked not to bring their cars, as drinking will be involved, and are told that the company will send them home in a taxi.
Anyone who refuses to drink, pint for pint, with the staff are automatically binned. Anyone who turns into a total tit are also binned. As are beer-monsters.
The idea is to get the candidate relaxed in an informal setting and to find out more about the kind of person they are - to see if they'll fit in with the team.
Seems to work though. They've had very few problems with recruiting unsuitable people.
Cheers
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 20 Jun 2008, 12:03,
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Another top tipLook at the space between the candidates' eyebrows. Is there a single vertical crease there? If so, don't hire them. That crease is invariably a sign that the person is self-centered and moody.
I have no idea why that's true, but it is.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 20 Jun 2008, 12:59,
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On RecruitingAnd I know I've mentioned this before but you should shuffle all of the CV's before reading them, half them into two piles, and bin one pile.
"So you don't employ any unlucky people..."
Cheers
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 20 Jun 2008, 13:12,
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That's ridiculousI don't drink because I can't be bothered as I have never particularly gotten into the habit and don't much like the taste or the idea of being drunk. Doesn't mean I can't work hard. Bloody discrimination if you ask me.
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