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Managers Should Start Texting Job Candidates, Says Study (fastcompany.com)
From a report: A new survey by Yello, a talent recruiting software company, has found that there are some aspects of the hiring process that companies could stand to improve. The report, taken from a survey of 1,461 young adults between the ages of 18 and 30 who were either currently employed or had accepted full-time or internship offers, found that mobile phones are one of the most useful tools for the interviewing and hiring process. Text messages, for example, may be the unsung hero of the communication loop. Yello's survey data indicates respondents would welcome getting a text from a business, particularly because they're so used to responding quickly to text messages. The report shows that 86% of those surveyed felt positively when text messages were used during the interview period, an increase from 79% in 2016. More candidates are happy to do video interviews in lieu of traveling to meet hiring managers in person.
So, which is essential? Broadband access, or cellular access?
No.. I pay per message on my plan and this would be ridiculous.. Plus, who wants to be woken in the middle of the night by a TXT from some automated system?
Its not surprising that the Millennials, who spend a lot of their time texting on their phones, like to be contacted by texts.
WTB [sig], PST!!!
Hai u haz job? I haz i wud lik to offr u, u intersted?
Or u could just go straight to the employer equivalent of Tinder. Ideal candidates will have exceptional rap battle skillz.
We'll make great pets
I just think this sounds ridiculous. I text my buddy to see if he saw that awesome goal on TV. I'm not interested in getting texts from companies in any way, shape, or form - employment related or otherwise.
With reddit full of auto-correct errors ranging from lewd to obscene, I cannot imagine the already stressful process of interviewing will be enhanced with the frustration of texting.
Like a job, RU serious bro? U pay me $ 2 fill seatz? Awsum BRB juz got 2 txt dicpic 2 IRS
HAHA it's funny because dead.
This was the original idea for The Apprentice.
You are welcome on my lawn.
"...a survey of 1,461 young adults between the ages of 18 and 30...found that mobile phones are one of the most useful tools for the interviewing and hiring process"
Translation: 1,461 young adults admit they can't live without their mobile phone, and prefer it as the tool for communicating, regardless if it's for an interview or a Tinder hook-up.
I wonder how these young adults would feel if they got fired via text message. Oh, suddenly that would be rude and impersonal? Yeah, not unlike wanting to be hired via text message.
"More candidates are happy to do video interviews in lieu of traveling to meet hiring managers in person."
I can understand if a company is having a difficult time filling a position being open to a bit more flexibility when hiring, but this kind of pandering and coddling to the social-media texting generation is rather pathetic. You want the job bad enough? Then make an effort to get off your ass and go meet the human hiring you in fucking person.
txt job to jobline to find jobs in your area
txt cmd to jobline for help on to use our sms job app and hr chat system.
Each SMS costs 99 cents + your standard rate.
txt stop to jobline to stop.
All the phone numbers gathered from unsuccessful candidates will be sold to data mining firms that specialize in marketing to people who are searching for jobs. This will help offset the cost of the interview process.
Not being limited to 140 characters, being able to reply from a PC with a real keyboard sounds like real advantages. No reason to still use SMS in 2017, but even less for job hiring.
I hate texts. I hate that some people think that texts imply urgency for my reply. I hate that I do not receive them on my computer. I hate that I cannot search through very old texts. Texts are just email only shitty.
-Dave
Okay son, I will kill myself. Having you for a son was always my greatest regret.
But for my first real job I was invited to the interview (and physical exam) by telegram.
There are legal issues with offers and other job interview related functions. Usually retention rules on offers and communications, HR signoff, Finance signoff, etc. So this would be limited to "is next tuesday good for the interview?" and that's about it.
Just because I can hook a shark from a boat, I do no offer to wrestle it in the water.
I'm sure you can store text messages in a coporate server but it just seems safer for any communication with potential employees to be through email in case there's ever a need to review those communications.
do companies save text messages off their employees' phones to preserve correspondence?
just give me sex
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
If I'm not worth it to send me a reply that doesn't fit into a fucking Tweet, I guess you can't really want me that badly.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
When I was working seven days a week for two years after the Great Recession, I upgraded my voice-only cellphone for a generic smartphone that got email and Internet access. That was quite useful as drove back and forth across Silicon Valley for contract assignments. The only problem that I had with generic smartphone that it would occasionally butt call my boss and I would hear his voice coming out of my ass.
