My next challenge at work will be training someone up once she starts with us in a few weeks. I have never had the responsibility for recruiting and training a person before. It was an interesting experience!
Being on the other side of things and seeing the nervousness that I probably exuded when sat in job interviews was eye-opening.
I also felt the hand of power touching my shoulder. Here were 4 people, some unemployed, others wanting more hours of work. It was up to me to choose which amongst them had the best merits to warrant authorising Head Office to make them an employee. Me?
When it comes down to it, its harder than you think. Do I take on the girl with the most job experience, or the girl who shows drive and ambition? Do I bother interviewing the guy who says on his CV that he already has a PT job? What do I do with the guy who has absolutely no job experience AT ALL and is nearly 30?
My gut tells me to give the guy with no experience a chance at starting a career and a life. I have been unemployed, and I know how it feels going to interviews all the time, and getting a "no thanks". I know the painful mental bruising that one goes through each time, and here I was wielding the power to do this to 3 people.
My professional side tells me to go with the person who has more experience at operating tills and dealing with money. I'm slightly threatened by the girl who has ambition. (I'm the manager, and I don't want my new found authority challenged just yet thank you!)
As for the guy who already has a job... (!)
I don't know whether I preferred it when I was the one being interviewed.
Power, sometimes it goes to the head in more ways than one.
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