{"id":3930,"date":"2023-07-24T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T06:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3930"},"modified":"2023-07-02T08:36:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T13:36:51","slug":"meta-messages-in-job-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2023\/07\/meta-messages-in-job-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Messages in Job Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Take care with the messages you send job interviewees if you really want to hire someone.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another job interview, another headache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some organizations use this process in a job interview. There are N people sitting around the table. Each person has a sheet with N questions on it. Person #1 reads question #1. The interviewee answers the question while all N people write the answer. Person #2 reads question #2 and on and on until each person has read a question and everyone has written the same thing on paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The organization could have given the interviewee the questions ahead of time and let the person write the answers. Well&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is the meta message? We don&#8217;t think often and we often think poorly. Therefore, we use rote techniques so that we act like little cogs in a machine. Does the interviewee want to be another little cog in a machine? Usually not. Sometimes the paycheck is needed so badly that the interviewee will choke on it all and take it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I once had a job interview where the first two questions were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Can you type?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How many words per minute?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found this strange as I had a PhD and had written a few books, a thesis, a dissertation, and whatever else came along the way. Drivel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another job interview started with, &#8220;Have you ever made any mistakes that you&#8217;d like to talk about?&#8221; Ah! Thought. A good smart person wanting to know something about me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s consider the meta messages in our job interviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Take care with the messages you send job interviewees if you really want to hire someone. Another job interview, another headache. Some organizations use this process in a job interview. There are N people sitting around the table. Each person has a sheet with N questions on it. Person #1 reads question [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,271,20,247],"tags":[143,272,142,248],"class_list":["post-3930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-jobs","category-learning","category-questions","tag-change","tag-jobs","tag-learning","tag-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3931,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions\/3931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}