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Oh fuck not this guy leaving containment and ending up on Lemmy of all places.

Ok so this guy is in my field and is 100% the grandpa he appears to be. The worst part thought is that if you catched this, he talked about a career in "I-O". Most of you probably don't know what he's talking about, but he's referring to the field of "Industrial and Organizational Psychology" which is the study of people within organizations. What makes this extra bad is that we actually are the ones who study stuff like "how to conduct ethical and high quality interviews". So he basically violated about everything we recommend in our field why doing this and publishing it. Its honestly embarrassing that this will be many of your first impressions of my profession.

Also the comments are roasting him so badly OP as the comments are likely filled with people who are experts in the subject, so its a deep roast

He had a pretty reasonable response to the backlash, at least.

Does this guy not understand that 99% of calls from unknown numbers are spam? If he picks the person who always answers, he's gonna be disappointed when they're spending more time answering spam calls than doing intern work.

Look he's managed to get a bunch of letters after his name so obviously he's very pleased with himself. And then it turns out that this is for a consulting company. It's like becoming super pleased with yourself because you become a shift manager at a call centre. That's not a life achievement worth bragging about.

I used to work in a marketing company and the number of "self-made" individuals (daddy's money had absolutely nothing to do with it, honest) spouting garbage like this was insufferable. Calm down Jeremy, you own one bed and breakfast hotel, you are not Jeff Bezos.

The most obvious issue with this is that most people aren't (or at least shouldn't be) always available for calls on their personal phones at random times during normal office hours. If you do it this way, you're pretty much pre-selecting for people who don't currently have a job and aren't in school/college.

Stupid sexy Landers

I wonder if this asshat enjoys all the scam calls he answers.

What does someone's personal life have to do with their work performance? Why does he want to get to know who they are "as a person" rather than know how they are qualified for the job? This has a bunch of red flags as far as I'm concerned

Narcissism abounds in every sentence.

"Startup consulting consortium"

Code for broke AF mid-life career-crisis.

startup consulting consortium

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I won't play phone tag with you

Plays phone tag with you

I love posts like this because they’re almost always from out-of-touch dickheads that I would never want to work for anyway. I don’t want to get laid off when you run your company into the ground, asshole.

Kinda cool that he would call directly. That’s pretty human compared to the usual robot and virtual assistant driven cattle calls. But it’s a bit too old school. he really should just leave a message. Or respond to the email to setup a call.

Because gone are the days that people build their lives around random phone calls. Most of the time, it’s considered rude to even take a call without escaping to some isolated location, especially if others could hear your phone ringing first. And of course if the number is unknown it’s most likely spam.

He either needs a time machine or needs to learn how phone calls work in the 21st century.

I don't think this is that bad.

A bit unorthodox, and old school, but unorthodox interviews aren't bad and neither are phone interviews.

The problem is that he didn't provide a number for people to add to their safe-callers list, so that they know it isn't spam when he calls.

Also, depending on the position, he needs to make sure that the call is not going to be in the middle of important meetings. He presumably doesn't want to hire people who take calls in the middle of client negotiations

I don’t know many millennials or younger who answer their cell phone. Most just let it roll to voice mail. If you want to talk to these folks why not just text them.

Crisis averted to those who did not answer.

Someone of his age and in his position should already know and demonstrate proper decorum, even with "modern technology" like .... voicemail? And acceptable procedure, like scheduling important calls. And having a bit of grace. Or a smidgen of empathy. Uh, how is he qualified to be President and CEO when he lacks anything necessary to be a leader?

Even in the best of interpretations, this is someone enormously out of touch. Even with the apology posted below, there's no way I could or would have confidence in this person's leadership. It's one thing to make a mistake, it's another to be so woefully out of touch with reality for so long that you literally didn't know that leaving voicemail is a normal thing people do and giving folks a heads up so they expect your call and can make themselves available for it is just good manners at a minimum.