biggest complaints from recruiters lately, both in-house and agency, is they want to talk on the phone. No fukken way, shitbag, zoom only. You aint gonna get the ability to call me whenever you want. No zoom, no meet, period.
2nd is these agency recruiters will open their inmail with the usual “hot opportunity, meow chow can’t miss this” and I just respond with “send job description and the client details and I’ll review.” 90% of them won’t, they don’t get a meeting either. They’ll come back with something like this:
“I’m not in a position to disclose companies or roles right now. Firstly before we can tell you what roles we have, we need to sync over an introductory call to find out what companies would be right for you.”
Nope. Fuck off. I block these guys. They literally never have anything good.
Then there are the shitheads that list their location as “new york” and you look at their calendly and they only have open times at like 7:30AM. Because they’re actually in Berlin. Universally bad experiences with these bozos (both agency and in-house).
One incredibly bad experience I had recently was with an in-house sourcer, the “head” of recruiting (it’s a ~30 person company, so almost certainly the only recruiter they have), who dragged my current company within ~5 minutes of getting on the zoom. I am in hindsight pretty mad at myself for not just insta-disconnecting right then, but I finished the call and then ghosted them.
I don’t like to keep the phone on silent, because I don’t want to miss a call from wife or kids.
So even though I don’t answer most calls, even the rings are annoying.
I guess there is probably a way I could get my phone to ring only for certain people on my contacts and be silent for everyone else. Anyone want to point me in the right direction?
My boss asked someone in a zoom interview what they like to do for fun, one of the things they mentioned was reading, so he followed up with “what are you reading?” and the person thought he was accusing them of reading something off the screen and was super flustered like “what!?! nothing??? why would I be reading something I’m focused on this interview I swear!” and ya needless to say it killed the interview after that and they didn’t get the job.
It really is something when you can identify a major (metaphorical) explosion that’s going to happen at work, it plays out slowly over several days in exactly the way you expected/feared, and the only thing you can do about it is to wonder exactly who is going to bear the brunt of the fallout.
I’m teaching an Executive MBA class this semester and I’m trying to figure out what topics to cover. The class is accounting for decision making, and my general expectation is that students will be able to interpret financial statements, develop projected financial statements, and be able to use financial information for decision-making purposes.
For a lot of students, this will be their first exposure to this kind of thing, so this is not an advanced class. Some topics that will definitely be covered:
Reading and interpreting financial statements, being able to link quantitative financial information with qualitative business characteristics.
Performing rudimentary financial statement analysis to assess performance, risk, and valuations
Fixed vs. variable costs, breakeven analysis, and financial/operating leverage
Financial statement projections
Are there any specific topics/areas that you all think I should definitely be covering? An obvious way to think about it - what topics would you be most interested in if you were taking the class? Another way to frame it, if you had a fairly high level manager and you tried to have a conversation with them about financial information, what would you take for granted that they’d understand? What topics/concepts, if not understood, would make you say, “Holy shit, I can’t believe this person got an MBA?”
