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It's probably also selecting for people who are unemployed and therefore much more able to attend the entire gauntlet than those already employed.

swader999 5y ago
How would this really be possible while currently employed, kids, real deliverables?
- sgtnoodle 5y ago
  To some extent, perhaps it's analogous to poor vs. rich people buying boots. Someone living paycheck to paycheck can only afford cheap boots, so they wear out quickly. Someone with money to spare can afford the high quality boots, and they last years. Similarly, someone with a flexible, relatively good job is more easily able to look around and find an even better opportunity. On the other hand, it takes some courage and risk tolerance to step out from the day to day grind and find something better, even if it could ruffle some feathers. That's not something that comes naturally to most people. Break some eggs to make an omelette.
hirako2000 5y ago
I would think the opposite is more likely.If you are employed, there is no pressure. You may go through 12 interviews for a 12 different jobs and be only so slightly offended. For the unemployed, time is most likely ticking, if not financially, at least emotionally. A relative slowness at any step of the process affects the unemployed mindset. Stress alone lowers interview performance, especially on the soft skills side. I would guess that more people in the employed pool make it through.
- rascul 5y ago
  If you're employed it's more likely you don't have time for 12 interviews because you're working.
  - gcheong 5y ago
    True but being employed goes a long way to giving the perception that you are employable so in the cases that the decision is a toss-up between an unemployed person and an employed one I’d be willing to bet the employed one wins almost every time.
    - smaudet 5y ago
      So what its a circle jerk of people putting up with BS, then going through BS again because they did so well the first time? I mean, maybe their other job isn't doing great, because they clearly have all this time to interview, wonder what is going to happen when they join your company...
    - hirako2000 5y ago
      exactly my point, well said for me :)
  - hirako2000 5y ago
    You do have time. those interviews are scattered across multiple weeks, if you work place doesn't let you take a couple of hours of working hours away for personal matters, you got to quit even before having a lined up job as you don't want to stay there for far more important reasons than inability to take even 5 interviews
- H1Supreme 5y ago
  There might not be pressure, but you have to schedule time away from your current job to take interviews.

swader999 5y ago

How would this really be possible while currently employed, kids, real deliverables?

sgtnoodle 5y ago
To some extent, perhaps it's analogous to poor vs. rich people buying boots. Someone living paycheck to paycheck can only afford cheap boots, so they wear out quickly. Someone with money to spare can afford the high quality boots, and they last years. Similarly, someone with a flexible, relatively good job is more easily able to look around and find an even better opportunity. On the other hand, it takes some courage and risk tolerance to step out from the day to day grind and find something better, even if it could ruffle some feathers. That's not something that comes naturally to most people. Break some eggs to make an omelette.

hirako2000 5y ago

I would think the opposite is more likely.If you are employed, there is no pressure. You may go through 12 interviews for a 12 different jobs and be only so slightly offended. For the unemployed, time is most likely ticking, if not financially, at least emotionally. A relative slowness at any step of the process affects the unemployed mindset. Stress alone lowers interview performance, especially on the soft skills side. I would guess that more people in the employed pool make it through.

rascul 5y ago
If you're employed it's more likely you don't have time for 12 interviews because you're working.
- gcheong 5y ago
  True but being employed goes a long way to giving the perception that you are employable so in the cases that the decision is a toss-up between an unemployed person and an employed one I’d be willing to bet the employed one wins almost every time.
  - smaudet 5y ago
    So what its a circle jerk of people putting up with BS, then going through BS again because they did so well the first time? I mean, maybe their other job isn't doing great, because they clearly have all this time to interview, wonder what is going to happen when they join your company...
  - hirako2000 5y ago
    exactly my point, well said for me :)
- hirako2000 5y ago
  You do have time. those interviews are scattered across multiple weeks, if you work place doesn't let you take a couple of hours of working hours away for personal matters, you got to quit even before having a lined up job as you don't want to stay there for far more important reasons than inability to take even 5 interviews
H1Supreme 5y ago
There might not be pressure, but you have to schedule time away from your current job to take interviews.