Recruitment Nightmare Week

[mickey house]

Originally Posted by windsor_hills

I’m about to start recruiting (again), to at least 10 roles and I’m dreading it…….

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Be grateful you are the interviewer and not the interviewee.

I used to find interviewing people quite boring especially when you knew early into the interview they weren’t the right person for the job but still had to go through the motions. That said they weren’t for high powered positions because the office cleaner was higher ranked than me.

[Tigger71]

I find setting up a 15 minute ”screening” interview helps selecting those candidates you truly want to interview. I then normally just take 3 max 4 from that shortlist. Saves my time and also is fairer to those candidates that wouldnt stand a chance.

[Mandij39]

Its not only you that's struggling to recruit, it's also tough on the youngsters who have just left college trying to find a job. My DD has applied for so many jobs, had countless interviews online, she just had another interview, it went well and they invited her in for another interview face to face. They kind of implied that she was successful, asked for her uniform size, name that she wanted on her name badge, asked for her to bring in passport, bank statement and proof of national insurance number for them to photocopy. And they said they'd be in touch with a start date. 4 Days later they emailed to say she wasn't successful that they'd had an overwhelming response to the position and offered it to someone else.

How fair is that? All these rejections are really knocking her confidence

[bonnies mum]

One of my sons interviewed for the same role on 3 different occasions. Each time he was called back to be told that he was in ideal candidate and they would have given him the job but that someone was already covering the vacancy and they had to get it (it was within the same organisation).
He was the told he would be recommended for another similar post which had not been advertised and he would definitely get it - he did but it was part-time so salary was a lot less. Not any good for someone with young children.

[Brewers]

Originally Posted by munmun

I am told, don't shoot the messenger, that if men fit 1/3 of the job description they apply. If women only fit 2/3 they don't apply. Not sure if this is true.

I agree, most are time wasters but, I'm sad you didn't consider the person who only wanted 3 days a week. Three days of a good person is worth 10 days of a chappy worker and the cost is lower. Better someone who is happy working part time than one that is grumpy working full time.

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I have just had to say no to a couple of our current staff who wanted to reduce hours, due to service need, I didn't think it would then be fair to employ someone part time.

[Brewers]

Originally Posted by mickey house

I have a 10 yard swimming certificate so would that get me either or both jobs?

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That is better than one of the candidates

[sully301]

We tend to weed out the people that don't tend to meet the essential criteria at application stage.

[Brewers]

Originally Posted by sully301

We tend to weed out the people that don't tend to meet the essential criteria at application stage.

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That's what I did.

[windsor_hills]

Originally Posted by mickey house

Be grateful you are the interviewer and not the interviewee.

I used to find interviewing people quite boring especially when you knew early into the interview they weren’t the right person for the job but still had to go through the motions. That said they weren’t for high powered positions because the office cleaner was higher ranked than me.

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Yes. I know it’s not easy on either side of the table having been on both in the last 7 months.

I think I am just interview fatigued….

[tfmay]

We are taking part in the Governments Kickstarter campaign to give 18-24 yr olds on universal credit via the job centre a 6 month paid placement for 25 hrs a week and we train them to essentially give them work skills etc to go to find work, ours is a trainee project assistant (local district council). we had 5 cv’s from interested applicants and we offered to interview them all……our interview requests were ignored and didn’t respond at all even when the coordinator tried to contact them, maybe they applied ‘to be seen to be applying’.

We finally got one who at interview wasn’t great but we thought let’s give them a chance, they are young and we can offer them the training and confidence to use the phone…..we were told ‘ I couldn’t possibly phone someone up, no, can’t do that’. it’s 25hrs a week and we offered to put them through a city & guilds training too……guess what, turned it down as couldn’t see how ‘they could possibly work 25 hrs week’ . They are 21, living at home and lived only 1 mile from the office and we have free parking etc, very accessible……..couldn’t believe it, missed opportunity in my view as were are expanding some of our services due to COVID and catching up on others like grant funding to vulnerable households and would be looking to taken on more roles in the next 12 months and I am sure if I did that when at home my parents would have had something to say and not sure I could even repeat it on here……just unbelievable.

We are now recruiting more staff and dread more interviews via Zoom in the forthcoming weeks….