I need your help.
Posted By: Please clarify. on 2005-10-09
In Reply to: I have to bring this Psych Eval topic to the top. sm - MTSO2
I've been in QA management and have dealt with total nut cases. Now I'm a recruiter. I've dealt with what I felt *could be* total nut cases. Did I hire them? Yes! Why? Because they were qualified and I didn't feel that just because I thought they were odd ducks it should should preclude them from doing a good job. Every one of those people has gone on to be a good, stable hire. Then there are the "perfectly normal" souls I've hired who have become training, QA, or production nightmares. When asked if I had any insight, I've had to say "they passed the tests, they did great on the interview--who knew?!"
So, given that, what I need from you are the specific questions and red-flag responses that would indicate that someone is going to be a nutcase after the interview.
Oh, keep in mind that it's probably against the law to ask them if they've ever been in an inpatient psychiatric setting either voluntarily or involuntarily.
And, who, exactly, do you mean by "the MTSO needs to be in in on the interview process?" An MTSO is an entity, not a person. Do you mean that the CEO should hire? The CIO? CFO? Operations Director? Human Resources Director? Stockholders? Venture capitalists? All of the above? Is that their job, to hire people? Also, what gives them the knowledge and power to determine if someone is going to be a personality problem? What do they know, by their life and work experience, that a recruiter does not? What questions should THEY ask that a recruiter might not?
Do you think recruiters are idiots, random homeless people picked up off the street and drug in to do the job without any training or skills?
Maybe every MTSO should have a staff psychiatrist to handle the interview process! As a candidate would you prefer to have a second interview with the company shrink rather than take a psych profile? If you think the recruiter should be a shrink, should they also have training as a Transcriptionist and recruiter, or is just being a shrink enough to determine if people are qualified to do this job? Do you think a shrink would work for a recruiter's salary? Really, we need clarification on this point in order to figure out how the MTSO should be in on the process.
Thanks in advance for your sage advice, I remain, a recruiter who clearly needs your help. Oh--and I'm also a recruiter who has had many college-level psych and sociology courses, and I actually did work in an inpatient psych hospital for years--and I still can't find the crazy apple in the bunch.
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