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- Sep 6, 2007
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- Western NY
Whether it be small bits or pictures of past jobs, obviously it doesn't prove they can walk the walk...
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Whether it be small bits or pictures of past jobs, obviously it doesn't prove they can walk the walk...
No, it wouldn't. I've seen way too many people taking credit for parts they had nothing to do with.
But says more about your people skills than it is the applicants technical skills.
This is what has happened to me, so take it as such. Most of the people who have brought in items to show off during an interview have been the bottom of the barrel people. It is like they trick you until you figure out in a few weeks that they just took a sample from their old job and BS the showing.
For example, I interviewed this guy from a national tech school for welding and fabrication. He showed off things that he drew up, things the class had done, nice things. Said the right stuff most of the time. But when it came down to the mega test, he failed. I took the last sheet of paper off his resume and folded it somewhere in half. I said how long is it? He said somewhere between 7 and 7 1/4. He couldn't read a tape measure.
Now that said, my best ever fabricator showed off his work, but I asked him how he did critical steps, like fixturing and such. He replied with a very good set of answers.
So this got me thinking of when I hire people. They always ask me, what should I bring. I now say... bring what you think you need. If you are applying at my company for a welder/fabricator position and you dont bring a welding helmet or tape measure..... you weren't worth the time for an interview.I feel like a lot of tech programs give people exiting this false sense of now being a qualified tradesman, and need to instead send them off knowing that they still need an entry level position in the real world environment. I remember one of those guys always replying to how good are you with Mig/Tig/Etc by saying "oh I'm certified Mig, I'm certified Tig…"
I'd say show me as much as you want to, but know that when you sit down to run some welds it will be apparent fast if you were bs'ing or not.
I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean, Sami, but then I'm pretty stupid.
So this got me thinking of when I hire people. They always ask me, what should I bring. I now say... bring what you think you need. If you are applying at my company for a welder/fabricator position and you dont bring a welding helmet or tape measure..... you weren't worth the time for an interview.
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Honestly, if people bring parts to the interview but the person interviewing them doesn't follow up and use it at a point of discussion - asking how they made the part, what tools, what fixtures, what the challenges were, etc - then that is a total failure of the interviewer to dig into a candidates resume and skillset.
I would like someone to bring parts. I assume they have the right to bring those parts and show me. If they bring parts and can't tell me how they were made or what was difficult about them, then they just exposed themselves as BS'er and I would be thankful they gave me a shortcut to finding that out rather than wasting an hour or two of my day talking to them.
This is exactly what I was thinking. If a person brings in a part to an interview, they better know everything there is to know about that part....If they did, they'd better be ready to speak about them in great detail (including what the shop policy was for handling and disposition of defective material).
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