{"id":53,"date":"2008-10-03T21:45:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T02:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonybeshara.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2008-10-03T21:45:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T02:45:49","slug":"so-life-and-interviewing-are-unfair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonybeshara.com\/blog\/so-life-and-interviewing-are-unfair\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;so, life and interviewing are unfair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storycontent\">..interviewing and hiring are staged, contrived events\u2026they aren\u2019t reality\u2026but, like churchill said about democracy, it\u2019s the worst form of government after all the others have been tried..<\/p>\n<p>candidates complain that hiring authorities ask very unfair questions, that have nothing to do with the job (i.e. \u201cwhy are manholes round?\u201d\u2026\u201dwhat is one thing about you, you don\u2019t want me to know?\u201d) \u2026and employers get hung up on one or two answers that aren\u2019t the way <em>they<\/em> would answer the question..(i.e. define \u201cconsultative selling\u201d)\u2026<\/p>\n<p>we have seen candidates and hiring authorities get hung up on the smallest, most silly things that really have nothing to do with a candidates ability to do the job or the quality of a job opportunity\u2026<\/p>\n<p>no sense in getting mad or disappointed about things like this\u2026when they happen, the situations <em>are<\/em>  unfair\u2026not right\u2026just <em>unfair<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>but, so is life\u2026get over it and move on\u2026you\u2019ll hardly ever rectify or change the situation\u2026accept what you may not understand \u2026move on..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..interviewing and hiring are staged, contrived events\u2026they aren\u2019t reality\u2026but, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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