the lynx wrote:But personally, would you guys REALLY do like what the interviewer in WD40 and Max's stories did? Asking those smart aleck questions on interviewees who probably needs those jobs very badly.
YES!!!! and double YES!!! The people I hired wanted S$240,000 per year for the work they were going to perform. I expect only the best. How else to separate the wheat from the chaff? I'm sorry, Lynx, but I truly don't give a shit if they need the job. I truly do give a shit if they can perform.
I judge that WD40 ran into an opportunity for which he was unprepared. Reality is perception, and your value to other people is that which you can convince them. Lynx, I placed people that earned upwards of S$1500 per DAY... the value was obviously in the eye of the client.
WD40 himself said that the job was good... and I believe it was. This is actually an opportunity for WD40 to make a fundamental paradigm shift... to quit trying to be hired as an employee into some predefined position, and to start being hired as a "solution"... and the ever overworked, "value add".
Every job candidate should be prepared to answer how they contribute more than the cost of their salaries... and as those salaries go up, the answer is necessarily more complex. The questions that were asked of WD40 were intended to hunt out exactly that... what is his value?