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It would be cool if the industry let us play "Confident Applicant's Gambit": I will agree to work for you, dubious but reputable employer, for six weeks to prov
by digitalsushi 7y ago
It would be cool if the industry let us play "Confident Applicant's Gambit": I will agree to work for you, dubious but reputable employer, for six weeks to prove my mettle.
At the end of the six weeks, we part ways unless I have clearly demonstrated I am in fact, the genuine article, at which point you owe me back pay, and commence my salary which is about 140% of what you would normally pay someone. Quite a bargain for you.
The intention of this being, the employer is not at risk for slave labor, but the applicant is clearly wasting their time if they know they are not genuinely solving a problem the employer has for the given salary.
- loopz 7y agoJust hire temps and maybe extend contract. Already overdone and creates helluva toxic and abusive env.
- tatersolid 7y agoUnfortunately temp-or-contract-to-hire is automatically the bottom 1/3 of available people. A CHRO thought this was a brilliant solution to the six-month searches those silly people in IT kept complaining about. Been there, done that, it doesn’t work in practice. We had to unwind nearly all of them after a few weeks, and all the on boarding wasted copious amounts of time for existing staff.
- k__ 7y agoIn Germany we have a probation period of 6 months in which both partys can resign at any time, no questions asked.