Damn it, I knew I spelled that wrong! I don’t have spell check set up on my IE right now!
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She never said that those were the actual criteria. Believe it or not, it’s fairly common for someone who has a position to fill have an idea of what his or her “ideal candidate” would be. That doesn’t mean that is the only person who would ever be hired.
When we were hiring for an open position in my department, we thought it would be great to have someone who was not a white female, because my coworker and I are both white females and we felt it would be better to diversify.
Turns out that the most qualified of all the interviewees was a white female. We hired her.
Well yes, but where’s the recreational outrage in that??
Feel free to point out where I said the people in the o-post would only consider hiring their “ideal candidate.”
The OP - her words, not mine - posted: We’ve determined that ‘Ideal Candidate’ is either a young gal with limited experience, just out of secretarial college (yah, I know that’s not what they call it anymore, but you all know what I mean) or an older lady with lots of experience who’s looking to wind down her working career.
Note she wrote that they “determined” the ideal candidate “is” … not “we thought it would be great” or “we considered that” the ideal candidate “probably is,” or “could be,” or “is likely to be,” or some other thing that smacks less of “criteria” and more of “who we hope to hire.” A thousand pardons if determined + is could not possibly be understood to mean “criteria.”
More importantly though, a description of an ideal candidate is a description of who an employer thinks is someone they want to interview, and possibly hire.
In cases where the employer has an “ideal” in mind, but that information appears no where in the job posting (often because their “ideal” reflects illegally discriminatory “determinations”), there will be applicants who believe they meet the qualifications for the position, but have no idea that they could never meet the hidden “ideal.”
Hence, in situations where employers do not state who meets their “ideal” - regardless of whether the “ideal” person has mad calendaring skillz or types 90wpm a has a penis or has freckles - they will hear from “too many” people they do not consider to be “ideal.”
This is not the applicants’ fault. It also ain’t rocket science.
Of course people looking to fill a position often have an ideal candidate in mind.
That’s how they often run afoul of employment discrimination laws. It’s also how they often shoot themselves in the foot if they give more weight to their preconceptions about age, gender, ethnicity, etc than they do to the skills and talents of the individuals in the applicant pool. Please note I haven’t said anything about that being the case here. I’m sure they will hire “the best” applicant.
Ask not was the company can do for you - ask was you can do for the company. :rolleyes:
Well, yah. Why does this get a rolleyes? Because you don’t like that employers want to choose the candidate with the most to offer?
Do you not think an candidate with multiple job offers would evaluate them all and choose the one that was best?
Good grief some of the comments in this thread are bizarre.
What does ‘web page experience’ mean?
{Morpheus from Matrix}You thought there was only one typo in your post? Interesting.{/MfM}
I think it means that you have an idea of updating webpages, perhaps through Joomla or Drupal or possibly Frontpage, but it sounds like it means you’ve opened a browser once or twice.
Yep - if the person can use the internet, that’s good. If they can tart up a webpage, that’s better.
..pored over…
just sayin’
I agree completely. I’ve done many stints in HR doing just what you’re talking about. Though I have to admit, the handwritten letter from the guy in a third world country who described his life working in a shoe factory really got to us, misspellings or no we all wanted to adopt him!
Generally speaking, yes.
Did anyone besides me see this:
and then start counting the errors? (there were plenty, but I won’t proof it for you, after all, you won’t be paying me… Damn, I’m glad I don’t work for you.)
Yes, me too.
I guess that makes two of us…
So this flexible spending account can be used to buy pretty much anything the employee wants. How is that different from regular pay?
Regular pay folds, and fits in your pocket. And it’s Canada, so it’s colourful and pretty…
(although our Merkin money is starting to look good, these days. We still have a way to go, though, 'til ours is as pretty as theirs.)
Wait, there’s a flexible spending account AND a merkin allowance?
I saw a fabulous one claiming to be the IT manager for a small amusement park I used to work at, supervising a team of 5 technicians, during the time I worked there…
There was no IT department, there were like 4 computers in the whole place at the time.