Well, that was a bold try

"themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles" (themanwithsauce) 12/12/2019 at 11:06 • Filed to: None

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We’re hiring for an entry level position and sent out to all online applicants that they need to fill out a slightly detailed application form either on our website or in person (takes like 5 minutes). Someone showed up and kept buggingthe front office that he had spoken to me on the phone and I had definitely signed him up for an interview......which I didn’t.

Is this a new tactic? Just show up at a place and name drop someone higher up that they asked for an interview? It didn’t work, for the record, and we threw out his resume. Don’t lie.

Aremmes > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 12/12/2019 at 11:11

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It might seem new, but it’s just a form of “fake it ‘til you make it”. It’ll obviously not work everywhere, but sooner or later it’ll pay off . Unfortunately.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 12/12/2019 at 11:11

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Reminds me of Shia LeBeouf being proud that he clinched his first acting gig by lying to the other applicants that he’d gotten it and scaring them off . Totally fine and ethical because it meant he “wanted it more”. Uhhhh.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 12/12/2019 at 11:12

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I’ve had people walk into the office cold even if we don’t have a hire out. No outright lies tho. Red flag. 

Textured Soy Protein > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 12/12/2019 at 11:13

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Showing up at any business with a resume in hand without them having previously invited you to show up is generally frowned upon, unless we’re talking retail type businesses where they want that sort of activity.

Trying to gaslight the receptionist into thinking that someone at the company has already requested an interview strikes me as someone thinking that showing up in person is a good tactic in general. 

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 12/12/2019 at 11:17

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Yes, one of those click bait HR secrets “news” stories had that in it a month or two ago. I think I saw it on LinkedIn. The comments on the article were yeah don’t do this but those comments are by the MAN trying to keep you down

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 12/12/2019 at 11:17

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Yeah, and we always accept applications and resumes. Online, you just submit a resume and we send the application as a follow-up. He didn’t even do that, he just got the follow-up and showed up in person saying I offered an interview.

boredalways > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 12/12/2019 at 11:22

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That's is so dumb that you should have someone contact that person's mom on Facebook and ask her to tell her child to not do that ever again in a professional environment.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Textured Soy Protein 12/12/2019 at 11:23

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not true, I went in to a business never having spoken to them. I didn’ t ask for an interview, only handed over a resume. The owner was impressed I had the courage to do that and offered an interview on the spot. Lying is the big no- no

Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 12/12/2019 at 11:32

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Well who can blame him for saying he knows the man with the sauce.

Textured Soy Protein > OPPOsaurus WRX 12/12/2019 at 11:36

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I should add smaller businesses without less-than-fully formal hiring process to the exception list.

I can tell you that in any of the medium/ large companies where I’ve been a recruiter or am now in charge of recruiting at my current job, generally folks showing up with resume in hand is viewed as weird, because it puts us on the spot.

For the most part, we want people to apply online so we have the opportunity to review their resume and decide if there’s enough on the resume for us to be interested. From there, someone in recruiting, not the hiring team, does an initial phone interview to get more detail. And then the hiring team reads the notes from that phone interview and decides if it’s worth an in-person interview.

If someone shows up on the spot, we can’t do all that vetting while they’re standing in our face, and now we have a physical resume that isn’t in the recruiting database, with no profile for that person. It all would’ve been easier for us if they skipped the showing up on our doorstep and just applied online like everyone else.

Calling or emailing a company to follow up on an application you’ve submitted online is similarly annoying to employers and doesn’t help your case.

So unless it’s a smaller company where they’re more flying by the seat of their pants with hiring, the way hiring works at most companies, as someone looking for a job, your best bet is to just apply online, immediately forget about the job, move on with your life, assume you’ll never hear back from the company about your application,  and be pleasantly surprised if you do.

DipodomysDeserti > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/12/2019 at 12:11

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He wanted it more because he was being raised by a single mom who almost couldn’t afford to feed him.

Urambo Tauro > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 12/12/2019 at 12:17

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Lying. Way to make a first impression.. . :P

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > DipodomysDeserti 12/12/2019 at 12:33

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Yes, but. One can frankly talk about what one “had to do”, and one can also say “yes I did that thing and it was awesome”. Which are slightly different.

DipodomysDeserti > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/12/2019 at 12:40

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But if what you did w as awesome, then you should own it.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 12/12/2019 at 13:10

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I’ve never had that happen, but for entry level hiring in the archives I always threw out a simple, specific instruction of some kind to anyone I was going to interview. Anyone who didn’t follow it, even if they showed initiative in how they went around it, was automatically thrown out of further consideration. We didn’t expect anyone to know anything about libraries or archives when we hired them for student jobs, but the ability to follow directions explicitly was critical to them not screwing things up for us down the road.

Thisismydisplayname > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 12/12/2019 at 14:51

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Our instructor did that to us during a mock project bid assignment. We were teamed up and had 4-5 teams, each in different rooms. He’d then send out fake addendums for us to deal with. One of the late ones modified a good chunk of the bid form and most the groups missed it. He summarily discarded our bids after the 8 hour exercise... but then he let us be reconsidered because it was a learning experience. And from then on, definitely took better care to read and follow directions.