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[quote=Anonymous]I think the crux of the matter is that OP is thinking in terms of what they can do, and focused on the fact they are sure they can do if they get to the right level. If that is the focus, the process looks a little arbitrary and unreasonable, and it looks like hiring managers are just being, I don't know, pissy or obstinate or unfair.

But if you look at it from the hiring manager's perspective, if you could hire Person A for a given job, but they can only do well at it so long as they find it interesting and doing it only involves things the employee really cares about, or Person B, who has a proven track record of sticking with tasks even through the unexpectedly tedious bits, and when the scope of tasks changes ... which is the better candidate? Which one do you have to spend more time supervising and protecting from aspects of the job they might not like (because you know they have quit quickly in the past when they felt uninterested or too challenged)?

Any job with attractive characteristics (creative, exciting, pays well, whatever combination) will attract multiple applicants. I'd rather have someone with a little less talent and a lot more grit, because i think I will be much more likely to be giving high performance reviews to that one, especially over time. They are also going to be a lot less work to manage, and nobody has spare time and energy to spend when they could just have hired a better worker. [/quote]

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