The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade for young people

Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by ju-st on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @03:40PM (#10382944)

> I am not applying because working here is the most important thing to me, I am applying because there was an opening I might be qualified for and I was looking for a job.

Yep, I'm actually too scared to state the real reasons why I'm applying. I think HR will filter out my appplication when I write "your opening sounded somewhat interesting and I want to know more about the tasks I have to do when I work here".

Instead I just drop some additional keywords and bullshit into the obligatory "Why do you want to work here?" field. This approached worked so far.

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Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by marcosdumay on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @06:41PM (#10383971)

I sometimes wonder whether HR people that do that are so smart that they realize bullshiting is an important ability that must be selected for, or so stupid that they actually fall for the answers they get.

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Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by bsder on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @07:33PM (#10384168)

> so stupid that they actually fall for the answers they get.

This, mostly.

Never put HR on your engineering interview loops.

I actually recorded the statistics for our HR people on the loop to prove that they were random relative to the engineering assessments so I could get them kicked off the loop.

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