Saturday, May 10, 2025

[KS] (This actually goes for anywhere) 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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[KS] (This actually goes for anywhere) 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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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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[–][deleted] 14 points  

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[–]whataquokka 18 points  

How do they know anything about anybody else's hiring practices or decisions?

[–]ThunderFlaps420 15 points  

What on earth are you trying to say? Seriously, your post is incomprehensible gibberish.

[–]Next-Drummer-9280HR Manager, PHR 6 points  

Maybe try again, in actual coherent sentences, because this is practically unintelligible. Which might be an explanation for why you can’t get hired…

[–]Objective-Amount1379 9 points  

I took two years off to care for a family member. It never stopped me from getting multiple offers. It actually opened up some conversations with interviewers. Most people can relate to having an aging parent or sick loved one.

[–]livetostareatscreen 0 points  

Same here! I’m glad I spent time caring for my mother before she died, it’s the most meaningful thing I’ve ever done. I was nervous about having a gap but the search wasn’t very hard when it was time. Nobody cared all that much about it. If they did, I wouldn’t have wanted to work there anyway!

[–]SwankySteel 0 points  

You’re part of the problem if you’re not selecting candidates on the sole basis of you thinking a bad hiring manager would auto-reject them. It falls under the “i wAs jUsT fOlLowInG oRdErs” fallacy.

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