Yet another amazing example of...

Myopic behavior. Called on a company that is about to hire their second certified sales associate from our company. He was not sure why we would need to get together since this last hire meant they were 'all set.'

Apparently he does not anticipate any attrition... and of course everyone he just hired will work out perfectly.

Unbelievable....

Psychotic interview candidate

I know the current economic environment is causing folks some stress but...

Last week we had someone call in 15 minutes before his interview looking for directions. In the process, he was rude to our receptionist. He showed up 15 minutes past his time slot and was irate when we told him the VP of HR had gone on to another next meeting.

He demanded to speak with our VP and said he wasn't leaving until he did. Not sure why but I assume he wanted to air his grievances.

We called security and had him thrown out of the building.

Interview No Shows

Here are the facts about interviews. If you schedule an interview on the same day, you will have a 95% show rate. Next day: 75% show rate. 50% of interviews show when scheduled two days out. Three days out nets a 25% show rate and interviews scheduled four or more days out are almost 100% no shows... Shocking but based on data from more than 8,900 applications we have processed in the last three years.

A New Approach

I have detemined that nobody reads anymore...at least they don't read antyhing longer than a snippet. So from now on I will limit my blog posts to what I can type on my blackberry.