Can you expand on the doublespeak employers are looking for??Anonymous User wrote:
There's an element of truth to this, but having done my fair share of hiring, firing, and being hired, the "biglaw" hiring model can seem especially capricious. But the "I'm an asshole./I'm not an asshole!" doublespeak the big firms are looking for (often subconsciously) is actually a key job skill and people who don't have it would probably hate the jobs, and should therefore be thankful for the dings. Calling the mystery metric "personality," however, is overly generous. It's more like "anti-personality" or "sliminess."
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Re: If it's not the stats and not the interviewing, what is it?
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Re: If it's not the stats and not the interviewing, what is it?
watAnonymous User wrote: There's an element of truth to this, but having done my fair share of hiring, firing, and being hired, the "biglaw" hiring model can seem especially capricious. But the "I'm an asshole./I'm not an asshole!" doublespeak the big firms are looking for (often subconsciously) is actually a key job skill and people who don't have it would probably hate the jobs, and should therefore be thankful for the dings. Calling the mystery metric "personality," however, is overly generous. It's more like "anti-personality" or "sliminess."
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Re: If it's not the stats and not the interviewing, what is it?
bk1 wrote:watAnonymous User wrote: There's an element of truth to this, but having done my fair share of hiring, firing, and being hired, the "biglaw" hiring model can seem especially capricious. But the "I'm an asshole./I'm not an asshole!" doublespeak the big firms are looking for (often subconsciously) is actually a key job skill and people who don't have it would probably hate the jobs, and should therefore be thankful for the dings. Calling the mystery metric "personality," however, is overly generous. It's more like "anti-personality" or "sliminess."
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Re: If it's not the stats and not the interviewing, what is it?
This makes absolutely no sense.rad lulz wrote:bk1 wrote:watAnonymous User wrote: There's an element of truth to this, but having done my fair share of hiring, firing, and being hired, the "biglaw" hiring model can seem especially capricious. But the "I'm an asshole./I'm not an asshole!" doublespeak the big firms are looking for (often subconsciously) is actually a key job skill and people who don't have it would probably hate the jobs, and should therefore be thankful for the dings. Calling the mystery metric "personality," however, is overly generous. It's more like "anti-personality" or "sliminess."
Don't try to be fake in interviews.
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