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Escapee · 17-01-2005, 05:59

I have been involved in interviewing quite a few people over the last 18 months, I find that HR speak to the agencies and present a pile of CV's to us.
HR then get very annoyed when we say none of them are suitable, as far as HR are concerned the person has (claims to have) all the skills we require for the job and the agency has enough faith to put them forward.

Larger companies often accept information on CV's at face value, very often the manager condusting the interviews doesn't know his a**e from his elbow when it comes to the job in question anyway. the guy who gets the job then is often the one who sounds like he knows it all.

We interviewed an ex-ntl guy before christmas, his CV gave the impression that he had formally worked on ntl's network and spent some time in the headend. I didn't let on that I userd to work for ntl and started asking questions to see what he actually knew, it soon came clear to me that he had never been near the network and was more than likely in some fault management role. It was interesting however to get the view of my boss after the interview, as he said "That guy seems to know his stuff"

The guy was very convincing, and to someone who couldn't take is answers on anything other than face value he appeared to know what he was talking about.

So D****n, if your reading this sorry but BS doesn't work!

17-01-2005, 05:59	#4
Escapee Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: This Planet Posts: 4,028	Re: the job is yours! I have been involved in interviewing quite a few people over the last 18 months, I find that HR speak to the agencies and present a pile of CV's to us. HR then get very annoyed when we say none of them are suitable, as far as HR are concerned the person has (claims to have) all the skills we require for the job and the agency has enough faith to put them forward. Larger companies often accept information on CV's at face value, very often the manager condusting the interviews doesn't know his ae from his elbow when it comes to the job in question anyway. the guy who gets the job then is often the one who sounds like he knows it all. We interviewed an ex-ntl guy before christmas, his CV gave the impression that he had formally worked on ntl's network and spent some time in the headend. I didn't let on that I userd to work for ntl and started asking questions to see what he actually knew, it soon came clear to me that he had never been near the network and was more than likely in some fault management role. It was interesting however to get the view of my boss after the interview, as he said "That guy seems to know his stuff" The guy was very convincing, and to someone who couldn't take is answers on anything other than face value he appeared to know what he was talking about. So D**n, if your reading this sorry but BS doesn't work!