Comments on: Stay Away From This Hiring ‘Hack’ https://www.evilhrlady.org/2024/03/stay-away-from-this-hiring-hack.html Everything to make HR better Sat, 30 Mar 2024 16:33:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Elizabeth West https://www.evilhrlady.org/2024/03/stay-away-from-this-hiring-hack.html#comment-239412 Sat, 30 Mar 2024 16:33:52 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=7547#comment-239412 I’ve been asked to do tasks as a test when hiring. But these auditions shouldn’t take more than an hour or two tops — if so, that time should be paid.

What I usually do when job hunting is steer people to my online portfolio — there, they can look at examples of the kinds of things I’ve done in past jobs, my indie publishing, and generic samples I worked up on my own. There’s a link to it on my resume and my resume is also on the portfolio site. I also have a very nice document I can send. But I won’t work for free. If they don’t like that, too bad.

]]> By: jccbeach https://www.evilhrlady.org/2024/03/stay-away-from-this-hiring-hack.html#comment-239407 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:28:43 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=7547#comment-239407 Awful practice. In order to apply to jobs, I’ve been asked to respond in writing to some fairly in-depth questions about how I’ve completed tasks in the past. These seemed to me to be along similar lines of the employer seeking free consulting. One job I was hired for had a test which could have been viewed as merely a test or free work that they needed done at the time.

]]> By: Kelley https://www.evilhrlady.org/2024/03/stay-away-from-this-hiring-hack.html#comment-239406 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:04:00 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=7547#comment-239406 I would add “slimy” to the list of why you shouldn’t do this. I have been asked exactly once to do a presentation as part of my interview. (I’m in HR). I did a presentation on emergency preparedness – something I’m passionate about, but probably doesn’t give them any free “consulting”… FWIW, I did not get that job. 🙂

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