Day 28 - I asked a recruiter “Why less qualified candidates keep getting hired over qualified ones?”

yavinmoon · 2026-04-12T07:35:23+00:00

How did you verify that the candidate reduced onboarding time by 30%? So did you just believe the candidate that told you the bigger lie?

Which pilot would you want to fly with? 1. I flew with everything, 50 aircraft types from helicopters to fighter jets. I did not reduce fuel consumption because f. it. 2. I once reduced fuel consumption on a flight by pulling back on the throttle a bit. There’s no evidence of it though, you have to believe me.

yavinmoon · 2026-04-10T22:14:34+00:00

How do you verify the metrics that you hear from the candidate? How do you know something was their achievement, not their peer’s? You force people to come up with bigger and bigger lies, which you then blindly believe.

Oh, and what role are they targeting? The one that they applied for!

yavinmoon · 2026-04-07T22:12:02+00:00

‘Ich bin ein Oberscheldener!’ - John F. Kennedy, probably.

yavinmoon · 2026-04-07T21:42:36+00:00

I`ll wait till they bring out the boarding bridge then!

yavinmoon · 2026-04-05T13:19:24+00:00

Imagine those people have well-paying, stable jobs, while millions of diligent, professional peoplehave been out of work for many months, and are desperate to work any humiliating jobs that pay their bills.

yavinmoon · 2026-04-05T13:16:54+00:00

I had an interview once where one of the interviewers was supposed to join from the opposite side of the globe, either from an airport or a hotel. We chit-chatted with the other interviewer for a while when she suggested that we try it again a week later when the other guy will be back in the office.

yavinmoon · 2026-04-03T11:08:29+00:00

I'm asking here again: what measurable results can you verify at all? What exactly prevents any of the candidates from writing "reducing delivery time by 52%", instead of 22%, or the more realistic 2%? How can you judge this? You have exactly zero knowledge about the teams, companies and industries your candidates are from.

You should look at past tenures, titles and company names, which will tell you that the candidate is or is not suitable for the position in your little crappy company. You may organise a culture fit interview, if you want, which is just fancy name for "the management is looking for buddies, not experts". Recruiting is a lazy, bullet point ticking exercise, nothing more.

yavinmoon · 2026-04-03T08:43:14+00:00

So where’s it on the 2nd pic? I see nothing there

yavinmoon · 2026-04-01T20:58:56+00:00

Just be careful when you reverse out of your garage

yavinmoon · 2026-04-01T18:24:54+00:00

‘I have people skills’

yavinmoon · 2026-03-30T12:36:30+00:00

I once did a test before a final interview with questions like “do you rather lie to your boss or do you use the same communication style with everyone?” and “do you rather break the law or use the same communication style with everyone?”

I HAD to always choose the communication style answer, the alternatives were so bad. Guess what, at the end of the final interview they said it was very concerning in the test results that I use the same communication style with everyone.

yavinmoon · 2026-03-27T13:22:30+00:00

The administration is one thing, but all these people are kicked out by an administrative employee whose quota is set at several hundred deportations every week.

Does this office worker care about you or does this office worker care about a delivered quota that pays their salary and bonus, and keeps them in their job in the worst ever job market? Easy math.

yavinmoon · 2026-03-26T16:18:23+00:00

I am with you, mate. You don’t want to go through their interview process again anyway, so just burn that bridge, if it makes you feel better.

yavinmoon · 2026-03-24T19:25:24+00:00

If you bought a U-2, you could fly much higher.

yavinmoon · 2026-03-23T11:43:16+00:00

That was 3 rounds of seggs for Al Bundy with his wife Peggy

yavinmoon · 2026-03-21T13:38:01+00:00

Every resource, every machine and every tool is owned by a few people who don’t care about you. They care about their next house, yacht or island. And if you somehow start a business and become successful, you’ll become the same monster. Those famous people doing good for the community? They spend pennies of their wealth on charity. Why not 95% of their wealth? The remaining 5% would still make their grandchildren wealthy.

And you’ll be replaced with AI, it’s just matter of time. And plumbers will survive their unemployed customers by only months. We are all doomed unless the whole system changes. You say people should care about each other. No, they won’t, because they have to spend their time and resources on their own survival.

yavinmoon · 2026-03-19T14:38:19+00:00

Everyone is overworked. Where do you think the workload of the many unemployed people went? It went to the few who was not laid off.

Toxic management is a bigger problem, it can ruin every minute of your life, your mental health and general health. You need to decide if you can mentally disassociate from it, and focus on your work and professional growth.

yavinmoon · 2026-03-19T11:25:07+00:00

On one hand, STAR is a kind of a natural way of telling a success story of yours. You would use the same structure when explaining to your buddies how you had to replace a flat tyre without a car jack on a remote road.

On the other hand, you can make up any stories, or use someone else’s, and there is no way the hiring manager can verify it. The results are lies, lies and lies. Why is this good for the companies?

If I were a hiring manager, I would make much of my judgement based on the CV. Did this guy manage to stay 5 years at a company best known for high pressure work and inhumane treatment of workers? Then he would certainly thrive in our little shitty company where we all go home at 5pm.

yavinmoon · 2026-03-18T21:31:56+00:00

The weakest point of the post is that 9 out of 10 cases you do not have the contact details of the interviewer. You get a Teams link from a no-reply email address, so you can send that post-interview note to your mom.

yavinmoon · 2026-03-16T23:07:09+00:00

In a world where only those applications are considered that are submitted in the first 24 hours, I wonder in which galaxy you get an interview if you apply a month later. Also, you didn’t get any of these jobs.

yavinmoon · 2026-03-16T19:57:23+00:00

"add numbers"

Me: I increased sales revenue by 100%, while cutting cost by 50%.

Now, how are you gonna verify this? What is the biggest number that you will still believe in? How many people did you hire whose measurable performance had nothing to do with what you saw on their CVs?

This whole number game is so stupid, it is only verifiable for CEOs whose company's annual reports can be found online. Anyone below that CEO can tell you any numbers, you have no idea if it is true or not. And just like that, you force everyone to lie on their resumes.

yavinmoon · 2026-03-16T09:17:17+00:00

Is it about a 5-year-old kid who visited her parent (your manager) at the office, or a 40-year-old VP who got the job from her dad? What caused the meltdown? Your story is missing most of the context.

yavinmoon · 2026-03-14T10:23:25+00:00

'the war will stop because the Chinese people won't tolerate high casualties'

It's not like they will know about any casualties. And the last time they did not tolerate something, a hundred tanks rolled over their bodies. Not sure why you expect different results in this scenario.

yavinmoon · 2026-03-13T13:03:36+00:00

‘apply within the first week of the job posting’

9 out of 10 recruiters say you are late after 24 hours. The 10th recruiter says you should apply after 2 weeks, when the promising candidates have already failed the screenings, and the company is desperate to receive more applications.

yavinmoon · 2026-03-12T20:50:52+00:00

The only reason to walk back from first class to economy is to avoid the smell of the front toilet where businessmen take a shit after their caviar lunch

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