It shows how responsible I am
Also using abbreviations that can be easily misconstrued, and workplace invalid emojis.
"It's So Fluffy!!!!"
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If the applicant can't handle the hiring process, then maybe they aren't worth hiring. If the applicant is in demand, then they'll be hired regardless of what you do.
They could just call like a professional should.
is not always good for the gander.
Sure, Millennials love to be able to ignore the world by sticking their nose in their phone, to the exclusion of all else (including oncoming traffic), but what manager in their right mind would ever interview someone by text, or hire someone without meeting them face to face?
A conversation that takes two minutes face to face will take days by text, because you can only reliable get most people to answer a single question per exchange, and half the time, it won't be any of the questions asked. That's normal in text and email. Do that in person, and the interviewer will begin to question your mental health. Do that on the job, and you won't be on the job for long. Identifying people who are incapable of doing the job is the whole point of the interview.
If a company is so desperate to hire employees they have to put up with this kind of childish nonsense, they have far bigger problems than interview processes.
From TFS:
"Yello's survey data indicates respondents would welcome getting a text from a business, particularly because they're so used to responding quickly to text messages."
How are those two phrases actually related? It's like saying "He is quite tall, particularly because his favorite color is blue."
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Retarded. These Ms. Mash stories don't even count as FUD they're so gay.
I love the Lifetime movie reference. Forgot the name. Summer '11, right?
Even the surveys ignore workers and job seekers over 30. Nice.
I would love to be able to work with people who don't text. This would automatically filter out places with those people.
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
Really? An interview candidate "felt positively" if they would get texted?
They'd "feel positively" if they got paid 50 hours of work and only have to show up 2 days also.
Grow up, it isn't about how you feel. Work hard, do a good job, receive recognition for skills and accomplishments. Get raises, move up the food chain...
Or we can sit in circle holding hands and sharing our childhood insecurities....bwahahahaha
Actually, I just don't want people to have my cell number...
FTS:
More candidates are happy to do video interviews in lieu of traveling to meet hiring managers in person.
Really?
Hiring someone with advanced training is a $300k to $1M decision (BS to PhD). What company would rely on a video-recorded interview to vet candidates on such a major decision?
Hiring is a major decision in other ways, too. Fit with local and company culture, and myriad other qualities that you can't suss-out without a day or two face-to-face.
It will filter out the humans from the mindless millenials. If you don't pull the piece of paper out of the mailbox or talk to a real person, you're probably better replaced with a chatbot.
then im all for it. What a useless industry....
She could have just bought another similar phone.
My contract agency calls and leaves a voicemail asking me to call back to follow-up on the current contract. I call them back but the number routes through a telephone agent that looks at her computer screen and sees that so-and-so is currently on a call, or unavailable, or may have gone home for the day and asks if I want to be transferred to their voicemail. I say Yes and leave a voicemail for the person that originally called me. They never call back.
Text messaging would be worse, the last god damn thing I want is to be at the beck and call of someone else. If they really wanted to communicate with me, they would either get off their lazy ass and drive out to the job site to sit down for lunch with me, or would send me an email so that I could type out a proper detailed response and send it to them at my convenience.
I have SMS disabled on my phone.There's not that many people that need to get hold of me urgently and those who do can call me. And those that are that important are also the same people I would actually accept a call from and probably not screen. Fuck you and fuck texting me about a job interview. Call me like a fucking human.
I will assume it was send as a massmailing. Just received one the other day, so I know I am still in some database from 10 years ago. If he really want to have me for a job, he best just pick up the phone and leave a message
I have ALWAYS called back, even if I was not looking just to see what they where offering.
OK, most of the time it will not be the manager himself and I am OK with that. He will also not be the person who picked me to make the list to be called.
And yes, most people will not answer their phone, but as most will have voicemail, it is easy to leave a message.
As a manager: If they do not call back, are they really the people you want in your company?
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
hahahahaha a trump joke! good job!
Last time an "employer" tried to contact me via text it turned out to be, essentially, fake. I had just finished a round of submitting resumes and applications. All of a sudden I start getting texts, 5-6 over the course of an hour, from this guy. I hadn't even responded back once yet. He calls. He briefly asks if I'm interested in a position, and spends the rest of the call asking if I had the funds would I go back to college, he can put me in touch with people, etc. Then he's trying to transfer me over to someone to take out loans and shit. I hung up.
If any employer ever tried to contact me via text again I'd tell 'em to get bent.