Feeling smug about this

[Rapscallion]

We've just had a round of recruitment at work. It's a two-stage process with a group stage and a final face-to-face interview. The group stage involves the potential members effectively getting a chance to interview the company, but we select promising people from the groups to go on to the second stage.

Two guy from the casual workers have been through this two times already and haven't got very far. They're hard workers, but not very good at interviews. Another lad - R - was crapping himself over this stage, even though it's good fun and it was his first time.

I did a little training. All three found out today that they'd got through to the second stage! I'm decidedly happy over that.

Of course, they're going to get hints about the second one, but I'd be more than happy to give a few hints about that as well.

R amused me. He was panicking after his group stage interview. There had been two women in his group who kept trying to take over, and they had polarised views. He kept trying to get everyone's views, but they just kept ignoring him. He was convinced he would fail because of them, but instead he passed for the exact same reason. What got me is his report of how the interviewers announced at the very end that "As you may have realised, this is a team-building exercise," and most of them in the group looked rather sick at that point.

I love being in a different sort of company. Most people thought they were competing against the others in the group - instead, they could all have made it through to the second stage if they had cooperated.

Rapscallion

[Boozy]

I love being in a different sort of company. Most people thought they were competing against the others in the group - instead, they could all have made it through to the second stage if they had cooperated.


A lot of companies pay lip service to the idea of teamwork, but do nothing to actually encourage it in practice. Promotions often go to those who engage in cut throat behaviour. How nice that your company does it in exactly the opposite way! I'll bet it makes for a great work environment.

[Bella_Vixen]

Raps, will you guys be opening a branch here anytime soon? I highly recommend the West Allis/Milwaukee area. :wave:

[Rapscallion]

Two of the guys got through. One had pissed in his own bed for this by getting a warning for an unexplained absence (called in sick and was found in the pub after being there all day) and that was held against him for some unaccountable reason.

I feel good about those two. One was on his first time and could have done it without my help if he wasn't stressed over the whole thing. The other had tried several times and is of advancing maturity - he's a hard worker, but not really any good at interviews. He's also going to be on his own after this, as much as you can be in a cooperative, but I've helped him to have a chance.

As for opening a branch over there? Heh - we only have one warehouse in the UK, whereas common sense would tell us to have a satellite warehouse down south where we're expanding. The problem is that we're a worker's coop and we'd be unable to maintain our nature if we did that.

Still, you could come over here and apply. Work a few years, save up, and return with the current awesome exchange rate under your belt. You could even get to groom my beard on occasion as well!

Rapscallion

[Bella_Vixen]

Sounds like an idea.