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Employers Want More Than On-the-Job Skills

November 6, 2007 11:15 AM

Interviews are changing as employers move beyond the "Tell us about yourself" approach and instead are immersing job applicants in corporate life. There are a variety of weeding out approaches -- Lindblad Expeditions, an adventure cruise company, mails job applicants a DVD that provides a view of the more unappealing aspects of the job, such as shots of a crew member cleaning toilets, rather than glossing over the downside of life aboard a ship; KaBoom, a nonprofit that builds playgrounds, sends prospective project managers to one of its four-day playground building trips; and Rackspace Managed Hosting keeps candidates in interviews for nine to 10 hours so that interviewers can really get to know the person. Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier said, "We're very cordial about it. We're not aggressive, but we haven't met a human being yet who has the stamina to BS us all day."