being on the other side of the table
Sep. 4th, 2014 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eorTonight I'm reading resumes. I've been selected for two hiring panels, one starts interviews on Monday.
I take the task very seriously. I feel like finding the best possible fit is in the "most important thing you can do all year" category. Getting someone who isn't the best fit is disastrous for them and for everyone else. It's tough to try to intuit all kinds of traits from a cover, resume and interview. The hires from my last to panels are great team members and all around great humans. (Which may be why my name ended up on more hiring panels.) I hope my luck can hold for two more.
The resumes that aren't even close are easy to decide on, but I feel for the people behind them. They apply for jobs that aren't even close to what they can do because they're desperate. That sucks.
I take the task very seriously. I feel like finding the best possible fit is in the "most important thing you can do all year" category. Getting someone who isn't the best fit is disastrous for them and for everyone else. It's tough to try to intuit all kinds of traits from a cover, resume and interview. The hires from my last to panels are great team members and all around great humans. (Which may be why my name ended up on more hiring panels.) I hope my luck can hold for two more.
The resumes that aren't even close are easy to decide on, but I feel for the people behind them. They apply for jobs that aren't even close to what they can do because they're desperate. That sucks.
