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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Outside Hire. EVP. Terminal Degree Required. Role paid 320k salary, ~100 bonus every year, full medical, no deductible, 401 matching to 6%, 5 weeks PTO- really, as much time 'off' as you need, just be reachable by call and you could pretty much live on vacation.

Search was 4 months long. Interviewed 18, narrowed to 2.

Second round of interviews today was a lunch. Candidate took off his coat and I saw that he had a bunch of trashy mid- aughts/late 90s tattoos like barb wire, flames, scrawled names.

The second I saw that I mentally removed him from the position and just settled into a nice lunch.

Just an observation I thought some of you all might want to know about.[/quote]

The truth is, whether anyone wants to acknowledge it or not, is that when it comes to job interviews and considerations for a job it is subjective. It just is. OP and anyone else who conducts job interviews and has input into whether to hire someone has the right to use their own lense in doing so. If a person wants to attend a job interview, they have to know that anything they say, do or show can be noted and evaluated. Articulation in how you speak, your clothes you select to wear, what fork you use during an interview lunch and, yes, tattoos you choose to be visible on your body are all fair game. It is all part of the equation. And for those that think that it should not be, well, you are extremely naïve.[/quote]

There are roles where that stuff matters and roles where it doesn't, but there aren't senior, well-compensated roles where the person who happens to be doing the interview that day gets to make that call. That's a fantasy. [/quote]

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