{"id":370,"date":"2003-03-07T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-07T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=370"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:42:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:42:45","slug":"job-placement-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"Job Placement Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the lighter side of the blog, I received this advice on how to place prospective employees.<\/p>\n<p>\nTake the prospective employees you are trying to place and put them in<br \/>\na room with only a table and two chairs.  Leave them alone for two<br \/>\nhours, without any instruction.  At the end of that time, go back and<br \/>\nsee what they are doing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If they have taken the table apart, put them in Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>\nIf they are counting the butts in the ashtray, assign them to Finance.<\/p>\n<p>\nIf they are waving their arms and talking out loud, send them to<br \/>\nConsulting.<\/p>\n<p>\nIf they are talking to the chairs, Personnel is a good spot for them.<\/p>\n<p>\nIf they are wearing green sunglasses and need a haircut, Computer<br \/>\nInformation Systems is their niche.<\/p>\n<p>\nIf the room has a sweaty odor, perhaps they&#8217;re destined for the Help<br \/>\nDesk.<\/p>\n<p>\nIf they mention what a good price we got for the table and chairs, put<br \/>\nthem into Purchasing.<\/p>\n<p>\nIf they mention that hardwood furniture DOES NOT come from rainforests,<br \/>\nPublic Relations would suit them well.<\/p>\n<p>\nIf they are sleeping, they are Management material.<\/p>\n<p>\nIf they are writing up the experience, send them to the Technical<br \/>\nDocuments team.<\/p>\n<p>\nIf they don&#8217;t even look up when you enter the room, assign them to<br \/>\nSecurity.<\/p>\n<p>\nIf they try to tell you it&#8217;s not as bad as it looks, send them to<br \/>\nMarketing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the lighter side of the blog, I received this advice on how to place prospective employees. Take the prospective employees you are trying to place and put them in a room with only a table and two chairs. Leave them alone for two hours, without any instruction. At the end of that time, go&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=370\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Job Placement Strategy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-5Y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}