Saturday, May 10, 2025

How often do you know about an HR / hiring person saying "If those prior employers they applied to at had a problem with hiring them, why shouldn't we have that same problem?" How do those applicants get out of that catch-22?

 

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How often do you know about an HR / hiring person saying "If those prior employers they applied to at had a problem with hiring them, why shouldn't we have that same problem?" How do those applicants get out of that catch-22?

Does not getting hired by prior interviewers, and therefore taking longer to find a job, really cause the applicant to get stuck in a catch-22 of "If those prior employers they applied to had problems hiring them, I doubt we should hire them either because after all, why shouldn't we have those same problems?"

How do applicants who are successful landing their desired jobs later after taking a long time to do so, get out of that kind of a catch-22 anyhow?

 

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[–]Prize_Bass_5061 9 points  

No. Nobody thinks like this. You’re imagining a negative hypothetical so you can justify sitting on the couch and not taking action.

Here’s a scenario for you. You were hungry today, yet you drove past the McDonald’s and went to Chipotle instead. So did 1000 other people. They all passed on McDonalds and chose another restaurant. Therefore McDonalds isn’t a good restaurant because they didn’t get picked by 1000 people who had “problems” with the food. Therefore people shouldn’t go to McDonalds. Therefore McDonalds is stuck in a Catch-22. Therefore nobody will go to a McDonalds in the future. Therefore McDonalds needs to get out of this catch-22 otherwise they will be out of business by the end of the month.

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