Hey, I’m an investment advisor. I suggested to my friend Lara that she enroll in her employer’s 401(k) plan, and she did.
I’m the CEO of a company, too, at least whenever someone asks me to take some photos for them. Which hasn’t happened in more than a year, but still.
Anyway, no, don’t think I’d hire him. The jobs I have to offer don’t require ballroom dancing, skiing or brick-breaking. I suppose the weight-lifting ability could come in handy, but even there we don’t have anything over about fifty pounds that needs to be hand-carried.
Can he write geological descriptions of drill cuttings? His video neglects to say.
Would I hire him?
No. He has no nunchuck skills.
I’ll only hire him if he can pass my “walk on hot lava” test.
This is the shortened version. In the original, he explains how he has to tie his dong in a knot to keep from treading on it.
Then he demonstrates.
I wouldn’t hire him. He comes across like a total douchebag.
If he’s so capable of doing whatever he puts his mind to, why would he need a job with my company? Such a self-made man should be able to go out and dazzle the world with his initiative and abilities without resorting to punching a clock working for da man.
Can you imagine being stuck on a group project with this man?
I experienced that a few times - I worked at a top management consulting firm that regularly hired folks like him out of business schools like Harvard, Stanford, etc. We usually weeded out his type during the interview process - “when you say ‘astronaut’ just how many flights have you been on?” - but occasionally they got hired. Not pretty - especially when there was a deadline and their manager had no patience for fools, even well-educated ones…
As for the movie - ew. And while nitpicking the film is more than a little pointless, does it really look like he is serving a tennis ball at 140mph? When big guns do it at pro tennis matches, the explosiveness is obvious on the screen…
Here is a link to the Ivygate archives on this guy. I had quite a bit of fun the other day reading through this fellow’s various whoppers. What a doofus!
I thought the video credits at the end were going to include “This is a Spike Lee joint” a la Michael Scott. The “In memory of (whoever)” was almost as good.
I also work at a management consulting / financial services firm where I happen to do a lot of the hiring for our group. Generally I like to receive all resumes in a standard 11 page format accompanied by a 7 minute video.
Generally, we like candidates who focus more on their bench pressing and ballroom dancing than their public speaking skills.
Could Mr. Vayner be any vayner?
He took a nice skewering from Keith Olbermann on Countdown Monday night.
Who are you with? I did strategy work at Accenture. Send me a regular email if you don’t want to post the name on the SDMB…
I did a ton of hiring, too - my favorite (actually I hated having interviews with folks like this - it is not fun calling people out on their resumes) usually related to music. I have had so many people list “jazz” under their interests section but when I ask them who they like, they can’t name anyone. I also got into a discussion with a guy who claimed to play guitar and cited liking Metallica, but didn’t know who Kirk Hammett was (hint: Metallica lead guitarist…I didn’t move him forward, for some reason).
I don’t really give personal info out. For one, I don’t want crazy internet people tracking me down and two, I wouldn’t want someone I work with to figure out it was me complaining about work.
I’ll tell you I’ve worked with a couple different firms including one of the Big-4 and an “internet strategy” firm in Boston back in the 90s. I’m at a smaller firm now that specializes in fixing messed up companies. I used to know a ton of Accenture folks though a few years back. A bunch of my fraternity brothers worked for Accenture (Andersen Consulting at the time) out of college and we all had a big shore house with all their AC friends.
I usually don’t hire douchebag guys with poor social skills but with a lot of useless achievements. You won the ironman competition? Great. What the fuck does that do for our company? I don’t need someone with superhuman physical stamina who can’t create an Excel pivot table.
What I can’t figure out is when I worked at that company in Boston, they would hire all these “well rounded” people from Harvard and MIT and wherever who were all into all kinds of strange activities - martial arts, dragon boat racing, olypic skiing, etc. They then work them 100 hours a week so they have no time for anything else and thus turning them into the kind of people they didn’t want to hire in the first place.
I’d like to see Vayner get into a fight with this guy.