Unusual recruitment procedures

The standard hiring procedure is to interview the candidate, sometimes taking place in several stages. Often, testing or other methods of identifying the level of knowledge and skills of the applicant for the position are also added to the interview.

All of us have ever been interviewed, and some of us may have hired employees ourselves. Usual recruitment procedures are quite clear and familiar to us. However, there are companies that have decided to go far beyond the typical interview and have implemented unusual, and sometimes strange, hiring procedures into their hiring system.
Larry O’Toole, head of the Gentle Giant trucking company, uses a special method of testing the endurance of new employees, and even participates in it himself. Continue reading →