Secrets to getting a job, now

Straydog

I read it and it was the usual panicky gloom-and-doom drivel about the projected shortage.

And politicians wanting to be re-elected to office. The tactic is simple: create an enemy and portray oneself as the defender against it.

I agree with everything but lying on the CV.

I agree that questions like that are simply a loyalty test, though that loyalty is expected only from the employee.

Again, I disagree with saying something that isn't true.

Liberal use of appropriate jargon is encouraged as I doubt that most of the HR types conducting the interviews would know what one is talking about. However, in all the interviews I've had in recent years, I was seldom asked about my technical capabilities.

buttuming that anyone conducting the interview would properly recognize the terminology to begin with.

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Or one is brought in for an interview to justify hiring a less-qualified crony.

Sounds impressive and says absolutely nothing.

Some of them do this because the company regulations state that an open position has to be advertised, even though the final candidate has already been selected, and, perhaps, offered the position.

It wouldn't surprise me, though, if this is simply smoke and mirrors used to justify HR's existence.

I had an interview a few years ago with a firm where I did that. I'm sure I could have had a job there, but I gathered that HR found out that this went on and promptly gave their thumbs-down. I guess there's nothing like an internal turf fight, is there?

But if the company's not going to hire anyone from that stream of candidates, isn't the effort to gather all those CVs a waste of time?

So much for thinking "outside of the box".

That buttumes that one is familiar with what the positions actually entails. I've been in interviews where the job description was quite vague, so I often had to come up with a reasonable answer based on what I knew about it. Here I blame whoever was responsible for posting the ad for not being more specific.

On the other hand, I had an interview where the description of the position left out specific details and was never asked about them in the interview. I only found out that the outfit was looking for somebody with those capabilities when I was told I wasn't getting an offer.

Despite many years of work with C++ , and

The writer may be right about this. Several years ago, I was approached by a former student about acting as a reference for him, to which I agreed. I'm buttuming that he was diligent in searching for a job and may finally have found one, though I was never contacted about him.

Yup.

Further proof that HR departments of today can't think.

During the '80s, a lot of people who were out of work would put "consulting" on their CVs. Try that nowadays, and HR is afraid that one has a business on the side and would, therefore, not be fully devoted to the company.

Often, though, one company has a different standard than another one. Unfortunately, that standard is shrouded in secrecy.

One thing I learned from my earliest days of being on the dole is how to live well on very little.