Interview: A first date
I just bounced into an article (just when I ran out of ideas for posts) and was skimming it until I came across an interesting section. I saw words such as love and romance and thought WTH! As I read it I empathized what the author was trying to say, that an interview is like a first date or a pre-date session :D. Not that I'v had any personal experience with either. I liked it even more as he concluded the paragraph mocking arranged marriage :p. Okie okie, here it is. Read this excerpt and enjoy ;).
ROTFL =)) he he ha ha. That is soooo true. You can talk your way into a job if the person likes you and no amount intelligence will help if he doesn't. Thats kinda how love/marriage works too doesn't it? (Am talking of the idealistic here, not where things go wrong badly.) What say people?Interview specialists have found it extraordinarily difficult to persuade most employers to adopt the structured interview. It just doesn't feel right. For most of us, hiring someone is essentially a romantic process, in which the job interview functions as a desexualized version of a date. We are looking for someone with whom we have a certain chemistry, even if the coupling that results ends in tears and the pursuer and the pursued turn out to have nothing in common. We want the unlimited promise of a love affair. The structured interview, by contrast, seems to offer only the dry logic and practicality of an arranged marriage.
Labels: Food for Thought, Humor
5 Comments:
its true
if u dont have chemistry with the person ure gonna work with u know its gonna be trouble - im known to screw up interviews with ppl i dont like - i act blur ;p
i dont care if im labelled that latter but i dont want the job so i shall do that ;p
n whenever i was interviewing ppl this was something i looked at as well - can this person get a long with me ;)
its all a game of love i tell ya ;p
O MY! Ivvalo explanation'a :-o. Adhellam true dhaan. But the highlight was the way in which it was written :). Thats what I enjoyed the most.
LOL true Samy :)
I u dun have chemistry and ur physics dun gel well, ur biology will suffer hahaha!
Keshi.
desexualized version of a date!- thats interesting. But i wonder how much interviewers look at an interview in this way.
@keshi: ur description was ha ha! ur brain is wired quite differently
@arpita: guess they just do it indavertently ... I guess not everyone wud ponder like u do
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