Vetting potential flying club members
The best "vetting" procedure i know of is to get a few drinks into them and then observe what they say and how they behave. Our company interviews are always conducted at some sort of "social" occasion, usually without the subject knowing they are being interviewed.
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The best "vetting" procedure i know of is to get a few drinks into them and then observe what they say and how they behave. Our company interviews are always conducted at some sort of "social" occasion, usually without the subject knowing they are being interviewed.
So we'd do the formal interview bit in the office and then take them down the pub. The ones that didn't realise that how they behaved in the pub was part of the interview tended to do less well!
Once Upon A Time we conducted most of our interviews at 5pm on Friday, because the interviewee didn't want his current employer to know he was going for a job interview, and that way it just looked like he was skiving off early for the weekend.
So we'd do the formal interview bit in the office and then take them down the pub. The ones that didn't realise that how they behaved in the pub was part of the interview tended to do less well!
So we'd do the formal interview bit in the office and then take them down the pub. The ones that didn't realise that how they behaved in the pub was part of the interview tended to do less well!
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My current and last employers both have new applicants shown around before their job interviews by one of the senior lab techs. After the interview, the lab tech is brought in and grilled on their opinion. Several marginal candidates have failed to get the job as a result of that bit.
My daughter was shown round [a certain well-known London college] by a student, before the formal interview. She was sufficiently unimpressed by the student that she let the authorities know they had a problem ... I assume your senior lab techs did rather better jobs!
Mind you, when I was an academic I'd use one of the existing PhD students to show around the university a prospective new postgrad. They tended to be quite informative, not least because they were thinking in terms of whether the possible incomer would be pulling their weight or not.
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