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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.
Its not surprising that the Millennials, who spend a lot of their time texting on their phones, like to be contacted by texts.
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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.
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
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.
Then buy a virtual number for something like $1.50 per month and enable SMS on that. Have the texts routed to your email so you don't get woken up.
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.
Text messages don't always have to come from a cell phone tied number. You can set up a gateway and get a 10-digit SMS number and corporate it up all you want.
Cellular broadband.
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.
What do you have, a grandfathered plan from the turn of the millennium?
My sister-in-law kept the same cellphone with a $10 per month plan for ten years. That is until she used the restroom at work one day. The cellphone slipped out of her of pocket and into the toilet bowl. Since it was an auto flush toilet, her cellphone was long gone by the time she turned around. She got an iPhone and paid $90 per month like the rest of us.
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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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...
Got a Google Voice number for free years ago that I can use for SMS without paying extra to my carrier. Also lets me send/receive SMS from the web interface using a real keyboard. Another bonus is that it transcribes my voicemail so I don't have to waste time listening to it.
Seems extra pointless to pay for SMS messages, since they're low priority traffic that piggyback on the cellular control protocol, so they don't really cost the networks anything in terms of bandwidth or extra equipment. But American marketing likes to get you to pay extra for whatever they can make you perceive as a "feature".
Probably because older Millennials over 30 are growing up and behaving differently than their younger counterparts. Don't want to skew the results.
Welcome to the US, where unlimited texting only comes with $50+/month plans.
I'm an odd combination of agile[1] and clumsy, plus there are a lot pickpockets round here. My phone, wallet and keys are all on lanyards. The only way one of them can gan doon the netty is if I go with it.
[1] not in the shitty excuse for a methodology sense.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
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.
Bullshit. You can easily get a $30 plan with unlimited texts, calls and 2GB of LTE.
then im all for it. What a useless industry....
In the 1960s they had a saying, "Life ends at 30." Another one, "Don't trust anybody over 30."
The song Lather by Jefferson Airplane still gets played on the radio. It sounds like it is about a Special Person, but actually it is just about their drummer's 30th birthday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I had to pay for mine so I disabled it. Later I found out I could get unlimited text, but they never notified me, I only learned when I went to change some other aspect of the account. Now I don't know where to get the plan you speak of without changing vendors, but I hear some people change often.
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.
She could have just bought another similar phone.
She didn't want another 1990-ish cellphone.
The essentials are: food, water, clothing and shelter, sanitation, education, and healthcare.
...and the interview resulting in the job/money to obtain these essentials is NOT essential?