What would be the one thing that put you off hiring someone?

[greyrabbits]

Of all the things that would put you off giving someone a job, what’s the one thing that’s a definite no thanks.

having a gender identity instead of a personality. cant think if anything more tiresome than having to deal with that nonsense day in day out.

You know who I wouldn't hire... People who make sweeping assumptions about other people they don't know based on weight, personal style, gender identity, or sexuality. That just wouldn't work in a service that values people.

I think you’ll find it’s Mx Bluehair Pronoun-Pratt, (they/them)

Workplaces that mandate staff to wear items depicting an adherence to a contested ideology are not good or “inclusive” workplaces. And how does someone wearing a rainbow lanyard make anyone feel safer?

I don't think the rainbow flag is contested ideology. Sexuality is protected under the equality act. Some councils have rainbow lanyards. This is so that residents who come in for help know they won't be treated with prejudice.

So anyone who works for that council and doesn’t have a rainbow lanyard will apply prejudice? Or are rainbow lanyards compulsory? I expect all my staff to be professional to all people regardless of their sex/ sexuality which they may not know anyway. It shouldn’t just be something people with particular lanyards sign up for. That is my problem with virtue signalling lanyards, they assume people not wearing them are bad. They are also pushed by the woman hating organisation Stonewall, s I see a rainbow lanyard and I see misogyny

My husband was sat in on an interview for a new member for his team.

It was a 2nd interview and she did really well so they offered her the job there and then.

As she took her diary out of her bag to look at start dates, a bag of white powder fell out of it on to the floor. She just picked it up and put it back in her bag and looked at them and said "I guess you will be retracting the offer to start". The manager was like yeahhh . . . 😂

the rainbow flag has moved on to the progress pride flag. Which no longer just celebrates LGB/Pride, but also the umbrella of gender identity, which very much IS a contested ideology.

What about residents who don’t support gender ideology and feel uncomfortable with pride lanyards and flags? Will they be treated without prejudice?

I don't think it means you have to assume everyone is prejudiced unless they wear a rainbow lanyard. I see it more like when you go into a chemist and there's a little rainbow flag on the door. Lots of chemists have them. It's a visible sign that the organisation is inclusive. I'm not saying I think every organisation should have them, I just don't see them as a bad thing.

How embarrassing !

Someone with previous MH issues

You need to undertake unconscious / conscious bias training

No discrimination there then?
Scary

I worked for a fab boss once and came across her notes of interviewing candidates for a trainee (professional) position. For one of them she’d just written at the top of the A4 paper ‘why no brush hair?’ and the rest was blank.

Working in a food environment and was walking a candidate round when she decided to pick her nose. Bleurgh.

Indeed
It is truly scary the enormity of the prejudices documented in this thread and even more scary that the posters may be involved in recruitment

How would you know if a potential employee had previous MH issues?

Good question. I never disclose mine but young people in particular seem keen to admit to them these days.

Unfortunately some companies want a very ‘clean’ presentable aesthetic and visible tattoos and hair dyed an unnatural colour don’t fit into that……surely people wi get tattoos / dye hair unnatural colours know this in advance of getting said embellishments though and know what they are getting into?

Loose lips sink ships

Would it be okay if they said something extreme far left in the interview?

Zero drive or dynamism coming across in the interview.

Ignoring instructions about an interview task e.g. last year I interviewed someone we had asked to give a ten minute presentation. Theirs was much longer because they waffled and droned on for far too long. I work in Comms and feel that reflects badly on a professional communicator.

Something I have noticed a lot is candidates not having examples of things they've worked on where they can talk about the results they achieved/impact they had. They just say what they did, and that's it. Although I think that may be a bit of a feature of younger people who are earlier on in their careers. As a manager you know you have to have the stats/results.

Applications written with AI that bear little relation to the job description.

People who haven't done their research about an organisation before their interview.

You'd be surprised - I have had people disclose this in interviews.

Did it put you off them?