Timeline for Candidates that are late for interviews?
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| Mar 7, 2017 at 19:25 | comment | added | bobo2000 | Yeah it is Joe, anyway if we hire this person, I have enough reporting in place to find out if they are performing or not. So won't matter in the long run. | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 18:41 | comment | added | user70848 | @sumelic The main point of my comment is that the argument is not universally true. It is not true that all candidates know they are supposed to arrive at an interview 10 minutes early. The statement makes it sound like it's an official rule. I am saying it is not. | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 18:13 | comment | added | sumelic | @user70848: I've never seen the "don't show up too early" advice applied to 10 minutes. All the places I have seen that advice, it was presented as something like "don't show up more than half an hour early." But I agree with the first part of your comment: I don't think it would be a good idea to, say, ding someone for showing up "only" five minutes early unless they were explicitly told to arrive at least ten minutes in advance. | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 17:07 | comment | added | user70848 | @ta_notreddit I don't think this statement is universally true: "Candidates do know that they are supposed to be there ten minutes earlier." Some people think 5 minutes early, some 10, some 0 minutes. I have even read articles that actually advise people to show up on time, not early. | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 16:15 | comment | added | bharal | @Cronax i mean, it's obvious common sense is in short supply when the candidate is applying for an unpaid internship. | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 14:04 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | @Cronax: from a workplace point of view, if you think that "apologise for being late" is at a lower level of so-called common sense than, say, "don't stick your fingers in an electrical socket", then you can't really take people on with that little common sense. It's actually better to have nobody than to have someone whose judgment you just can't understand or predict at all. But what I find interesting about this case is, the lack of common sense was actually shown by the questioner's boss, not the candidate. Can't just "no hire" your boss. | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 13:36 | comment | added | Laconic Droid | @Cronax - it doesn't even reach the low bar of common sense, IMO. Unless the interviewee had lived in an isolation chamber for their entire life, they must have encountered situations where a person was late and apologised for it. From classes at school to homework assignments to meeting up with friends. | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 12:29 | comment | added | Cronax | @LaconicDroid Common sense would dictate that being late is a bad thing and that one should apologise for it. Unfortunately in practice, common sense is not always all that common amongst young people looking for an internship or for their first job. It's up to the interviewer to decide whether or not they take this into account. | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 12:14 | comment | added | user57201 | I used to be like that, and I got a chance to improve... in a fast-food. I don't know what kind of work you guys do, but my immaturity had little impact in a fast food's well-oiled machine (pun intended). | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 12:14 | comment | added | Laconic Droid | You don't need to have had a professional job to know that "sorry I'm late" is basic good manners. | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 12:01 | comment | added | bobo2000 | Yeah, that's the other issue. Intern has clearly never had a professional job and is immature. So not sure how hard I should be based on that. | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 11:27 | history | answered | user57201 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |