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“ I know myself way better than any interviewer possibly can. If you don't trust me to evaluate myself, then you shouldn't be hiring me into a creative, profess
by rileymat2 5y ago
“ I know myself way better than any interviewer possibly can. If you don't trust me to evaluate myself, then you shouldn't be hiring me into a creative, professional, self-directed position.”
I am not sure this is well grounded in the studies of human psychology.
- munk-a 5y agoI think it's extremely fair to not trust people to evaluate themselves when doing open hiring - for networked candidates you can usually relax some assumptions and for very senior/niche positions there's usually ample street knowledge available... but in these cases you're relying on a third party for some level of vetting. I would never solely trust a second party during hiring unless I had some method to confirm at least some of what they're saying. A lot of companies are far too hesitant to trust employees, but blind trust is unwise - you can end up with an employee that either wastes three months salary or actively causes damage.
- rileymat2 5y agoI think we may be talking about slightly different things. There is a ton of well researched psychology work on self deception, confirmation bias, it goes on and on. Asking about the things that the OP was mentioning are deep psychological traps. Perhaps the OP has deep self awareness, but that does not apply to the general candidate or human. Our blind spots of our own actions and behaviors are profound.