Regularguy, I FULLY UNDERSTAND YOUR POINT, but;
Originally Posted by
Regularguy
Oldmako
I think on this you are living in a dream world. Yes it would be nice that only the “most” qualified get the job, but the problem is for every position there are at least 10 equally “most” qualified.
Right. But that’s why they interview people
Of the all the qualified a-holes, which of them can we sit next to for days on end
Personally I think the “most” qualified candidate takes advantage of every opportunity to improve and present themselves as a better choice for the position. If I were an interviewer I might even ask the candidate if they had used service to prepare for the interview. If their answer was “no” they had better shine a bit brighter than others for not showing the initiative to get help.
It’s almost like what we used to call CLR, showing a failure to use all their available resources. On the old CLR grid they may be a 9/1.
BTW I have nothing to do with any of these prep outfits, just making arm chair quarterback calls on this. When I got hired there weren’t any such services, just a book on the “stay-9” exam and I bought it.
Like I said, I understand your point. But imagine if the world was like what Mako did? As in, just go in there and be an unrehearsed self?
We ALL KNOW those guys/girls that wouldn’t have gotten it otherwise. Whether it was the F2F prep, or shelling out the money for the sim ride and they STILL SUCKED AT FLYING.
Originally Posted by
oldmako
I just think its BS. Not quite along the lines of buying term papers, but not far off. And because a career can easily span 30 years, these companies can charge whatever they want and guys will still line up.
When I interviewed the PR lady inquired three times what I did to prep. I have her the exact same laundry list after the first two. She then asked again. I thought that she was either hard of hearing, or that I was. This was one minute into the interview and she already had me on the ropes. In mild exasperation I said, "Oh do you mean did I go see Cheryl Cage?" Both she and the Captain smiled, though his smile was large and genuine.
I said no and told her why.
The tactics/techniques from those days were, shall we say, “special”.