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Off the top of my head, working in an emergency department of any major hospital is guaranteed to be filled with emotionally-difficult circumstances. Yet we don
by the_mar 3y ago
Off the top of my head, working in an emergency department of any major hospital is guaranteed to be filled with emotionally-difficult circumstances. Yet we don't ask doctors, nurses and technicians personally invasive questions to determine their ability to do their job.
For someone starting a job in an emergency department, having prior personal experiences with life or death situations is a very poor indicator of ability to handle that type of pressure in professional life. So why is that relevant to office jobs?
- em-bee 3y agowe don't ask doctors, nurses and technicians personally invasive questions to determine their ability to do their job because we can just ask them how they dealt with with emotionally-difficult work situations in the past. is there any work where that is not the case?
- the_mar 3y agoWhen it's your first job in the field? We still don't use personal experiences as shitty proxy for how you're able to handle work situations
- em-bee 3y agoright, but for someones first job i would also not expect any experience how to handle work situations at all. regardless of how i would be able to find out it seems a bit much to ask.
- the_mar 3y agothat's exactly the point I am trying to make? it's ok to ask about past professional experiences, it's not ok to ask personal questions about the past.