“We accepted this bang out of behaviour from the Boomer employers our whole lives.”
Me: really enjoyed the call.
c’mon see attached financial modeling testGen Z applicant: this looks like a lot of work.
But not everyone agreed that the applicant was wrong.
The job doesn’t exist.
The ‘test’ is the only work they need done."
To be fair, a lot of places are just using applicants for free labor.
The job doesn’t exist.
The “test” is the only work they need done.
I dont mind doing work for free to show what I can do.
So I dont mind this stance.
“Effort vs reward [is] definitely not there for this.
Good for him,” they wrote.
Unless you offered to compensate for that 90 minutes.
He has no idea how many applicants remain in the process.
He probably has interviews with other businesses.
Effort vs reward definitely not there for this.
A response I would have actually enjoyed would have been.
Im good at this and do t work for free.
But this is pretty much the subtext of his email, no?
I once had a place give me a four hour data analysis and modelling test packet.
Told me they loved the work, and then the next day laid off 30% of staff.
I get why people can be suspicious.
They added, “You want to trust their work.
I dont care if its a lot of your time.
Its unreal how hard it is to find good people.
They called it a “Great reminder not to work for free.”
He got out of school during a bad job market.
He had a design degree and a portfolio.
Instead of looking at your work, theyd ask you to draw up a design before the interview.
Dad never got hired but saw his design in stores for the company he interviewed for.
Luckily it was a union job.”
Another person wrote, “Younger generations are OVER the ‘unpaid internships’ and free work!”
A few bumps and bruises [do] a lot of good."
You know, for context.
Gen Z would benefit from being in more fistfights at a young age.
A few bumps and bruises does a lot of good
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