tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7973185574831334870.post648323600398284124..comments2023-04-05T23:21:18.152-07:00Comments on Mr Bojangles: The Shortest Job EverTom Ilubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14585791485679975205noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7973185574831334870.post-28419266091404473482010-03-17T17:51:04.859-07:002010-03-17T17:51:04.859-07:00I don't think i can beat 27 minutes Tom althou...I don't think i can beat 27 minutes Tom although I have had one or two no shows over the years. Recruiting at the very top end of the market is a difficult task at the best of times as you are never quite sure when you have found the right person. A few years a go the corporation I work for introduced a departmental policy whereby we would only recruit the very best in the industry and we were prepared to pay the going rate for them. We spent several months putting several candidates through a gruelling interview process and ended up hiring absolutely nobody as we had simply set our bar too high. The closest we came to was a New York based Oracle Data Warehouse Guru who we had never met but had spent many hours interviewing over the phone. When it came to the crunch and we made him an offer he turned us down on the basis that the charm of the West Midlands wasn't quite enough to coax him out of his Manhattan life style. <br /><br />As it turned out, the most suitable candidate (not necessarily the best) was the very first one we had interviewed so we went back to him and fortunately he was still available as he hadn't found the right role to leave his existing job for. We made him an offer which he accepted and performed extremly well in for several years.Hnoreply@blogger.com